ZHANGXIN (FRANK) LIU

I am an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Western Australia Business School, where I also serve as Associate Director of International Relations. I completed my PhD in Finance at the University of Queensland, after dual degrees in Actuarial Studies and Finance (with First Class Honours) at the Australian National University.

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My research covers asset pricing, corporate finance, economic and financial history. Some of these projects have been running long enough that they are becoming economic history themselves.

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Teaching is the other half of the job and the half I find hardest to put down: I have received more than fifteen teaching awards since 2015, including a national AAUT citation in 2019.

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Away from the desk I play guitar, ukulele and piano, write my own songs, and take landscape and portrait photographs. I also collect watches and design them, which means I have spent several years perfecting an object that a cheap quartz movement already keeps better time than. I run a small not-for-profit as well.

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I am told this is a lot of interests for one person. I am told this mainly by co-authors waiting for a draft.