Staff profile

Yue joins Durham University Business School as a Career Development Fellow in Finance. He received his PhD in Finance from the University of Bath. His research interests lie in the areas of corporate finance and corporate governance, with a particular focus on product market competition, ESG, M&As, and climate change. His work has been featured in the ProMarket by University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Blue Sky Blog by Columbia Law School, and Oxford Business Law Blog.

Selected Working Papers

The Carbon Cost of Competitive Pressure (with Vesa Pursiainen and Hanwen Sun)

• Presentations: EUROFIDAI-ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting 2025, CEPR Climate Change and the Environment Symposium 2025, FMA Asia/Pacific Conference 2025, Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance 2025, GRASFI Annual Conference 2025, DGF German Finance Association Annual Meeting 2025, Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability Oxford Workshop 2025, Sustainability at Crossroads: the Edinburgh and International Review of Finance Conference 2025, Sabanci Business School Finance Workshop 2025, Shanghai-Edinburgh-London Green Finance Conference 2025, NTHU-UNSW-SMU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics 2025, Sustainability and Finance Conference 2025.

To Acquire or to Ally? Foreign Competition and Firm Boundary (with Hanwen Sun, Fangming Xu, and Chenjian Zhang)

• Award: China Financial Engineering Annual Conference 2023 Best Paper Award.

• Presentations: University of Southern Denmark Finance Workshop 2025, International Conference of the French Finance Association 2024, China Financial Engineering Annual Conference 2023, FMA Annual Meeting 2023, International Corporate Governance Conference 2023, Welsh Postgraduate Research Conference 2023, FMA European Conference 2023, EAA Annual Congress 2023, British Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference 2023, Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 2023, Loughborough University.

Competitive Pressure and ESG (with Vesa Pursiainen and Hanwen Sun)

• Presentations: FMA Asia/Pacific 2024, ZEW Ageing and Sustainable Finance Conference 2024, Women in Finance Warwick Workshop 2024, FIW-Research Conference 2024, CEPR and FGN-HSG Workshop 2024, Sustainability and Regulation Workshop 2023, FMA Annual Meeting 2022, GRASFI Annual Conference 2022, FMA European Conference 2022, Behavioural Finance Working Group Annual Conference 2022, EAA Annual Congress 2022, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2021, International Young Finance Scholar’s Conference 2021, Welsh Postgraduate Research Conference 2022, Central University of Finance and Economics, Durham University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Queen’s University Belfast, Renmin University of China, University of Aberdeen, University of Exeter, University of International Business and Economics, Wuhan University.

• Empirical Corporate Finance and Governance