Dr Shunji Mei
Lecturer
School of Accounting and Finance
College of Business and Law
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr. Mei is a Lecturer in Finance at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining University of Adelaide, he was a Lecturer in Finance at University of Auckland and earned a PhD in Finance from the University 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.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 - ongoing | Senior Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| 2024 - ongoing | Lecturer in Finance | University of Adelaide |
| 2023 - 2024 | Lecturer in Finance | University of Auckland |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Queensland | Australia | PhD in Finance | |
| University of Queensland | Australia | Graduate Diploma in Business Research Method | |
| University of Queensland | Australia | Master of Commerce (Finance & Accounting) |
| Date | Title | Institution name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Chartered Financial Analyst (Level II) | CFA Institute | - |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Mei, S., Selvam, S., & Tan, K. J. K. (2025). Chained Innovation: Response to Customer Covenant Violations. |
| 2024 | Chen, G., Huang, R., Mei, S., & Tan, K. J. K. (2024). CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions. ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 36(1), 23 pages. Scopus5 WoS3 |
| 2024 | Lin, B., Mei, S., Tan, K. J. K., & Zhang, L. (2024). Do exchange traded funds affect corporate cash holdings?. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE & ACCOUNTING, 51(5-6), 1547-1592. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2024 | Chowdhury, H., Lin, B., Mei, S., Tan, K. J. K., & Zhang, L. (2024). Does Exchange-traded Fund Ownership Affect a Firm’s Expected Crash Risk?. European Accounting Review, 34(4), 1-33. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| - | Chowdhury, H., Hu, W., Mei, S., & Tan, K. J. K. (n.d.). More Time, More Risk: CEO Initial Contract Horizons and the Cost of Debt. |
| - | Chen, G., Huang, R., Mei, S., & Tan, K. J. K. (n.d.). Pressured to Perform: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment of Initial CEO Contract Length and M&As. SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| - | Mei, S., Huang, R., & Tan, K. J. K. (n.d.). Non-Executive Restricted Stock Grants, Knowledge Specificity, and Contribution Horizons. |
| - | Chowdhury, H., Hu, W., Mei, S., & Tan, K. J. K. (n.d.). The Dark Side of CEO Initial Contract Horizons: Evidence from Bank Loans and Public Bonds. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| - | Mei, S. (n.d.). Three essays on contracting and compensation. |
Corporate Finance