Educational Qualifications

2010 - 2015          
Ph.D. (Finance), National University of Singapore

2008 - 2010          
M.A. (Mathematics), National University of Singapore

2004 - 2008          
BSc. (Scientific Computation & Computer Application), Sun Yat-Sen University, China  

Academic and Professional Experience

2015 - 2020          
Assistant Professor, School of Finance, Nankai University in China

2015 - 2020          
Visiting Scholar, School of Business, National University of Singapore

Selected Publications

  • J Shi, Y Wang, W Xu, Z Yu, (2027) Lending in Need: Natural Disaster Shocks and Online Borrowing in Indonesia. Journal of Business Research. (A in ABDC list)
  • G Yang, S Zhang, Weibiao Xu, F Xiao, (2026), How government data openness mitigates policy uncertainty effects on corporate investment. Emerging Markets Review. (A in ABDC list)
  • D. K. L. Lee, Weibiao Xu, J. Shi , Y. Wang, and D.Ding, (2026) Shock Next Door: Geographic Spillovers in FinTech Lending after Natural Disasters, Econometrics. (B in ABDC list)
  • (SCImago Q2)
  • , Liu Z., Feng Q., Yu Z., (2025), Banking Shareholder and the Land Acquisition Behavior of China’s Leading Real Estate Firms. Empirical Economics Letters. (C in ABDC list)
  • Shi J., Lee K., Weibiao Xu, Wang Y. (2025) Comparative Analysis of Open-Source Frameworks for Agentic AI Systems: Capabilities, Design Philosophies, and Development Experiences, World Scientific Annual Review of Fintech.
  • Liu Z., Qian F., Yu Z., Jin W., Weibiao Xu (2025): Banking shareholder and the debt behaviour of Chinese real estate firms, Applied Economics Letters. (B in ABDC list)
  • Lee, D. K. C., Li, Y, Liu, F., Weibiao Xu (2024) Disclosing Fraud and Subsidizing Arbitration as a Trust Promoting Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from Laboratory Data. The Journal of FinTech.
  • Lee, D. K. C., Li, Y, Weibiao Xu.(2023) Rewarding Honesty: An Incentive Mechanism to Promote Trust in Blockchain-Based E-commerce. The Journal of The British Blockchain Association.
  • Lee D.K., Ding Q., Wang Z, Weibiao Xu (2023) Voting Schemes in DAO Governance, World Scientific Annual Review of Fintech.
  • D. Liebau, Ding Q., Wang Z., Weibiao Xu (2023) A Survey on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and Their Governance. World Scientific Annual Review of Fintech.
  • Massimo Massa, Wenlan Qian, Weibiao Xu, & Hong Zhang, (2015), “Competition of the Informed: Does the Presence of Short Sellers Affect Insider Selling?” Journal of Financial Economics, 118:268-288 (A* in ABDC list)
  • Weibiao Xu, Wang H., (2011) An Efficient Numerical Method for Simulating the Dynamics of Coupling Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Resonators. Journal of Computer Physics Communications 182(3): 706-718. (A in the CORE and ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia); SCImago Q1)

 

Book Chapter

  • Weibiao Xu (2024). Tokenization and Enterprise Blockchain, in David Lee Kuo Chuen (Ed.). Handbook of Digital Currency, Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data, Second Edition, Elsevier.
  • Weibiao Xu, with Ding Q., and Wang Z., (2025). DAO and DAO governance, in David Lee Kuo Chuen & Robert H. Deng (Ed.) Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 3. eBook ISBN: 9780443347184
  • Weibiao Xu, with Li, Y., Shi, C., (2025). Smart Contracts for Promoting Trust in Blockchain-based E-commerce, in David Lee Kuo Chuen & Robert H. Deng (Ed.) Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 3. eBook ISBN: 9780443347184


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