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 others. She 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. 

Links

•  Personal Web

Selected Publications

• Standing out from the crowd via CSR engagement: Evidence from non-fundamental-driven price pressure, with L. Gao and J. He, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

• How Do Stronger Creditor Rights Impact Corporate Acquisition Activity and Quality?, With M. Rainville and E. Unlu,2022, Journal of Banking and Finance 144, 106625

• Longs, Shorts, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, with P. Nezafet, T. Shen, and Q. Wang, 2022, Journal of Banking and Finance 138, 106410.

• Algorithmic Trading and Market Quality: International Evidence, with E. Boehmer and K. Fong, 2021, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 56: 2659 - 2688.
• Institutional Allocations in the Primary Market for Corporate Bonds, with S. Nikolova and L. Wang, 2020, Journal of Financial Economics  137: 470-490. 
• What Do Short Sellers Know?, with E. Boehmer, C. Jones, and X. Zhang, 2020 Review of Finance 24, 1203-1235.
  • First prize in the Spängler-IQAM award for the Best Investments Paper in Review of Finance, 2021
• Short Selling and Market Anomalies, with A. Zhang, 2019, Journal of Financial Markets, 46.
• Vote Avoidance and Shareholder Voting in Mergers and Acquisitions, with K. Li and T. Liu, 2018, Review of Financial Studies 31: 3176-3211. 
• Earnings Attribution and Information Transfers, with D. Koo and E. Yeung, 2017, Contemporary Accounting Research 34: 1547–1579.
• Equity Short Selling and Bond Downgrades, with T. Henry and D. Kisgen, 2015, Journal of Financial Intermediation 24:89-111.
• Merger Arbitrage Short Selling and Price Pressure, with T. Liu, 2014, Journal of Corporate Finance 27: 36-54.
• High Short Interest Effect and Aggregate Volatility Risk, with A. Barinov, 2014, Journal of Financial Markets 21: 98-122.
• Short Selling and the Price Discovery Process, with E. Boehmer, 2013, Review of Financial Studies 26: 287-322. [Lead article]
  • Runner Up prize for the Review of Financial Studies Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award, 2014

   

   
  More papers on my SSRN page

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)