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Dr Christine Guo

  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    As an Associate Professor at the Business School of Birkbeck College, University of London, Dr Guo is enthusiastic about her teaching and research in Financial Economics. She publishes in ABACUS, European Journal of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments, and Pacific Basin Finance Journal. She engages and spends time in the fields of market microstructure, asset pricing, stochastic differential equations, behavioural finance, financial market regulations and inflation targeting. One of Dr Guo's co-authored articles, entitled Constructing Asset Pricing Models with Specific Factor Loadings, has received the ABACUS Best Paper Award (https://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-social-scientist-wins-prestigious-abacus-manuscript-award-1) The paper identifies serious deficiencies in the procedures traditionally used by empirical researchers to assess the sensitivity of risky asset returns to commonly employed risk factors. Before joining the University of London, Dr Guo is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

    Dr Guo holds a PhD in Economics from Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Stephen Hall, with an MSc in Economics and Financial Economics and a BSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Nottingham, UK. Dr Guo receives systematic training in econometrics and advanced topics in this discipline from Professor Paul Newbold and Professor Steve Leybourne at the School of Economics of the University of Nottingham and Professor Stephen Hall from the University of Leicester.

    Dr Guo is available for PhD supervision.


    Administrative responsibilities

    • Chair of the Mitigating Circumstances Panel of the Business School
    • Programme Director of BSc Accounting and Finance
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Econometrics
    • Inflation targeting
    • Capital asset pricing model
    • Stochastic differential equations
    • Valuation of equity
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    PhD students:

    Dr Ike Ndu (2019)

    Yiteng Chiang (2015-)

    Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

    • EDISON CHIANG

    Teaching

    I contribute to the teaching of Financial Management (30 credit undergraduate module) and Financial Modeling (15 credit postgraduate module).

    Teaching modules

    • Principles of Investment Management (BUMN072H7)
    • Financial Management (BUMN145S5)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    Conference Item

    • Yu, Ellen Pei-yi and Guo, Qian and Luu, B.V. (2018) ESG transparency and firm value. 45rd Academy of International Business (UK & Ireland Chapter) Conference, Birmingham, 12th -15th April, 2018., 2018, Birmingham, UK