Dr Yukun Shi
- Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance with Data Analytics (Accounting & Finance)
telephone:
01413304501
email:
Yukun.Shi@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Yukun joined the Adam Smith Business School in April 2018 as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance with Data Analytics. Prior to coming to Glasgow, he taught at the University of Leicester and Middlesex University. He holds a PhD in Finance from Durham University and is a CFA Charterholder. Yukun is also an academic consultant in Moody’s Analytics.
Research interests
- Asset Pricing
- Corporate Finance
- Energy and Environmental Economics and Finance
- Quantitative Finance
Publications
2025
Jiang, Z., Shi, Y. and Xing, L. (2025) Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Journal of Empirical Finance, 81, 101582. (doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2025.101582)
2024
Wang, Z., Zhang, T., Ren, X. and Shi, Y. (2024) AI adoption rate and corporate green innovation efficiency: evidence from Chinese energy companies. Energy Economics, 132, 107499. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107499)
Shi, Y. and Zhu, K. (2024) Unraveling the impact of bank loan spread on corporate innovation: evidence from China. Economic Modelling, 130, 106559. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106559)
2023
Jia, Z., Li, D., Shi, Y. and Xing, L. (2023) Firm-level media coverage, bank loans, and the role of institutional environments. Journal of Corporate Finance, 83, 102491. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2023.102491)
Ding, R., Shi, Y. and Zhou, H. (2023) Social media coverage and post-earnings announcement drift: evidence from seeking alpha. European Journal of Finance, 29(2), pp. 207-227. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2021.2022508)
Dong, K., Zhao, J., Ren, X. and Shi, Y. (2023) Environmental regulation, human capital, and pollutant emissions: the case of SO2 emissions for China. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 21(1), pp. 111-135. (doi: 10.1080/14765284.2022.2106539)
2022
Shi, Y. , Chen, D., Guo, B., Xu, Y. and Yan, C. (2022) The information content of CDS implied volatility and associated trading strategies. International Review of Financial Analysis, 83, 102295. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102295)
Shi, Y. , Stasinakis, C. , Xu, Y., Yan, C. and Zhang, X. (2022) Stock price default boundary: A Black-Cox model approach. International Review of Financial Analysis, 83, 102284. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102284)
Zhou, D., Liu, Y., Ren, X., Yan, C. and Shi, Y. (2022) Economic agglomeration and product quality upgrading: evidence from China. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 20(4), pp. 377-395. (doi: 10.1080/14765284.2021.1985933)
Ren, X., Li, J. and Shi, Y. (2022) Can digital economic attention spillover to financial markets? Evidence from the time-varying Granger test. Journal of Digital Economy, 1(2), pp. 102-116. (doi: 10.1016/j.jdec.2022.11.002)
Li, D., Shi, Y. , Xu, L., Xu, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2022) Dynamic asymmetric dependence and portfolio management in cryptocurrency markets. Finance Research Letters, 48, 102829. (doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.102829)
Yuan, G. X., Yan, C., Zhou, Y., Liu, H., Qian, G. and Shi, Y. (2022) Credit risk analysis of Chinese companies by applying the CAFÉ Approach. In: Wang, Y., Zhu, G., Han, Q., Zhang, L., Song, X. and Lu, Z. (eds.) Data Science: 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022, Chengdu, China, August 19–22, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. Series: Communications in computer and information science (1629). Springer: Singapore, pp. 475-502. ISBN 9789811952081 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-5209-8_33)
Pang, Y., Shi, S., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2022) A nonlinear dynamic approach to cash flow forecasting. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 59(1), pp. 205-237. (doi: 10.1007/s11156-022-01066-8)
Shi, Y. , Stasinakis, C. , Xu, Y. and Yan, C. (2022) Market co-movement between credit default swap curves and option volatility surfaces. International Review of Financial Analysis, 82, 102192. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102192)
He, Z., Guo, B., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2022) Natural disasters and CSR: Evidence from China. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 73, 101777. (doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2022.101777)
