Dr. Laura Xiaolei Liu is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at CKGSB. She is also an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Business and Management. Dr. Liu holds a Ph.D. in Finance with a minor in Accounting, as well as an M.A. in Applied Economics, from the University of Rochester, and an M.A. in Finance from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.

• Dean's Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, 2009
• CRA International Corporate Finance Award for the best corporate finance paper in Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2005, for "Do Firms Have Target Leverage Ratios? Evidence from Historical Market-to-Book and Past Returns".
• Best PhD paper award in Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2005, for "Do Firms Have Target Leverage Ratios? Evidence from Historical Market-to-Book and Past Returns".
• NYSE Student Travel Grant in Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2005
• Fellowship, Simon Business School, University of Rochester, 1998 to 2004
• An Zijie International Trade Thesis Prize, 1996 for "World Bank Policy Evaluation and Developing Economics"

• "Momentum profits, factor pricing, and macroeconomic risk" (with Lu Zhang, supersedes "Momentum profits and macroeconomic risk" and "Economic fundamentals, risk, and momentum profits"), 2008, Review of Financial Studies, 21 (6), 2417-2448
• "Historical market-to-book in a partial-adjustment model of leverage" (supersedes "Do firms have target leverage ratios? Evidence from historical market-to-book and past returns"), 2009, Journal of Corporate Finance, 602–612
• "Investment-based expected stock returns" (with Toni Whited and Lu Zhang, supersedes "Regularities"), 2009, Journal of Political Economy, 117 (6), 1105-1139.
• "World Bank policy evaluation and developing economics", Studies of International Finance, China, 1997, 1