Dr. Peiyi Yu is a Senior Lecturer within the Finance, Economics and Accounting field.  Peiyi’s current research interests include hybrid bank capital securities, panel data econometrics, bank mergers, financial reforms, and banking regulation.  She obtained her PhD in Finance from the University of Birmingham. Her thesis focused on the profit-structure relationships of the banking industry.  Peiyi’s recent publications include papers in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Developing Economics and Studies in Economics and Finance. She is a member of the German Finance Association and US Financial Management Association.  In 2003, Peiyi was awarded a DAAD scholarship to carry out a research project related to the German banking industry at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. In 2006, she also won a research grant from the University of Wolverhampton to study barriers to entry in European Banking.

Programme Leader for:

• MSc Financial Management,
• MSc International Accounting and Finance
• MSc Investment and Risk Management

• Financial Institutions Management: Hybrid Bank Capital Securities, Barriers for Foreign Banks to Entry, Mergers, Bank Efficiency, and Financial Reform and Regulation
• Financial Economics: Panel Data Econometrics
• Business Economics and Industrial Economics: Profit-Structure Relationship, Industrial and Competition Policies

• MSc Financial Management
• Accounting and Finance

• FEM108 -Finance Markets and Investment Management
• FE3027 - Corporate Finance

Book/monographs and chapters in books

Yu, P. and Luu, B.V. (2008, June): Management of Market Risks, in: Oliver Everling and Samuel Theodore (eds): Management of Risks in Banks, GWV Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden.

Refereed articles

Yu, P., Luu, B.V. and Werner Neus (2011): Lessons from the Collapse in Hybrid Bank Capital Securities, International Journal of Management Practice, Volume 5, Issue 2 (forthcoming).

Luu, B.V. and Yu, P. (2011): The Credit Risk Premium: Should Investors Overweight Credit,   When and By How Much?  Journal of Investing, Winter 2011 Issue (forthcoming).

Yu, P., Jessica Yang and Nada K. Kakabadse (2011) Developing “Best Practice” in Bankers’ Pay in Light of Basel III, Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets and Institutions, Volume 1, Issue 3 (forthcoming).

Yu, P., Neus, W., Luu, B. V. and Dodd, S. (2007) Why German Banks Should Merge, Studies in Economics and Finance, Volume 24, Number 2, pp.140-155.

Yu, P. (2003) Competitive issues in the Taiwanese banking industry, mergers and universal banks, Developing Economies 41(3) pp.303-339.

Yu, P. & Luu, B.V. (2003) Banking mergers: the impact of financial liberalisation on the Taiwanese banking industry, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 20(4) pp.385-413. 

Conference contributions

Yu, P., Jessica Yang (2011) Paying for Long-Term Performance: Restructuring Bankers’ pay for Risk Regulation, Presented to The 25th British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference, 13-15 September 2011.

Yu, P. and Luu, B.V. (2009): Lessons from the Collapse in Hybrid Bank Capital Securities Presented to Money, Macro and Finance Research Group 41st Annual Conference, Bradford University, UK, September 7-9.

Yu, P. and Luu, B.V. (2009): Lessons from the Collapse in Hybrid Bank Capital Securities Presented to INFER Workshop on The Credit Crunch: Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy, Kingston University, UK, June 13.

Yu, P. and Luu, B.V. (2009): Lessons from the Collapse in Hybrid Bank Capital Securities Presented to the 6th EUROFRAME Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union, British Academy, London, UK, June 12.

Yu, P. and Luu, B.V. (2009): Lessons from the Collapse in Hybrid Bank Capital Securities Presented to MAX FRY CONFERENCE ON FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT
, University of Birmingham, UK, MAY 14-15.

Yu, P. & Neus, W. (2005) Market structure, scale efficiency, and risk as determinants of German banking profitability Presented to the 10th Symposium on Finance, Banking and Insurance Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, December.

Yu, P. & Neus, W. (2004) Why German banks should merge - how structural factors affect German banking profitability Presented to the Annual German Finance Association Conference University of Tuebingen, Germany, October.

Published research reports

Yu, P. & Neus, W. (2005) Market structure, scale efficiency, and risk as determinants of German banking profitability. Tuebinger Diskussionsbeitrag  Nr. 294 Juni.

• Dr Peiyi Yu is a member of the German Finance Association and US Financial Management Association.
• External examiner for South Bank University.  (To act as Subject Board External for various units on the MSc in International Finance & Banking etc.)
• Part-time on-line MSc Lecturer for the Centre for Financial and Management Studies, University of London, SOAS from 2003 until now.
• 2006-2007 PGCERT certificate, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.