Yang, J., Guariglia, A., Peng, Y. and Shi, Y. (2022) Inventory investment and the choice of financing: does financial development play a role? Journal of Corporate Finance, 74, 102139. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102139)
Ren, X., Duan, K., Tao, L., Shi, Y. and Yan, C. (2022) Carbon prices forecasting in quantiles. Energy Economics, 108, 105862. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105862)
Liu, P., Peng, Y., Shi, Y. and Yang, J. (2022) Financial structures, political risk and economic growth. European Journal of Finance, 28(4-5), pp. 356-376. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2021.1879888)
Ren, X., Shi, Y. and Jin, C. (2022) Climate policy uncertainty and corporate investment: evidence from the Chinese energy industry. Carbon Neutrality, 1, 14. (doi: 10.1007/s43979-022-00008-6)
2021
Yang, G., Huang, R., Shi, Y. and Jia, Z. (2021) Does a CEO's private reputation impede corporate governance? Economic Modelling, 104, 105640. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105640)
Duan, K., Ren, X., Shi, Y. , Mishra, T. and Yan, C. (2021) The marginal impacts of energy prices on carbon price variations: evidence from a quantile-on-quantile approach. Energy Economics, 95, 105131. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105131)
Fang, Y., Jing, Z., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2021) Financial spillovers and spillbacks: new evidence from China and G7 countries. Economic Modelling, 94, pp. 184-200. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.09.022)
Shi, S. and Shi, Y. (2021) Bitcoin futures: trade it or ban it? European Journal of Finance, 27(4-5), pp. 381-396. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2019.1647865)
2020
Zhao, N., Shi, Y. , Sun, Y. and Miao, J. (2020) Aggregate labor market fluctuations under news shocks. Economic Modelling, 90, pp. 397-405. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.12.018)
Xu, L., Gao, H., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2020) The heterogeneous volume-volatility relations in the exchange-traded fund market: evidence from China. Economic Modelling, 85, pp. 400-408. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.11.019)
Hu, H., Prokop, J., Shi, Y. and Trautwein, H.-M. (2020) The rating spillover from banks to sovereigns: an empirical investigation across the European Union. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 64, 101161. (doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2019.101161)
Gao, H., Shen, Z., Li, Y., Mao, X. and Shi, Y. (2020) Institutional investors, real earnings management and cost of equity: Evidence from listed high-tech firms in China. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 56(14), pp. 3490-3506. (doi: 10.1080/1540496x.2019.1650348)
Guo, B., Shi, Y. and Xu, Y. (2020) Volatility information difference between CDS, options, and the cross section of options returns. Quantitative Finance, 20(12), pp. 2025-2036. (doi: 10.1080/14697688.2020.1814018)
Jia, Z., Shi, Y. , Yan, C. and Duygun, M. (2020) Bankruptcy prediction with financial systemic risk. European Journal of Finance, 26(7-8), pp. 666-690. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2019.1656095)
Shi, Y. , Paramati, S. R. and Ren, X. (2020) The growth of carbon markets in Asia: the potential challenges for future development. In: Huang, B. and Yu, E. (eds.) Ways to Achieve Green Asia. ADBI, pp. 125-152. ISBN 9784899742111
2019
Yan, D., Kong, Y., Ye, B., Shi, Y. and Zeng, X. (2019) Spatial variation of energy efficiency based on a Super-Slack-Based Measure: Evidence from 104 resource-based cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 240, 117669. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117669)
Paramati, S. R., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2019) Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Economic Development in the People's Republic of China: The Role of Renewable Energy across Provinces. ADBI Working Paper 1050. [Research Reports or Papers]
Yan, D., Kong, Y., Ren, X., Shi, Y. and Chiang, S. (2019) The determinants of urban sustainability in Chinese resource-based cities: A panel quantile regression approach. Science of the Total Environment, 686, pp. 1210-1219. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.386)
Ren, X., Lu, Z., Cheng, C., Shi, Y. and Shen, J. (2019) On dynamic linkages of the state natural gas markets in the USA: evidence from an empirical spatio-temporal network quantile analysis. Energy Economics, 80, pp. 234-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.01.001)
