General:
- Guofu is Frederick Bierman and James E. Spears Professor of Finance at Olin Business School,
Washington
University in St. Louis, known as WashU, where he joined in 1990 and has worked ever since.
Guofu Zhou (周国富) grew up in Chengdu, the capital of
Sichuan province located in the Southwestern part of China.
Chengdu has been a cultural center since 400 BC as witnessed by Jinsha Site Museum, built on an ancient Kingdom ground
from 2700 BC!, which displays "real old" gold, jade, bronze, stone and ivory art works. Chengdu
is one of the most beautiful
cities in China, and here are some of the breath catching
Photos around Chengdu where it is possible to drink fresh water
directly from Yangtze river, which is the longest river in the world.
One can visit QingYang Palace, the oldest Temple of Taoism, where Lao Tse, according to legend,
flew to Heaven in 500 BC after writing his most famous and fundamental text, in both philosophy and Taoism,
Tao Te Ching: The Way;
have a 10-person party on the toe of a gigantic Buddha statue overseeing
the merging of three rivers; climb a strenuous 40 mile stone
path, with the alternative nowadays by taking a cable car in 1 hour or so!, to Buddhism's Golden Summit on top of
Mt. Emei (the highest of the Four Most Sacred Buddhist Mountains in China) to wonder and ponder while being fascinated by
"Buddha's halo," which occurs when the sun rays reflected off
clouds creating a circle of scintillating, multi-hued radiance; and
search the Way via meditation on
QingChen mountain (the #1 Taoism mount; 1.25 hours away from Chengdu).
Within the city, one can explore Chengdu Panda Base (the only place in the world where there are
many wild pandas visible closely by tourists);
walk on the zigzag corridors of Du Fu Park (named after China's Greatest
Realism poet, 712-770 AD, who wrote more than 200 poems there) around
flourishing ancient trees, plum groves, and lotus ponds; stroll on Jinli Pedestrian Street
passing alleys of Chinese cultural dance, craft, cuisine and tea gardens; see some real artifacts and stone figures of the famous "Three Kingdoms" on display
at Wuhou Memorial Temple; and then
recharge oneself immensely with spicy Sichuan foods,
hot pots, and small dishes (a set of 20 different kinds
is not uncommon for a single person!)
A Glimpse!
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- E-mail: zhou@wustl.edu
- Office: Room 207, Simon Hall (phone: 314-935-6384)
- Mail: Campus Box 1133,
1 Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130
- Degrees:
- Ph.D., 1990, Duke University
- M.A., 1987, Duke University
- M.S.,
1985, Academia Sinica
- B.S., 1982, Chengdu University of Technology
- Curriculum Vita:
pdf
- Google Citations: 17,666
- SSRN Downloads: 202,218 (top 53 out of 1,955,426 researchers worldwide in Social Science Research Network)
- Research Areas: Empirical asset pricing, Applied AI and machine learning, asset
allocation, portfolio optimization, anomalies, predictability, technical analysis,
behavioral finance, household finance, mutual funds, hedge funds, options, Bayesian inference, and Chinese financial markets.
- Courses Taught: Data Analysis for Investments;
Options and Futures;
Derivatives;
Real Option Valuation;
Advanced Topics in Finance;
Capital Markets & Financial Management;
Mathematical Finance; Financial Economics I & II (PhDs), Research in Finance (PhDs).
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-- Courses
-- Book
-- Other Links ♖ ♙ ♙