Andrea Lu

Andrea Lu is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, a position she has held since joining the university in 2014. She earned her PhD in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2014, following an MA in Economics in 2009 and a BCA with first-class honours in Economics and Finance in 2007, both from Victoria University of Wellington. In addition to her academic role, she serves as Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Business and Economics, where she is responsible for developing and implementing the faculty's global engagement strategy, managing international partnerships and collaborations, and enhancing the faculty's international standing and contributions. She also acts as Program Director for the Master of Management (Finance) program and Vice President of the Financial Research Network (FIRN), Australia's financial research network.

Associate Professor Lu's research specializations include empirical asset pricing, financial market frictions, and international finance. Her scholarship has appeared in leading finance journals, including Management Science, Journal of Empirical Finance, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, and Energy Economics. Notable publications encompass 'Investor Sentiment and the Pricing of Macro Risk for Hedge Funds' (Management Science, 2025, with Zhuo Chen and Xiaoquan Zhu), 'Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from International Stock Markets' (Journal of Empirical Finance, 2024, with Zhuo Chen, Jinyu Liu, and Libin Tao), 'A Market-based Funding Liquidity Measure' (Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2019, with Zhuo Chen), 'Seeing the Unobservable from the Invisible: the Role of CO2 in Measuring Consumption Risk' (Review of Finance, 2018, with Zhuo Chen), 'Slow Diffusion of Information and Price Momentum in Stocks: Evidence from Options Markets' (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2017, with Zhuo Chen), 'Growing Pains: International Instability and Equity Market Returns' (Financial Management, 2017, with Zhuo Chen and Zhuqing Yang), and 'The Role of Storage in a Competitive Electricity Market and the Effects of Climate Change' (Energy Economics, 2013, with Lewis Evans and Graeme Guthrie). She also co-authored the book 'Forest Valuation under Carbon Pricing: A Real Options Approach' (VDM Verlag, 2009). Her research has garnered several awards, such as the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition award, PanAgora Crowell Memorial Prize Finalist, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference PhD Forum Best Paper Second Prize, and Mirae Asset Securities Co., Ltd. Outstanding Paper Award.

Professional Email: andrea.lu@unimelb.edu.au