Professor Fangming Xu
MSc(Durham), PhD(Cass)
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Research interests
Fangming is a Professor of Finance and the Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Bristol Business School. His research primarily focuses on corporate finance, financial markets, and operations management, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, market anomalies, and supply chain management.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Supply Chain Finance Models and Applications
Supervisors
Essays on Real Options and Tail Risks
Supervisors
Essays on Corporate Alliances
Supervisors
Three essays on corporate governance and ESG investing
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/03/2023Shareholder Litigation Risk and Firms’ Choice of External Growth
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Contagious Stock Price Crashes Along the Supply Chain
Production and Operations Management
Acquiring Acquirers
Review of Finance
The effects of in-transit inventory financing on the capital-constrained supply chain
European Journal of Operational Research
Recent publications
02/05/2024Contagious Stock Price Crashes Along the Supply Chain
Production and Operations Management
Do Institutional Investors Process and Act Upon Information?
Review of Corporate Finance Studies
Can Real Options Explain the Skewness of Stock Returns?
Journal of Banking and Finance
Does Real Flexibility Help Firms Navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic?
British Accounting Review
Shareholder Litigation Risk and Firms’ Choice of External Growth
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis