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Julie Wu

Associate Professor of Finance
Finance
HLH 425 T
P.O. Box 880490
Lincoln, NE 68588-0490
juliewu@unl.edu
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Education
Ph.D.,   Finance,  Texas A&M University
Areas of Expertise
  • Capital markets
  • Short selling
  • Market microstructure
  • ESG
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  • Learner
  • Analytical
  • Responsibility
Biography

Dr. Julie Wu earned her Ph.D. in Finance from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. She comes to College of Business from the University of Georgia, where she was an assistant professor of finance in the Terry College of Business. 

Dr. Wu is interested in what affects information processing in the financial market and its implications on corporate decisions. She has published in Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, among othersShe and her co-author received first prize in the Spängler-IQAM award for the Best Investments Paper for "What do short sellers know?" in 2021 and runner-up prize for the Review of Financial Studies Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award for "Short selling and the price discovery process" in 2014. 

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Selected Publications
Graduate Courses
  • Finance seminar (PhD)
Undergraduate Courses
  • Investment Principles (Undergraduate)
    • Associate Editor, The Financial Review, 2023 - Present
    • Discussant, Northern Finance Association, 2023
    • Discussant, Financial Management Association, 2021, 2020, 2012
    • Discussant, China International Conference in Finance, 2021
    • Program Committee, Dayton Summer Finance Workshop 2020
    • Discussant, SFS Cavalcade North America, 2019
    • Program Committee, Midwest Finance Association, 2019, 2008
    • Program Committee, Financial Management Association, 2020, 2019
    • Discussant, Fixed Income and Financial Institutions Conference 2017
    • External grant proposal reviewer for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2016, 2015, 2013
    • Discussant, Vanderbilt Conference on Institutional Investors and Price Efficiency, 2013
    • Discussant, NBER Microstructure meeting, 2008

 

Selected Awards
  • Distinguished Research Award, College of Business, UNL, 2023
  • Semifinalist for Best Paper Award at the FMA, 2022
  • First prize in the Spängler-IQAM award for the Best Investments Paper in Review of Finance, 2021
  • Distinguished Research Award, College of Business, UNL, 2019
  • Runner Up prize for the Review of Financial Studies Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award, 2014
Selected Media Coverage
  • Spear’s Magazine (4/27/2021) “Three reasons why we need short sellers” by Anna Soloman (https://spearswms.com/short-sellers-three-reasons/)
  • The Street (2/21/2021) “How to Short Stocks the Right Way” by Doug Kass (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/when-short-selling-is-done-right)
  • Safkhet Capital Management letter to German regulators featured in Business Insider (2019) (https://www.businessinsider.com/fahmi-quadir-posts-takedown-of-germanys-ban-on-short-selling-wirecard-2019-3)
  • Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (2017) (https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?s=corporate+goodness)
  • Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (2016) (https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/09/20/shareholder-approval-in-ma/)
  • New Yorker (2015) (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/new-ways-to-crash-the-market)