Shi, Y. , Zhang, H., Xu, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2019) The term structure of option-implied volatility and future realized volatility. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 55(13), pp. 2997-3022. (doi: 10.1080/1540496X.2019.1612360)
2018
Cheng, C., Ren, X., Wang, Z. and Shi, Y. (2018) The impacts of non-fossil energy, economic growth, energy consumption, and oil price on carbon intensity: evidence from a panel quantile regression analysis of EU 28. Sustainability, 10(11), 4067. (doi: 10.3390/su10114067)
Kutan, A. M., Shi, Y. , Wei, M. and Zhao, Y. (2018) Does the introduction of index futures stabilize stock markets? Further evidence from emerging markets. International Review of Economics and Finance, 57, pp. 183-197. (doi: 10.1016/j.iref.2018.01.003)
Yan, D., Lei, Y., Shi, Y. , Zhu, Q., Li, L. and Zhang, Z. (2018) Evolution of the spatiotemporal pattern of PM2.5 concentrations in China – a case study from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Atmospheric Environment, 183, pp. 225-233. (doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.03.041)
Zhao, Y., Stasinakis, C. , Sermpinis, G. and Shi, Y. (2018) Neural network copula portfolio optimization for exchange traded funds. Quantitative Finance, 18(5), pp. 761-775. (doi: 10.1080/14697688.2017.1414505)
2017
Park, J. S. and Shi, Y. (2017) Hedging and speculative pressures and the transition of the spot-futures relationship in energy and metal markets. International Review of Financial Analysis, 54, pp. 176-191. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2016.12.001)
2016
Philip, D. and Shi, Y. (2016) Optimal hedging in carbon emission markets using Markov regime switching models. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 43, pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2016.03.003)
2015
Philip, D. and Shi, Y. (2015) Impact of allowance submissions in European carbon emission markets. International Review of Financial Analysis, 40, pp. 27-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2015.05.004)
Chau, F., Kuo, J.-M. and Shi, Y. (2015) Arbitrage opportunities and feedback trading in emissions and energy markets. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 36, pp. 130-147. (doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2015.02.002)
Articles
Jiang, Z., Shi, Y. and Xing, L. (2025) Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Journal of Empirical Finance, 81, 101582. (doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2025.101582)
Wang, Z., Zhang, T., Ren, X. and Shi, Y. (2024) AI adoption rate and corporate green innovation efficiency: evidence from Chinese energy companies. Energy Economics, 132, 107499. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107499)
Shi, Y. and Zhu, K. (2024) Unraveling the impact of bank loan spread on corporate innovation: evidence from China. Economic Modelling, 130, 106559. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106559)
Jia, Z., Li, D., Shi, Y. and Xing, L. (2023) Firm-level media coverage, bank loans, and the role of institutional environments. Journal of Corporate Finance, 83, 102491. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2023.102491)
Ding, R., Shi, Y. and Zhou, H. (2023) Social media coverage and post-earnings announcement drift: evidence from seeking alpha. European Journal of Finance, 29(2), pp. 207-227. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2021.2022508)
Dong, K., Zhao, J., Ren, X. and Shi, Y. (2023) Environmental regulation, human capital, and pollutant emissions: the case of SO2 emissions for China. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 21(1), pp. 111-135. (doi: 10.1080/14765284.2022.2106539)
Shi, Y. , Chen, D., Guo, B., Xu, Y. and Yan, C. (2022) The information content of CDS implied volatility and associated trading strategies. International Review of Financial Analysis, 83, 102295. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102295)
Shi, Y. , Stasinakis, C. , Xu, Y., Yan, C. and Zhang, X. (2022) Stock price default boundary: A Black-Cox model approach. International Review of Financial Analysis, 83, 102284. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102284)
Zhou, D., Liu, Y., Ren, X., Yan, C. and Shi, Y. (2022) Economic agglomeration and product quality upgrading: evidence from China. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 20(4), pp. 377-395. (doi: 10.1080/14765284.2021.1985933)
Ren, X., Li, J. and Shi, Y. (2022) Can digital economic attention spillover to financial markets? Evidence from the time-varying Granger test. Journal of Digital Economy, 1(2), pp. 102-116. (doi: 10.1016/j.jdec.2022.11.002)
