Email: yijia.gao@soton.ac.uk
Yijia is a Postgraduate Researcher based in Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton.
Yijia’s current research interests include topics in environmental economics, corporate finance, machine learning in finance, risk management, financial distress and investor sentiment. Her current responsibilities are generating specific research hypotheses, acquiring necessary skills and knowledge, doing relevant literature reviews, exploring and finding the results.
Yijia's current research focuses on the impact of climate risk from the perspective of investor sentiment on corporate finance. The aim of her research project is to provide an insight of the influence of climate risk on corporate finance and help publicity listed companies in China better encounter the risk of climate change under the pressure of achieving goal of the Paris Agreement. The measurement she aims to develop is finding and predicting the influence of climate risk.
Yijia received her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Chung Yuan Christian University in 2021 and MSc in Finance from the University of Edinburgh in 2022. For her Master’s thesis she conducted an empirical study on the impact of three different environmental regulations (command and control, market oriented and voluntary) on corporate distress in China. In September 2022, she joined the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Southampton as a PhD candidate to further her research on the impact of climate change on corporate finance from a deeper perspective.