Dr Susanna Lu
Senior Lecturer in Finance, Undergraduate Convenor - Finance
Keywords
Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Culture; Finance; Financial Accounting; International Finance; Sustainability
Qualifications: PhD in Finance, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: MSB.2.30
Phone: +64 7 838 4973
Papers Taught
About Susanna
Dr. Susanna Lu is currently a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the School of Accounting, Finance, and Economics (SAFE) in Waikato Management School (WMS). She joined the University of Waikato in early 2015 after completing her PhD in Finance at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in 2014.
Her research interest lies primarily in the area of empirical corporate finance. She has published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, including British Accounting Review (ABDC-A*), and a number of ABDC-A journals such as Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance, Australian Journal of Management, International Journal of Managerial Finance, Advances in Accounting, among others.
She has taught a wide range of courses, including Introductory Finance, Capital Markets, Personal Financial Planning, International Corporate Finance/Multinational Financial Management, Advanced Corporate Finance, Derivative Securities, and Financial Risk Management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
She has extensive research supervision experience at Waikato and has successfully supervised a number of PhD and master students to completion.
She is the undergraduate convenor for Finance and was a member of the WMS Ethics Committee during 2017-2021.
Research Supervised
Susanna has successfully supervised three PhD students to completion at the University of Waikato.
-An investigation of the adoption of Islamic financing instruments by small and medium enterprises in the Sultanate of Oman, 2016-2019, completed.
-Determinants of capital structure adjustment speed: A cross-country analysis, 2017-2021, completed.
-Three essays on corporate governance, 2016-2021, completed;
She is also regularly supervising master student theses.
Research Interests
Empirical corporate finance, including corporate governance, boards of directors, managerial overconfidence, corporate innovation, capital structure and mergers and acquisitions.
Recent Publications
Almaskati, N., Bird, R., Yeung, D., & Lu, Y. (2021). A horse race of models and estimation methods for predicting bankruptcy. Advances in Accounting, 52, 18 pages. doi:10.1016/j.adiac.2021.100513
Huang, P., Lu, Y., & Faff, R. (2021). Social trust and the speed of corporate leverage adjustment: evidence from around the globe. Accounting and Finance, 61(2), 3261-3303. doi:10.1111/acfi.12701
Ho, L., Bai, M., Lu, Y., & Qin, Y. (2021). The effect of corporate sustainability performance on leverage adjustments. British Accounting Review, 53(5), 30 pages. doi:10.1016/j.bar.2021.100989
Ho, L., Lu, Y., & Bai, M. (2021). Liquidity and speed of leverage adjustment. Australian Journal of Management, 46(1), 76-109. doi:10.1177/0312896220918913
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