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Professor Zhaoyong Zhang

Zhaoyong Zhang is a Professor of Finance and Economics in the School of Business and Law.

Key research areas

  • Monetary and financial market integration in East Asia
  • Real output co-movement
  • Exchange rate policy in the Chinese economy
  • International trade and finance
  • Financial market integration in East Asia
  • Foreign trade-FDI linkages associated with regional monetary integration
  • Exchange rate policy in the Chinese economy
  • Financial market and financial market integration in the Asia-Pacific region

Biography

Zhaoyong Zhang, obtained his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), currently is a Professor of Finance & Economics at The School of Business & Law at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia. He is also an IETE fellow.

He began at Edith Cowan University as a visiting Professor in 2005. Prior to joining the university, he was a Professor of Economics & Finance at NUCB Graduate School of Commerce & Business in Nagoya, Japan, and Associate Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS).

He also held several visiting positions at universities in China, Japan, Korea, Macau, and South Australia. Zhaoyong was (Deputy) Director for the Centre for the Study of Transitional Economics (CSTE) at NUS, Director of Social Sciences Research Centre for Contemporary China (SSRCCC) at University of Macau, and Co-Director of FEMARC, School of Accounting, Finance & Economics, Edith Cowan University.

Zhaoyong has served as Guest Editor and edited (co-edited) 7 special issues with the prestigious international journals including North American Journal of Economics & Finance, Papers in Regional Science, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, The World Economy and so on.

He also held several consulting positions with international institutions including OECD, IDRC and Hanns Seidel Foundation (Germany).

2015 - Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Certificate of Excellence for Achieving the Highest Number of Research Outputs Within a Faculty

2014 - Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Certificate of Excellence for Demonstrating Consistent and Sustained Research Excellence.

  • Guest Editor (with Professors D. Lien and K. Sato), The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (Elsevier). 2016-2017
  • Guest Editor (with Professor P. De Grauwe), Scottish Journal of Political Economy (John Wiley & Son). 2015-2016.
  • Member, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ)
  • Member, International Environmental Modelling and Simulation Society (IEMS)
  • Member, Asia-Pacific Economic Association (APEA)
  • Member, East Asian Economic Association (EAEA)
  • Member, Western Economic Association International (WEAI), USA
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