Dr. Zuobao "Eddie" Wei is a Professor of Finance and Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at UTEP. He holds the Betty M. MacGuire Distinguished Professorship in Business Administration. He earned a Ph.D. in Financial Economics and a MS in Economics from the University of New Orleans. He also earned a Master of Engineering Management (MEM) from Brigham Young University and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Guangxi University in China. Dr. Wei teaches and conducts research in the areas of Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis, and International Finance. He has published in well-regarded finance journals, including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, among others. Dr. Wei was a Visiting Fulbright U.S. Scholar at MCI-Innsbruck, Austria from Jan-June 2019. He has won a number of research and teaching excellence awards at UTEP.

• Teaching Excellence Award - MBA - College of Business Administration (05/01/2021-05/31/2021)
• Teaching Excellence Award -MBA - College of Business Administration, UTEP (12/15/2018)
• Fulbright U.S. Scholar - U.S. Fulbright Commission (02/15/2018)
• "Outstanding Article Award" Journal of Financial Research - The Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association (01/16/2018)
• Faculty Marshall – College of Business Spring Commencement - University of Texas at El Paso (05/01/2007-05/31/2007)
• Outstanding Published Article - College Research Award - University of Texas at El Paso-Business College Council,Wei, Zuobao, Feixue Xie, and Shaorong Zhang, 2005, “Ownership Structure and Firm Value of China’s Privatized Firms: 1991-2001”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) 40 (1), 87-108. (04/01/2006-04/30/2006)
• Outstanding Published Article - Department Research Award - University of Texas at El Paso-Business College Council (04/01/2006-04/30/2006)
• Outstanding Teacher in Economics and Finance - University of Texas at El Paso-Business College Council (04/01/2006-04/30/2006)
• Outstanding Published Article - College Research Award - University of Texas at El Paso-Business College Council,Wei, Zuobao, Oscar Varela, Juliet D’Souza, and Kabir Hassan, “Financial and Operating Performance of China’s Newly Privatized Firms,” Financial Management (Summer 2003), 107-126. (04/01/2004-04/30/2004)
• Outstanding Teacher in Economics and Finance - University of Texas at El Paso-Business College Council (01/01/2003-12/31/2003)
• Best Paper Award - Global Finance Conference (Chicago, Illinois), Wei, Zuobao, and Oscar Varela, 2003, “State Equity Ownership and Firm Market Performance: Evidence from China's Newly Privatized Firms. (01/01/2000-12/31/2000)
• Robert K. Neeley Memorial Scholarship Award (1989-1992) - Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) (01/01/1989-12/31/1989)

• Ph D in Investments and International Finance, University of New Orleans (1998)
• MA in Economics, University of New Orleans (1995)
• Engineering Management, Brigham Young University (1992)
• BS in Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University (1986)

• The Dark Side of Transparency in Developing Countries: The Link between Financial Reporting Practices and Corruption. JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE vOL. 66 Feb. 2021 (in press), Tingting Liu, Yu Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei, Lixin Colin Xu.
• Financing Patterns in Transition Economies: Privatized versus Ab Initio Private Firms. EMERGING MARKET REVIEW Vol. 43 June 2020, 100680 (2020), Yu Liu, Nilesh Sah, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei.
• Bank Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies. JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH Vol. 40 4 (2017), Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei.
• Growth and Growth Obstacles in Transition Economies: Privatized versus De Novo Private Firms. JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE Vol. 42 February (2017), Juliet D'Souza, William L. Megginson, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei.

• The Effect of Regulatory Monitoring on the Role of Investment Bankers in Mergers and Acquisitions (2020), Volume New York City, NY, Zuobao Wei, Yicheng Zhu.
• The Effect of Property Rights on Capital Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2019), Volume Beijing, China, Yixin Liu, Yu Liu, Bill Megginson, Zuobao Wei.
• Gender and Firm Performance around the World: The Role of Finance, Technology and Labor (2019), Volume Essex, UK, Lee Allison, Yu Liu, Samuele Murtinu, Zuobao Wei.
• The Effect of Property Rights on Capital Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. (2019), Volume Stockhom, Sweden, Yixin Liu, Yu Liu, Bill Megginson, Zuobao Wei.
• Financing Patterns in Transition Economies: Privatized versus De Novo Private Firms (2017), Volume Boston, MA, Yu Liu, Nilesh Sah, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei.
• The Dark Side of Transparency in Developing Countries: The Link between Financial Reporting Practices and Corruption (2017), Volume Hangzhou, China, Tingting Liu, Barkat Ulllah, Zuobao Wei, Lixin Colin Xu.
• The Dark Side of Transparency in Developing Countries: The Link between Financial Reporting Practices and Corruption (Best paper finalist) (2017), Volume Lisbon, Portugal, Tingting Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei, Lixin Colin Xu.

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