Dr. Zuobao Wei is a Professor of Finance in the Economics and Finance Department at UTEP. He also holds the Gary R. and Leanne B. Hedrick Distinguished Professorship in Western Hemispheric Trade Research. He earned a Ph.D. in Finance and a Master's in Economics from the University of New Orleans. He also earned a Master of Engineering Management (MEM) from Brigham Young University and a Bachelors degree 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, such as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, among others. Dr. Wei was Visiting Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Austria from Jan-June 2019. Dr. Wei has won a number of research and teaching excellence awards at UTEP.

• Ph D in Investments and International Finance, University of New Orleans (1998)
• MA in Economics, University of New Orleans (1995)
• Other in 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 66 Feb. 2021 (2021), Tingting Liu, Yu Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei, Lixin Colin Xu.
• Bank Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies Journal of Financial Research 40 4 (2017), Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei.
• Growth and Growth Obstacles in Transition Economies: Privatized versus De Novo Private Firms Journal of Corporate Finance 42 February (2017), Juliet D'Souza, William L. Megginson, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei.
• CFO Gender and Earnings Management: Evidence from China Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 46 4 (2016), Yu Liu, Zuobao Wei, Feixue Xie, .
• Re-examining the Assocation between Unexpected Earnings and Abnormal Security Returns in the Presence of Financial Leverage Journal of Accounting and Finance 16 4 (2016), Hong K. Duong, Zuobao Wei, Karl B. Putnam.

• 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.

• UTEP Financial services Center & Student Managed Investment Fund