Dr. Peiyi Yu is a Senior Lecturer within the Finance, Economics and Risk 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, Journal of Investing, and the Journal of Fixed Income. 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

• Financial Institutions Management: Hybrid Bank Capital Securities, Executive Compensation Pay, 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
• MSc Finance and Risk

• Corporate Finance
• Investments and Portfolio Management
• Financial Risk Management

Luu, B.V. and Yu, P. (2012) Momentum in Government Bond Markets, the Journal of Fixed Income, Fall September, pp.1-8.

Yu, P., and Luu, B.V. (2012) Lessons from the Collapse in Hybrid Bank Capital Securities, International Journal of Management Practice, Vol.5, No.2, 2012, pp.125-148.

Luu, B.V. and Yu, P. (2012 July) Credit pays - in the long run, Creditflux, 1207, pp. 18-19.

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, pp.132-140.

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, pp.7-16.

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.

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.  

• Member of the German Finance Association
• Member of US Financial Management Association
• Member of British Academy of Management
• Member of HEA