Zenghua Lu

Dr Zenghua Lu

Senior Lecturer

School of Economics

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr. Zen Lu is a Senior Lecturer in economics at the UniSA Business School. Zen teaches econometric courses and has a PhD in econometrics awarded by Monash University.His research interest includes hypothesis testing, modelling population heterogeneity, model selection, and applied labour economics. His research has led to publications in leading journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Econometric Reviews, Economics Letters and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. His research has been supported by Australian Research Council and the university.

Year Citation
2025 Dai, Z., Xu, L., Krishnamurti, C., & Lu, Z. (2025). Negative interest rates and shadow banking. The British Accounting Review, online, 101681.
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2023 Ma, Q., Xu, L., Anwar, S., & Lu, Z. (2023). Banking competition and the use of shadow credit: Evidence from lending marketplaces. Global Finance Journal, 58(100884), 1-24.
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2020 Lu, Z. H. (2020). An improved closed procedure for testing multiple hypotheses. Statistics in Medicine, 39(26), 3772-3786.
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2020 Lu, Z. H. (2020). Bahadur intercept with applications to one-sided testing. Statistical papers, 61(2), 645-658.
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2017 Lu, Z., & Zuo, A. (2017). Child disability, welfare payments, marital status and mothers’ labor supply: evidence from Australia. Cogent Economics and Finance, 5(1), 1-20.
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2016 Lu, Z. H. (2016). Extended maxT tests of one-sided hypotheses. Journal of the American statistical association, 111(513), 423-437.
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2012 Lu, Z. (2012). Halfline tests for multivariate one-sided alternatives. Computational statistics and data analysis, 57(1), 479-490.
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2010 Lu, Z., & Zuo, Z. A. (2010). Effects of a child's disability on affected female's labour supply in Australia. Australian economic papers, 49(3), 222-240.
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2009 Lu, Z. (2009). Covariate selection in mixture models with the censored response variable. Computational statistics and data analysis, 53(7), 2710-2723.
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2007 Deng, X., Lu, Z., & Cao, Z. (2007). Attrition patterns in a deversified student body: a case study. Ergo, 1(1), 15-25.
2007 Deng, X., Lu, Z., & Cao, Z. (2007). Attrition patterns in a diversified student body : A case study. Ergo.
2006 Lu, Z., & Brown, B. (2006). An exclusive regressors binary mixture model with an application to labour supply. Australian and New Zealand journal of statistics, 48(3), 321-333.
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2006 Lu, Z. (2006). The numerical evaluation of the probability density function of a quadratic form in normal variables. Computational statistics and data analysis, 51(3), 1986-1996.
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2004 Lu, Z., & King, M. (2004). A wald-type of quadratic parametric restrictions. Economics letters, 83(3), 359-364.
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2003 Smyth, R., & Lu, Z. (2003). Explaining total factor productivity growth in Chinese industry : the role of incentives, openness and ownership reform. Journal of International Economic Studies.
2002 Lu, Z., & King, M. (2002). Improving the numerical technique for computing the accumulated distribution of a quadratic form in normal variables. Econometric reviews, 21(2), 149-165.
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  • Efficient causal discovery from observational data, ARC - Discovery Projects, 19/06/2014 - 31/12/2017

Courses I teach

  • ECON 2007 Empirical Business Analysis (2025)
  • ECON 2007 Empirical Business Analysis (2024)
  • ECON 2015 UO Empirical Business Analysis (2024)
  • INFS 5130 Fundamentals of Data Analytics for Business (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Zhenmin Rao

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