Li, D., Shi, Y. , Xu, L., Xu, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2022) Dynamic asymmetric dependence and portfolio management in cryptocurrency markets. Finance Research Letters, 48, 102829. (doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.102829)
Pang, Y., Shi, S., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2022) A nonlinear dynamic approach to cash flow forecasting. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 59(1), pp. 205-237. (doi: 10.1007/s11156-022-01066-8)
Shi, Y. , Stasinakis, C. , Xu, Y. and Yan, C. (2022) Market co-movement between credit default swap curves and option volatility surfaces. International Review of Financial Analysis, 82, 102192. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102192)
He, Z., Guo, B., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2022) Natural disasters and CSR: Evidence from China. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 73, 101777. (doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2022.101777)
Yang, J., Guariglia, A., Peng, Y. and Shi, Y. (2022) Inventory investment and the choice of financing: does financial development play a role? Journal of Corporate Finance, 74, 102139. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102139)
Ren, X., Duan, K., Tao, L., Shi, Y. and Yan, C. (2022) Carbon prices forecasting in quantiles. Energy Economics, 108, 105862. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105862)
Liu, P., Peng, Y., Shi, Y. and Yang, J. (2022) Financial structures, political risk and economic growth. European Journal of Finance, 28(4-5), pp. 356-376. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2021.1879888)
Ren, X., Shi, Y. and Jin, C. (2022) Climate policy uncertainty and corporate investment: evidence from the Chinese energy industry. Carbon Neutrality, 1, 14. (doi: 10.1007/s43979-022-00008-6)
Yang, G., Huang, R., Shi, Y. and Jia, Z. (2021) Does a CEO's private reputation impede corporate governance? Economic Modelling, 104, 105640. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105640)
Duan, K., Ren, X., Shi, Y. , Mishra, T. and Yan, C. (2021) The marginal impacts of energy prices on carbon price variations: evidence from a quantile-on-quantile approach. Energy Economics, 95, 105131. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105131)
Fang, Y., Jing, Z., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2021) Financial spillovers and spillbacks: new evidence from China and G7 countries. Economic Modelling, 94, pp. 184-200. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.09.022)
Shi, S. and Shi, Y. (2021) Bitcoin futures: trade it or ban it? European Journal of Finance, 27(4-5), pp. 381-396. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2019.1647865)
Zhao, N., Shi, Y. , Sun, Y. and Miao, J. (2020) Aggregate labor market fluctuations under news shocks. Economic Modelling, 90, pp. 397-405. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.12.018)
Xu, L., Gao, H., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2020) The heterogeneous volume-volatility relations in the exchange-traded fund market: evidence from China. Economic Modelling, 85, pp. 400-408. (doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.11.019)
Hu, H., Prokop, J., Shi, Y. and Trautwein, H.-M. (2020) The rating spillover from banks to sovereigns: an empirical investigation across the European Union. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 64, 101161. (doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2019.101161)
Gao, H., Shen, Z., Li, Y., Mao, X. and Shi, Y. (2020) Institutional investors, real earnings management and cost of equity: Evidence from listed high-tech firms in China. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 56(14), pp. 3490-3506. (doi: 10.1080/1540496x.2019.1650348)
Guo, B., Shi, Y. and Xu, Y. (2020) Volatility information difference between CDS, options, and the cross section of options returns. Quantitative Finance, 20(12), pp. 2025-2036. (doi: 10.1080/14697688.2020.1814018)
Jia, Z., Shi, Y. , Yan, C. and Duygun, M. (2020) Bankruptcy prediction with financial systemic risk. European Journal of Finance, 26(7-8), pp. 666-690. (doi: 10.1080/1351847X.2019.1656095)
Yan, D., Kong, Y., Ye, B., Shi, Y. and Zeng, X. (2019) Spatial variation of energy efficiency based on a Super-Slack-Based Measure: Evidence from 104 resource-based cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 240, 117669. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117669)
