Business School

Dr Leo Luong

Lecturer in Finance
School of Business
+61 7 344 31251
Room 328, Colin Clark Buildings (39), St. Lucia Campus
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Researcher biography

Leo is a Lecturer in Finance at UQ Business School. His research area is empirical corporate finance with a focus on corporate governance, innovation, institutional investors, crash risk, and climate finance. Leo's work has been published in finance journals including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Corporate Finance.

Leo is currently a member of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law Low and Negligible Risk (LNR) Ethics Committee.

Leo received his PhD in Finance from UNSW Business School. Before joining UQ in January 2019, he was a Lecturer in Finance at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Publications

Journal Articles (5)

Journal Articles

Balachandran, Balasingham, Duong, Huu Nhan, Luong, Hoang and Nguyen, Lily (2020). Does takeover activity affect stock price crash risk? Evidence from international M&A laws. Journal of Corporate Finance, 64 101697, 101697. doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101697
Dang, Tung Lam, Dang, Man, Hoang, Luong, Nguyen, Lily and Phan, Hoang Long (2019). Media coverage and stock price synchronicity. International Review of Financial Analysis, 67 101430, 101430. doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101430
Dang, Tung Lam, Faff, Robert, Luong, Hoang and Nguyen, Lily (2019). Individualistic cultures and crash risk. European Financial Management, 25 (3), 622-654. doi: 10.1111/eufm.12180
Luong, Hoang, Moshirian, Fariborz, Nguyen, Lily, Tian, Xuan and Zhang, Bohui (2017). How do foreign institutional investors enhance firm innovation?. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52 (4), 1449-1490. doi: 10.1017/S0022109017000497
Luong, Hoang Luong, Nguyen, Huong Giang (Lily) and Yin, Xiangkang (2015). When Is a Firm's Information Asymmetry Priced? The Role of Institutional Investors. International Review of Finance, 15 (1), 55-88. doi: 10.1111/irfi.12038