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     Zou, Zhentao  | 
    
    
     Assistant Professor  | 
    
    
     Department of Finance  | 
    
    
     Email: zhentao_zou@163.com  | 
    
    
     Phone : +0086 17762438320  | 
    
    
     PhD, Finance, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China (2018)  | 
    
    
     B.A., Mathematics, Nanjing University (2013)  | 
    
   
  
  
  
 TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS
 Ÿ Teaching courses: fixed income securities, time series analysis, mathematics on financial engineering, topics in financial economics 
 Ÿ Research Areas : dynamic corporate finance, asset pricing
  
 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
 Ÿ Assistant Professor, Wuhan University, 2018-present
  
 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  
 Journal Papers (International)
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu, Siqi Zhao and Zhentao Zou, 2021. Endogenous Discounting, Investment and Asset Pricing. International Journal of Finance and Economics, forthcoming.
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2021. Investment Decisions under Incomplete Markets in the Presence of Wealth Effects. Journal of Economics, 133: 167-189.
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu, Yaoyao Wu and Zhentao Zou, 2021. Irreversible Investment, Asset Returns, and Time-Inconsistent Preferences. European Journal of Finance, 27: 706-720. 
 Ÿ Fan Hu, Fan Zhang and Zhentao Zou, 2020. R&D Investment under Time-Inconsistent Preferences. Economics Letters, 197: 109620.
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2020. Robust Contracts with One-Sided Commitment. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 117: 103942.
 Ÿ Bo Liu, Yingjie Niu, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2020. Time-Varying Risk of Rare Disasters, Investment and Asset Pricing. The Financial Review, 55: 503-524.
 Ÿ Bo Liu, Jiangyuan Li, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2020. Hedge Fund’s Dynamic Leverage Decisions under Time-Inconsistent Preferences. European Journal of Operational Research, 284: 779-791.
 Ÿ Zhentao Zou, 2020. Optimal dividend-distribution strategy under ambiguity aversion. Operations Research Letters, 48: 435-440.
 Ÿ Fengjun Liu, Yingjie Niu and Zhentao Zou, 2020. Incomplete markets, Knightian uncertainty and high-water marks. Operations Research Letters, 48: 195-201.
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu and Zhentao Zou, 2019. Corporate Investment, Tobin’s Q and Liquidity Management under Time-Inconsistent Preferences. Annals of Economics and Finance, 20: 721-736.
 Ÿ Jiangyuan Li, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2019. Compensation and Risk: A Perspective on the Lake Wobegon Effect. Journal of Banking and Finance, 108: 105626.
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2019. Dynamic Agency and Investment Theory under Model Uncertainty. International Review of Finance, 19: 447-458.
 Ÿ Yingjie Niu, Lei Zhou and Zhentao Zou, 2019. A Model of Capacity Choice under Knightian Uncertainty. Economics Letters, 174: 189-194.
 Ÿ Jianjun Du, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2018. Investment and Exit under Uncertainty with Utility from Anticipation. International Review of Finance, 18: 359-377.
 Ÿ Yaoyao Wu, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2018. Ambiguity Sharing and the Lack of Relative Performance Evaluation. Economic Theory, 66: 141-157.
 Ÿ Yaoyao Wu, Jinqiang Yang and Zhentao Zou, 2017. Dynamic Corporate Investment and Liquidity Management under Model Uncertainty. Economics Letters, 155: 9-13.  
  
 RESEARCH GRANTS
  
 Government-funded grants
 Ÿ 2021-2023 Grant No. 72003142, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)