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Mengqiao Du

Mengqiao Du

Doktorandin
Universität Mannheim
L 9, 1–2 – Raum 508
68161 Mannheim
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Forschungs­interessen

  • Behavioral finance
  • Corporate finance
  • Labor economics (especially gender-related topics)
  • Ausbildung

    • University of Mannheim, Germany
      • 2017-Present: Doctoral candidate
      • 2015–2017: Mannheim Master in Management (1.4)
    • University of Miami, USA
      • 09/2019–12/2019: Visiting scholar
    • UC Berkeley, USA
      • 01/2012–02/2012: Winter School Global Entrepreneur­ship Training
    • Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
      • 07/ 2011–08/2011: Summer Exchange Program
    • University of International Business and Economics, China
      • 09/2010–06/2014: Bachelor of Management (Top 5%)
  • Präsentationen

    2022

    AFA (scheduled)

    2021

    NFA 2021 (scheduled), FMA (scheduled), EEA (scheduled), AEA (poster session presentation), Eastern Finance Conference (presentation and discussion), Virtual Asset Management Seminar Series (presentation), AFFI (session chair, presentation, and discussion), ECGI Workshop Corporations and Covid-19 (presentation), 7th International Young Finance Scholars' Conference (presentation)

    2020

    3rd Annual Dauphine Finance Ph.D. Workshop (presentation), Behavioral Research in Finance, Governance, and Accounting conference 2020 (presentation and discussion), Australian Finance and Banking Conference 2020 (session chair, two presentations and two discussions), FMA Annual Meeting 2019 (discussion)

    2019

    SGF Conference 2019 (presentation and discussion), CFR Cologne 18th Colloquium on Financial Markets (presentation), FMA Annual Meeting 2019 (presentation and discussion)

    2018

    FMA European Conference 2018 (presentation and discussion), CICF 2018 (presentation), Research in Behavioral Finance Conference 2018 (presentation)

  • Stipendien

    • DAAD Kurzstipendien für Doktoranden
    • Julius Paul Stiegler Gedächtnis Stiftung
    • IPID4all Mobility Funding
    • DAAD Graduation Scholar­ship
    • UIBE Comprehensive Scholar­ship
    • Freshman Scholar­ship
  • Referee

    Journal of Banking and Finance, Finance Research Letter, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Economic Bulletin (2), European Financial Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, Management International Review, Business Research, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research

  • Lehre

    08/2017-present: Teaching Staff at the University Mannheim:

    • Corporate Governance at Master level 
      • Teaching exercise sessions (Evaluation: Very good)
      • Updating the course contents 
    • Corporate Finance at Master level
      • Writing a case study on industry analyses and firm financials
      • Correcting case studies
    • Master thesis supervision (18 students in total) Topics include, e.g., 
      • Pretend to be kind?  Stock Holdings and Trading by Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
      • Distraction from childcare and underreaction to earnings news 
    • Research Seminar at Master level (22 students in total)
      • Prepare students for master thesis writing by teaching literature review and empirical analyses on topics including, e.g., 
        • Mutual fund media coverage and fund manager gender 
        • Women on board and overconfidence  
    • Bachelor thesis supervision (22 students in total)
      • Firm valuation at mergers and acquisitions or IPOs, e.g., The Acquisition of Celgene by Bristol-Myers Squibb 
      • Literature review and data analyses on topics including, e.g., Natural language processing in finance research
  • Berufserfahrung

    • 07/2014–06/2015: Commercial Trainee in Siemens Ltd. China
    • 01/2013–03/2013: Audit Intern in KMPG China, Beijing, China
  • Qualifikationen

    • ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Member­ship
    • STATA, Python, JAVA, SPSS, Latex