Dr Shunji Mei

 Dr Shunji Mei
 Position Lecturer
 Org Unit Finance and Banking
 Email shunji.mei@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 34541
 Location Floor/Room Twelfth Floor ,  10 Pulteney Street - Nexus 10 Tower ,   North Terrace
  • Biography/ Background

    Dr. Mei is a Lecturer in Finance at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide. Prior to joining ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, he was a Lecturer in Finance at ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Auckland and earned a PhD in Finance from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Queensland. Dr. Mei's broad research interest is corporate finance, such as corporate innovation, managerial compensation and contracting, financial technology, and mutual fund etc. His papers have been published in top journals, such as Organization Science (FT-50, UTD-24, A*), European Accounting Review (A*), and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (A*). His managerial contracting research paper has been featured in media, such as MIT Sloan Management Review. 

    His papers have also been presented at many prestigious finance conferences, including the Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, FMA Asia-Pacific Conference, Financial Institute Research Network (FIRN) Conference, Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA) Annual Meeting, Asian Finance Association (Asian FA) Conference, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC), etc. Additionally, he received the best paper award at the Asian FA conference.

  • Qualifications

    Ph.D. in Finance, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Queensland

    Graduate Diploma in Business Research Method, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Queensland

    Master of Commerce (Finance & Accounting), ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Queensland

  • Awards & Achievements

    2024 Research Excellence Award, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide

    2023 Rama Krishna Sastry Pappu Memorial Prize

    2023 Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Thesis

    2023 Research Development Fund, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Auckland

    2022 HDR Research Excellece Award Nomination

    2020 Award for Best Presentation at Research Colloquium

    2020 UQBS Data Collection Research Grant

    2019 Best Paper Award in Asian FA Conference

    2018 Thesis Publication Scheme Grants

    2018 Dean's Commendation for Academic Excellence

    2016, 2017, 2018 Teaching Excellence Awards 

     

  • Teaching Interests

    Corporate Finance

  • Research Interests

    Corporate Finance (Innovation, Managerial Compensation and Contracting, M&A, ETF, FinTech)

  • Publications

    Selected Publications:

    CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions (2025) (with Guoli Chen, Ronghong Huang & Kelvin Jui Keng Tan), Organization Science, 36(1), 65-87. (FT-50; UTD-24; ABDC A*)

    Does Exchange-Traded Fund Ownership Affect A Firm's Expected Crash Risk (2024) (with Hasibul Chowdhury, Beiqi Lin, Kelvin Jui Keng Tan & Lei Zhang), European Accounting Review, 1-33. (ABDC A*)

    Do Exchange-Traded Funds Affect Coprorate Cash Holdings? (2024) (with Beiqi Lin, Kelvin Jui Keng Tan & Lei Zhang), Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 51(5-6), 1547-1592. (ABDC A*)

     

  • Professional Associations

    Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level II passed

  • Community Engagement

    Invited review:

    AFAANZ conference 

     

    Ad-hoc journal review:

    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

    Internatinal Journal of Managerial Finance

    International Review of Financial Analysis

    European Journal of Finance

    Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics

    Accounting Research Journal

     

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Entry last updated: Wednesday, 19 Mar 2025

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