Limin Xu

Research Interests

Finance

Dr Limin Xu

Senior Lecturer

School of Accounting and Finance

College of Business and Law

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

Empirical Research in Corporate Finance: Corporate Governance, Corporate Hedging and Risk Management Policy, Stakeholder Relationship, Executive Compensation, and Housing Market.  His research has been published in top-tier finance and accounting journals such as The Accounting Review and  Review of Finance. 

Date Position Institution name
2021 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
Nanyang Business School Singapore PhD

Year Citation
2025 Cumming, D., Lu, F., Xu, L., & Yu, C. -F. (2025). Does stakeholder orientation mitigate shareholder-employee conflicts? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Journal of Corporate Finance, 91, 102736.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2024 Cumming, D. J., Sun, R., Xu, L., & Yu, C. -F. J. (2024). Weather-Induced Positive Sentiment and Insider Trading.
2024 Sun, R., Xu, L., & Yu, C. -F. J. (2024). Hot Under the Collar: Impacts of Extreme Heat on Financial Consumer Complaints.
2024 Obaydin, I., Xu, L., & Zurbruegg, R. (2024). The unintended cost of data breach notification laws: Evidence from managerial bad news hoarding. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 51(9-10), 2709-2736.
DOI Scopus7 WoS5
2024 Cumming, D., Lu, F., Xu, L., & Yu, C. -F. (2024). Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans. Journal of Business Ethics, 195(3), 579-598.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2022 Bai, M., Li, S., Xu, L., & Yu, C. -F. J. (2022). How do overconfident CEOs respond to regulation fair disclosure? Evidence from financial report readability. Finance Research Letters, 50, 103349.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2020 Brockman, P., Luo, J., & Xu, L. (2020). The impact of short-selling pressure on corporate employee relations. Journal of Corporate Finance, 64, 1-21.
DOI Scopus34 WoS31
2020 Bai, M., Xu, L., Chia-Feng, Y., & Zurbruegg, R. (2020). Superstition and stock price crash risk. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 60, 19 pages.
DOI Scopus13 WoS11
2020 Xu, L., Yu, C. -F. J., & Zurbruegg, R. (2020). The benefit of being a local leader: Evidence from firm-specific stock price crash risk. Journal of Corporate Finance, 65, 1-21.
DOI Scopus15 WoS13
2019 Kang, J. -K., & Xu, L. (2019). Executive stock ownership guidelines and debtholder wealth. The Accounting Review, 94(2), 267-295.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
2017 Luo, J., Xu, L., & Zurbrugg, R. (2017). The impact of housing wealth on stock liquidity. Review of Finance, 21(6), 2315-2352.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
- Gan, Q., Liu, Y., Luo, J., & Xu, L. (n.d.). Salience-Induced Attention Spillover and Investors’ Response to Analyst Forecast Revisions.

Year Citation
2021 Cumming, D. J., Lu, F., Xu, L., & Yu, C. -F. J. (2021). Do Firms Shift Risk to Employees in Uncertain Times? Evidence from Corporate Pension Plans.
2021 Obaydin, I., Xu, L., & Zurbruegg, R. (2021). The Unintended Cost of Data Breach Notification Laws: Evidence from Managerial Bad News Hoarding.
2020 Li, M., Luo, J., Xu, L., & Zurbruegg, R. (2020). A Hidden Consequence of Share Pledge Business.
2018 Kang, J. -K., Xu, L., & Zhang, L. (2018). Supplier-Customer Relationships and Corporate Hedging Policy.

Business Finance, Corporate Finance, Real Estate Valuation and Investment

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor Impact of ESG on the stock prices of listed companies from investor sentiment perspective Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Sijie Weng

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Three Essays on Corporate Finance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Rui Sun
2023 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Are ESG Controversies Fueling Inventors’ Job-Hopping? Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Xiaohang Yao
2021 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Three Essays on Corporate Finance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yanlin Liu
2021 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Essays on Corporate Finance Policies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Adam Paul Mumme
2020 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect Corporate Pension Plans? Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Fanyu Lu
2020 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Do overconfident CEOs face a disadvantage in the managerial
job market?		 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Harper Ding
2019 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Does Firm-Level Political Risk affect Mergers and Acquisitions? Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Yanlin Liu
2019 - 2020 Co-Supervisor The bright side of belief dispersion within TMTs Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Shihe Li

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