Yu Liu, Phd, CFA Curriculum Vitae (02/15/2015) Cell: (915) 248-9157 Email: Yliu4@Utep.Edu Website

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Yu Liu, PhD, CFA Curriculum Vitae (02/15/2015) Cell: (915) 248-9157 Email: [email protected] Website: https://sites.google.com/site/catherineyuliu/home

EDUCATION

 PhD, Economics, University of Alabama, Received in Aug 2008  MS, Finance, University of Alabama, Received in Aug 2006  MA, Economics, University of Alabama, Received in Aug 2005  BA, Economics, Renmin University of China, Received in July 2001

WORKING EXPERIENCE

 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX (09/2009 – present)  Transfer Pricing Economist, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Atlanta, GA (06/2008 – 07/2009)  Auditor and Business Adviser, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Beijing, China (08/2001 – 07/2003)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation (12/2014 – now)

PUBLICATIONS

 CFO Gender and Earnings Management: Evidence from China (Yu Liu, Eddie Wei, Feixue Xie) 2015. Forthcoming at Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

 The effects of Neoliberalism on China’s environment over time: a Macromarketing perspective (Juanjuan Xu, Edward Ramirez, Zhenning Xu and Yu Liu) 2015. Forthcoming at Journal of Macromarketing

 Board independence and firm performance in China (Yu Liu, Mihail K. Miletkov, Zuobao Wei and Tina Yang) 2015. Journal of Corporate Finance, 30, 223-244.

 Do Women Directors Improve Firm Performance in China? (Yu Liu, Eddie Wei, Feixue Xie) 2014. Journal of Corporate Finance, 28, 169-184.

 Gasoline Price Predictability in a Border Metropolitan Economy (Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Alan Jimenez, Yu Liu and Adam G. Walke) 2014. Applied Economics Letters, 22(6), 169-184.

 Revisit Inflation: New Evidence from Modified Unit Root Tests (Walter Enders and Yu Liu) 2014. International Journal of Applied Economics, 11(2), 1-9. Lead Article.

 Assessing the Impacts of Labor Market and Deterrence Variables on Homicide Rates in Mexico (Yu Liu, Tom Fullerton and Nathan Ashby) 2013, Contemporary Economic Policy, 31(4), 669-690.

 Forecasting the Real Exchange Rates Behavior: An Investigation of Nonlinear Competing Models (Yu Liu and Ruxandra Prodan) 2012. Southwestern Journal of Economics, 11(2), 3-20. Lead Article

 The 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games Announcements and Chinese Stock Market Responses (Yu Liu) 2011. International Journal of Applied Economics, 8(2), 43-62.

 Forecasting Transnational Terrorism and Other Series with an Unknown Number of Structural Breaks (Walter Enders, Yu Liu and Ruxandra Prodan) 2009. Defense & Peace Economics 20(6), 441-463.

PAPERS UNDER REVISION

 Evidence from Mexico on Social Status and Violence against Women (Yu Liu and Tom Fullerton, Jr.) Revising for Resubmit at Applied Economics

WORKING PAPERS

 The Comparative Performance of Alternative Out-of-sample Predictability Tests with Non-linear Models (Yu Liu, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy and Ruxandra Prodan)

DISSERTATION

 Title: Essays on Forecasting and Unit Root  Dissertation Committee: Walter Enders (Chair), Jun Ma, Billy Helms, Junsoo Lee, Michael Hardin

2 RESEARCH INTERESTS

 Corporate Governance  Economics of Crimes

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

th  2013 88 Western Economic Association, Seattle, WA. nd  2012 82 Annual Meetings of Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA th  2012 87 Western Economic Association, San Francisco, CA. st  2011 81 Annual Meetings of Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC th  2011 38 Annual Meeting of the Federation of Business Disciplines, Houston, TX th  2011 75 Annual Conference of the Midwest Economics Association, St Louis, MO th  2010 90 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Economics Association, Houston, TX th  2007 27 Forecasting Symposium on Forecasting, New York, NY th  2006 76 Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, Charleston, NC th  2006 14 Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, St Louis, MO

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, University of Texas at El Paso  Global Economics Environment for Managers–ECON 5360  Applied International Economics –ECON 5361  International Economics –ECON 4325  Panel Data and Discrete Choice Models–ECON 5372  Financial Econometrics I–IBUS 6350  Financial Econometrics II–IBUS 6360

Instructor, University of Alabama  Principles of Microeconomics-EC 110  Principles of Macroeconomics-EC 111  Intermediate Macroeconomics-EC 309  International Finance-EC/FI 431/531

TEACHING AWARD

 Excellence in Graduate Instruction-Economics and Finance-2012  Excellence in Graduate Instruction-Economics and Finance-2013

3 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 Member of MBA Committee  Library Collection Development Liaison

AD HOC REVIEWERS

 International Journal of Conflict Management  Journal of Economics  Journal of Empirical Finance  The Financial Review  Emerging Markets Finance and Trade  Journal of Asia-Pacific Business  The Feminist Economics

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 Member, American Financial Association, 2014-Present  Member, Financial Management Associate, 2014-Present  Member, Southwestern Economic Association International, 2010-Present  Member, Southern Economics Association, 2012 - Present  Member, Midwest Economics Association, 2010 – 2011  Member, American Economic Association, 2010 - 2012  Member, Chinese Economists Society, 2009 - 2010

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

 Undergraduate Research Initiatives Grant, University of Texas at El Paso (2014)  University Research Institute Grant, University of Texas at El Paso (2010)  Assistantships from Department of Economics, Alabama University (2004-2007)  Graduate School Scholarships, Alabama University (2003)