Rate My Professor Eliza Wu

Professor Eliza Wu serves as Associate Dean (Research Education) and Professor of Finance and Banking at the University of Sydney Business School in the Business & Economics faculty. She earned her PhD in Finance in 2005 and a joint Honours degree in Economics and Econometrics, BEc(Hons), in 2001, both from the University of New South Wales. Her academic career includes prior appointments as Associate Professor in the Finance Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney from 2011 to 2015 and Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales from 2005 to 2010. Before entering academia full-time, Wu worked in the Economics departments at the Reserve Bank of Australia and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific in Hong Kong. She currently leads as Head of the Discipline of Finance and Co-Director of the Business Financing and Banking Research Group at the University of Sydney, and she is a member of the China Studies Centre.

Wu specializes in credit markets, banking, corporate finance, international capital markets, and financial stability. Her research examines topics such as bank risk-taking, sovereign credit ratings, tournament incentives in acquisitions, bank lobbying, corporate social responsibility in mergers and acquisitions, and the impacts of trade reforms and tax changes on firm value and lending. She has authored over 130 publications, with works appearing in leading journals; notable publications include "International Corporate Finance: An Overview and Future Directions" (2025), "The bright side of bank lobbying: Evidence from the corporate loan market" (2024), "The price of corporate social irresponsibility in seasoned equity offerings: International evidence" (2024), "Tournament Incentives and Acquisition Performance" (2020), and "Funding liquidity and bank risk taking" (2017, Journal of Banking & Finance). Her scholarship has garnered over 4,500 citations on Google Scholar. Wu contributes to the field as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Stability and the British Accounting Review, and as a founding co-chair of the Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference. She engages in teaching finance courses, PhD supervision, and public discourse on banking stability and financial regulation.