Associate Professor Xiaolu Hu
Details
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Department: Economics Finance & Marketing
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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xiaolu.hu@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0001-5052-891X
About
Xiaolu is an Associate Professor in Finance at the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing. Xiaolu joined RMIT in 2018 after receiving her PhD in finance at RMIT. Before completing her PhD, Xiaolu worked as a portfolio manager and credit rating analyst in leading organizations in China. Xiaolu acquired her Master's degree from Tsinghua University (PBC School of Finance) and her Bachelor's degree from the Central University of Economics and Finance. Her research areas are empirical corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, the bond market, machine learning and the Chinese capital market. She has published papers in leading journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, British Accounting Review and Energy Economics. Dr Hu has attracted more than $350,000 in internal and external research grants. She is partnered with several financial institutions and is also a CFA charterholder. Xiaolu is also the leader of the RMIT Financial Markets and Sustainability Group.
Awards:
- Best Paper Award 2023, AFAANZ Annual Conference
- Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, 2023
- Dean’s Education Award, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, 2022
- Outstanding Reviewer Award 2022, AFAANZ Annual Conference
- Rozetta Best Paper Prize at the 34th Australian Finance and Banking Conference, 2021
- Outstanding Teaching Recognition 2020-2021, School of EFM, RMIT University
Ad-hoc reviewer for A*/A journals: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Energy Economics, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Accounting & Finance; European Financial Management; International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, Economic Modelling, Australian Journal of Management, Journal of Clean Production, Journal of Accounting Literature.
Research fields
- 3502 Banking, finance and investment
- 3801 Applied economics
- 3501 Accounting, auditing and accountability
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 3802 Econometrics
- 4901 Applied mathematics
- 3504 Commercial services
Academic positions
- Associate Professor in Finance
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 1 Jan 2025 – Present
- Senior Lecturer in Finance
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2024
- Lecturer in Finance
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Mar 2018 – 31 Dec 2021
Non-academic positions
- Portfolio Manager
- Guosen Securities Company
- Fixed Income
- Beijing, China
- 1 Nov 2012 – 28 Feb 2015
- Credit Rating Analyst
- China Chengxin International, Moody's Affiliate
- Beijing, China
- 1 Jan 2011 – 31 Oct 2012
Supervisor projects
- The Impact of ESG Disclosure Quality on Firm Value in Australia's Financial and Energy Sectors: A Text Mining Approach
- 2 Dec 2025
- To what extent do fundamental dynamics affect longer-horizon volatility in equity markets? In search of effective volatility dynamics with an GARCH-MIDAS approach.
- 31 Oct 2025
- Credit risk components and CDS market reaction
- 24 Jan 2025
- The Impact of ESG Rating Divergence on Investment in Emerging Financial Markets: Evidence from China
- 18 Dec 2024
- Price of altruism in corporate bond market
- 5 Aug 2024
- Superannuation Under Scrutiny: Performance and Responses to the YFYS Test on Fees and Investment Strategies
- 17 Oct 2023
- The Impact of ESG Performance on Firm Value and the Enhancement of ESG Measurement
- 3 Aug 2023
- Network-Based Statistical Learning for Portfolio Risk Management
- 21 Nov 2022
- Peer Effect of CSR Disclosure: Applications of Textual Analysis
- 27 Aug 2021
- Machine Learning in the Evaluation of Mutual Fund Performance
- 4 Dec 2020
- Governance Mechanism for Financial Markets: Fund Concentration and Risk-Taking in Tournament
- 3 Dec 2020
- Essays on Peer Information Environment in Corporate Finance
- 6 Nov 2020
- Economic Links and Information Diffusion: The Australian Experience
- 21 Nov 2019
Teaching interests
Xiaolu started teaching in 2015, covering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate finance courses across Melbourne and Singapore:
- Derivatives and Risk Management
- Behavioural Finance
- Portfolio Management
- Investment Analysis
- Alternative Securities
- Investment Analysis
- International Finance
Research interests
Credit Rating, Fixed Income, Machine Learning, Empirical Asset Pricing, FinTech, Sustainable Finance