Yan, D., Kong, Y., Ren, X., Shi, Y. and Chiang, S. (2019) The determinants of urban sustainability in Chinese resource-based cities: A panel quantile regression approach. Science of the Total Environment, 686, pp. 1210-1219. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.386)
Ren, X., Lu, Z., Cheng, C., Shi, Y. and Shen, J. (2019) On dynamic linkages of the state natural gas markets in the USA: evidence from an empirical spatio-temporal network quantile analysis. Energy Economics, 80, pp. 234-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.01.001)
Shi, Y. , Zhang, H., Xu, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2019) The term structure of option-implied volatility and future realized volatility. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 55(13), pp. 2997-3022. (doi: 10.1080/1540496X.2019.1612360)
Cheng, C., Ren, X., Wang, Z. and Shi, Y. (2018) The impacts of non-fossil energy, economic growth, energy consumption, and oil price on carbon intensity: evidence from a panel quantile regression analysis of EU 28. Sustainability, 10(11), 4067. (doi: 10.3390/su10114067)
Kutan, A. M., Shi, Y. , Wei, M. and Zhao, Y. (2018) Does the introduction of index futures stabilize stock markets? Further evidence from emerging markets. International Review of Economics and Finance, 57, pp. 183-197. (doi: 10.1016/j.iref.2018.01.003)
Yan, D., Lei, Y., Shi, Y. , Zhu, Q., Li, L. and Zhang, Z. (2018) Evolution of the spatiotemporal pattern of PM2.5 concentrations in China – a case study from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Atmospheric Environment, 183, pp. 225-233. (doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.03.041)
Zhao, Y., Stasinakis, C. , Sermpinis, G. and Shi, Y. (2018) Neural network copula portfolio optimization for exchange traded funds. Quantitative Finance, 18(5), pp. 761-775. (doi: 10.1080/14697688.2017.1414505)
Park, J. S. and Shi, Y. (2017) Hedging and speculative pressures and the transition of the spot-futures relationship in energy and metal markets. International Review of Financial Analysis, 54, pp. 176-191. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2016.12.001)
Philip, D. and Shi, Y. (2016) Optimal hedging in carbon emission markets using Markov regime switching models. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 43, pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2016.03.003)
Philip, D. and Shi, Y. (2015) Impact of allowance submissions in European carbon emission markets. International Review of Financial Analysis, 40, pp. 27-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2015.05.004)
Chau, F., Kuo, J.-M. and Shi, Y. (2015) Arbitrage opportunities and feedback trading in emissions and energy markets. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 36, pp. 130-147. (doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2015.02.002)
Book Sections
Yuan, G. X., Yan, C., Zhou, Y., Liu, H., Qian, G. and Shi, Y. (2022) Credit risk analysis of Chinese companies by applying the CAFÉ Approach. In: Wang, Y., Zhu, G., Han, Q., Zhang, L., Song, X. and Lu, Z. (eds.) Data Science: 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022, Chengdu, China, August 19–22, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. Series: Communications in computer and information science (1629). Springer: Singapore, pp. 475-502. ISBN 9789811952081 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-5209-8_33)
Shi, Y. , Paramati, S. R. and Ren, X. (2020) The growth of carbon markets in Asia: the potential challenges for future development. In: Huang, B. and Yu, E. (eds.) Ways to Achieve Green Asia. ADBI, pp. 125-152. ISBN 9784899742111
Research Reports or Papers
Paramati, S. R., Shi, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2019) Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Economic Development in the People's Republic of China: The Role of Renewable Energy across Provinces. ADBI Working Paper 1050. [Research Reports or Papers]
Grants
“Momentum Strategies under the scope of market microstructure in the Foreign Exchange Market” ULSB research development fund, £2250, with Zhiyong Li
“Uncovered Equity ‘Disparity’ in Emerging Markets”, Newton Fund Official Development Assistance Allocation 2017, £7707, with Cheng Yan et al.
“The relationship between Chinese carbon spot and futures markets” 2017, £2276, China Clean Energy Fund.
“Developing a regional carbon emission market in Wuhu, China” £10,000, with Fanlin Ran and Meng Shen (2016). Wuhu City Government
Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange Travel Fund, University of Leicester, 2016, £950.