Dr Leilei Tang

Senior Lecturer

Accounting and Finance

Personal statement

I previously held academic appointments at the University of Southampton and at CASS Business School. After finishing my PhD at the University of Southampton in 2001, I spent one and half years doing research on wagering markets and another two years on a credit scoring project with Scottish Widows funded by EPSRC. I also spent one year doing research on bank risk management at CASS from 2004 to 2005.

Publications

The explanatory power of trading volume and insider activity in a pari-mutuel betting market
Bruce Alistair, Johnson Johnnie, Tang Leilei
European Journal of Finance Vol 17, pp. 197-216 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2010.481468
Financial market can go mad: evidence of irrational behaviour during the South Sea Bubble
Dale Richard S, Johnson Johnnie, Tang Leilei
Economic History Review Vol 58, pp. 233-271 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00304.x
Does board diversity improve accounting conservatism? The moderating effects of board roles : evidence from a developed economy
Sabsombat Nuthawut, Smith Julia, Tang Leilei
Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance 2022 (2022)
Effects of investor sentiment and country governance on unexpected conditional volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from global stock markets
Hsu Yu-Lin, Tang Leilei
International Review of Financial Analysis Vol 82 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102186
Executive compensation in less regulated markets : the impact of debt monitoring
Marshall Andrew, Pinto Helena, Tang Leilei
European Journal of Finance Vol 25, pp. 1883-1918 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2019.1668448
Hedge fund incentives, management commitment and survivorship
Qiu Judy, Tang Leilei, Walter Ingo
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-018-0309-4

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Research interests

My research is in three main areas:

  • financial econometrics
  • credit scoring
  • decision-making in markets for state contingent claims

Projects

KTP - BIP Solutions
Andriosopoulos, Dimitris (Principal Investigator) Hillier, David (Co-investigator) Paudyal, Krishna (Co-investigator) Tang, Leilei (Co-investigator)
25-Jan-2016 - 24-Jan-2018

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