Dr. Yelin Zhang is committed to sharing his expertise with students, supporting them with care, and helping them realize their full potential.
Dr. Zhang’s research interest covers corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, and financial markets. His research works are published in Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions &Money, Small Business Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Emerging Markets Review and Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His scholarly works are presented at Northern Finance Association annual meeting, Financial Management Association European conference, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Academy of Management annual meeting, Small Business Economics entrepreneurship conference and Canadian Law and Economics Association’s Annual Conference.
Dr. Zhang’s expertise in finance allows him to serve frequently as a referee for internationally reputable journals and academic conferences, including the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, British Journal of Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Academy of Management Annual Meeting and Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, among others
Journal Publications:
- Investors’ Industry Preference in Equity Crowdfunding, with Sofia Johan, The Journal of Technology Transfer, Volume 47, October 2021
- Quality Revealing Versus Overstating in Equity Crowdfunding, with Sofia Johan, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 65, December 2020
- The Role of Diligence in Crowdfunding Platforms, with Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan, Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 108, November 2019, 105661
- What is mutual fund flow?, with Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Volume 62, September 2019
- Public policy towards entrepreneurial finance: spillovers and the scale-up gap, with Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 34, Issue 4, September 2018
- Governance in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Venture Capitalists vs. Technology Parks, with Douglas Cumming and Jochen Christian Werth, Small Business Economics, 2017
- Alternative Investments in Emerging Markets: A Review and New Trends, with Douglas Cumming, Emerging Markets Review, Volume 29, December 2016
Other Publications:
- Chapter “Crowdfunding”, with Anton N Tyurin, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN: 9783030387389, July 2023
- Chapter "Collaboration in Entrepreneurial Finance”, with Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan, The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, Oxford University Press; ISBN: 9780190633899, September 2019
- 2016 Alternative Finance Crowdfunding in Canada (Industry Report), as Primary Research Team Member, National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada, December 13, 2016
- A Dissection of Mutual Fund Fees, Flows and Performance, with Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan, The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), October 22, 2015
Ad-Hoc Journal Reviewer:
- Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
- British Journal of Management
- Journal of Corporate Finance
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- British Accounting Review
- Emerging Markets Review
- Small Business Economics
- Corporate Governance: An International Review
- The European Journal of Finance
- Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
- Eurasian Business Review
- International Journal of Revenue Management
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies
- Economics and Business Letters
- Journal of Financial Research
- International Journal of Business and Systems Research
- Economic Modelling
- Venture Capital—an international journal of entrepreneurial finance
- Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
- Sustainability
- Cogent Business & Management
- FinTech
- Fractal Fract (ISSN 2504-3110), Switzerland
- The Global Business and Finance Review
- Studies in Economics and Finance
Academic Service as Conference Organizer:
- Financial Management Association 2018 Annual Meeting, session chair
- Financial Management Association 2019 Annual Meeting, program committee member, session chair
- Financial Management Association 2020 Annual Meeting (Virtual Conference), program committee member, session chair
- Financial Management Association 2021 Annual Meeting, program committee member, session chair
- Financial Management Association 2022 Annual Meeting, program committee member
- Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance 2023 Annual Conference, session chair
- Academy of Management 2024 Annual Meeting, program committee member
- Financial Management 2024 Annual Meeting, program committee member, session chair
Editorial Board Member:
- International Journal of Business and Systems Research
https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijbsr
ISSN online 1751-2018; ISSN print 1751-200X; Cite Score (2021) 0.9
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991697/homepage/editorialboard.html
Online ISSN:1099-1697.
SJR 0.497 (2021), SNIP 0.765 (2021), Cite Score (2021) 3.2, Cite Score Tracker (2022) 3.6
- Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=tvec20
Print ISSN: 1369-1066 Online ISSN: 1464-5343.
2.4 (2022) Impact Factor, 4.0 (2022) 5 year IF, 5.7 (2022) Cite Score (Scopus), Q1 Cite Score Best Quartile, 1.327 (2022) SNIP, 1.234 (2022) SJR
- Global Business and Finance Review
Print ISSN:1088-6931 Online ISSN: 2384-1648
H Index:8, SJR: 0.150, SNIP: 0.356, Cite Score: 1.0
