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Faculty Profile

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FU Fangjian

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

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Education

2007 Ph.D. in Finance, University of Rochester
2004 M.A. in Applied Economics, University of Rochester
2001  M.Sc. in Finance, National University of Singapore
1997 B.A. in Economics, Peking University, Beijing

Current Position(s) Held

Jul 2015 - Now Associate Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
Jul 2016 -  Jun 2020  Academic Director, Master’s in Applied Finance (MAF) part-time program
Academic Director, Global Master’s in Finance (GMF) program
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
Jul 2007 -  Jun 2015 Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for research excellence (sponsored by the Lee Foundation), 2017-2018
  • Best Paper Award, Northern Finance Association 2014 Meetings (sponsored by the CFA Society), Ottawa, Canada. September 2014
  • Nomination for the Best Paper Award, 2011 Financial Management Association Meetings, Denver, USA, October 2011
  • JCP Investment Partners Research Prize for the Best Paper at the 2011 Finance Down Under Conference, The University of Melbourne, Australia, March 2011
  • Best Paper Award, the 16th conference on the theories and practices of securities and financial markets, Taiwan , December 2008
  • Dean's Teaching Honour List, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University , 2007 - 2008 & 2011 - 2012
  • Best paper Award, the 6th NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance, and Accounting (IEFA), Taiwan, May 2008
  • NYSE Student Travel Grant, Western Finance Association (sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange), June 2006
  • Best Paper Award (in the area of Investment), Eastern Finance Association (sponsored by American Association of Individual Investors), April 2006

Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Empirical Asset Pricing

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  1. "Seasoned Equity Offerings and Corporate Financial Management” by Michael BARCLAY, Fangjian FU, and Clifford SMITH, 2020, Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming.
  2. “Do Underwriters Compete in IPO Pricing?” By Evgeny LYANDRES, Fangjian FU and Xuenan LI, 2018. Management Science 64, pp. 925-954.
  3. “The Persistence of Long-Run Abnormal Returns Following Stock Repurchases and Offerings” by Fangjian FU and Sheng HUANG, 2016. Management Science 62, pp. 964-984.
  4. “Acquisitions Driven by Stock Overvaluation: Are They Good Deals?” by Fangjian FU, Leming LIN, and Micah OFFICER, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics 109, 24-39.
  5. "Overinvestment and the Operating Performance of SEO Firms", by Fangjian FU, 2010, Financial Management 39, 249-272
  6. "Idiosyncratic Risk and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns", by Fangjian FU, 2009, Journal of Financial Economics 91, 24-37
  7. "Stock Exchange Governance and Market Quality", by Fangjian FU, Chandrasekhar KRISHNAMURTI, and John SEQUEIRA, 2003 , Journal of Banking and Finance 27, 1859-1878

Research Advisor/ Co-research Advisor to

  1. XING Huaixiang (hxxing.2019[at]ckdba.smu.edu.sg), CKGSB
  2. RUAN Bing (bing.ruan.2019[at]dba.smu.edu.sg), SMU-ZJU DBA(A&F) 
  3. Zhang Xiaoyi (xiaoyizhang.2020[at]dba.smu.edu.sg), SMU-ZJU DBA(A&F) 
  4. YAO Shunyi, (shunyi.yao.2017[at]ckdba.smu.edu.sg), CKGSB-SMU DBA
  5. ZHANG Yue, (yue.zhang.2021[at]dba.smu.edu.sg), SMU-ZJU DBA(A&F)