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Associate Professor Chen Zheng serves in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Curtin University, where she holds the position of Associate Professor and Finance Postgraduate Course Lead. She is a researcher with expertise in banking, financial institutions, and corporate finance. Her academic contributions include supervising postgraduate students and leading finance courses at the postgraduate level. Zheng holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has progressed through roles at Curtin University, including as a senior lecturer.
Her research specializations include bank liquidity creation, FinTech adoption, corporate social responsibility, stock price crash risk, climate risk exposure, and the impacts of COVID-19 on financial institutions and microfinance efficiency. Key publications are 'The impact of COVID-19 on the efficiency of microfinance institutions' (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2021, 183 citations), 'The moderating role of capital on the relationship between bank liquidity creation and failure risk' (Journal of Banking & Finance, 2019, 126 citations), 'FinTech adoption in banks and their liquidity creation' (The British Accounting Review, 2024, 49 citations), 'What accounts for the effect of sustainability engagement on stock price crash risk during the COVID-19 pandemic—agency theory or legitimacy theory?' (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2024, 37 citations), 'Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation' (Journal of Financial Research, 2023, 25 citations), 'Artificial intelligence innovation and stock price crash risk' (Journal of Financial Research, 2025, 21 citations), and 'Social capital and bank liquidity hoarding' (Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2022, 16 citations). She has co-authored chapters in Fintech, Pandemic, and the Financial System and presented at conferences such as the Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference. Zheng's scholarship extends to teaching innovation, with publications on student engagement and blended learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (2023, 11 citations). She received the 2023 Curtin Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award for Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and an AFAANZ Research Grant for 'Leveraging Blended Learning to Promote Student Equity in Accounting and Finance Education.' Her Google Scholar profile records over 499 citations.
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