Leo Liu

Leo Liu

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney. My research on innovation and entrepreneurship involves measuring innovation to study firm, industry, and economic outcomes. My recent work also examines corporate disclosure and the impact and determinants of AI innovation. My work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, with several papers under review at top journals, and has been presented at leading conferences including AEA, AFA, NBER, SFS Cavalcade North America, EFA, and CICIF.

Publications

with Elvira Sojli, Wing Wah Tham, and Salomé Baslandze
Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 180, June 2026, 104276
Does Common Ownership Raise Antitrust Concerns? Forthcoming JCF
with Huaizhou Li, Ronald Masulis and Jason Zein
Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming

Working Papers

with Elvira Sojli and Wing Wah Tham
AI Patents R&R Review of Finance
with Sheng Xu, Tianyu Cai, Raphael Park
Product Scope and Ownership Structure R&R Journal of Banking and Finance
with Tony Cai, Jinzhao Du and Fariborz Moshirian
AI Innovation Policy and Productivity Reject & Resubmit Management Science
with Fariborz Moshirian, Vikram Nanda and Sheng Xu
with Tony Cai, Jason Zein and Hao Zhang
Conferences: AFA 2024, FMA Asia 2022, AFBC 2022