Faculty Profile for Dr. Yifan Liu

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Dr. Yifan Liu
Assistant Professor — Finance & Economics
MCOY 513
phone: (512) 245-3310

Biography Section

Teaching Interests

Corporate Finance and Financial Analytics; R and C++ Programming

Research Interests

Corporate Finance, Cryptocurrency, and Behavioral Finance

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Liu, Y., & Piccotti, L. (n.d.). Synthetic Long Stock and Option Trading: Evidence from Stock Splits. Journal of Financial Research.
  • Liu, Y., Chiou, I., & Sallehu, M. (2023). The effect of Intangible Resources on Selling, General, and Administrative Cost Behavior of  Young and Established Firms. North American Accounting Studies.
  • Liu, Y., Boubaker, S., Ftiti, Z., & Louhichi, W. (2023). Opioid Crisis Effects on Local Firms’ Risk. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.
  • You, L., & Liu, Y. (2023). Does the Market Reward Firms for Being More Green or Less Brown? Journal of Economics and Finance.
  • Popova, I. T., & Liu, Y. (2023). Threats to Central Bank Independence and Exchange Rate Volatility: High-Frequency Identification with Trump’s Fed Tweets. Finance Research Letters, 53.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Excellence Award. 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. 2019

Selected Grants

  • Liu, Yifan. McCoy College Dean’s Summer Research Stipend, McCoy College of Business, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: 2023). Grant.
  • Fox, Corey J (Co-Principal), Liu, Yifan (Co-Principal), You, Leyuan (Co-Principal). McCoy Faculty Development Research Grant, McCoy College of Business, Texas State University, $3000. (Funded: 2021 - 2022). Grant.
  • Liu, Yifan. Scholarship & Teaching Excellence Program Fund, Texas State University, Texas State University, $600. (Funded: 2021). Grant.
  • Liu, Yifan. Summer Research Funding, McCoy College of Business, Texas State University, $10000. (Funded: 2021). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Texas Farm Bureau
July 2020-Present
Graduate Advisor
MS Finance and Economics Society
October 2020-2021
Member
Finance Curriculum Committee
October 2020-August 2021
Organizer
Library Liason
September 1, 2021-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Commodity Markets
2023-2023