Skip to main content
  • About The Lang School of Business and Economics
  • Why Choose Lang
  • Meet the Dean
  • Faculty
  • Accreditations
  • History of the School
  • Strategic Plan 2023-2028
  • Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Sustainability and CSR at Lang
  • News
  • Events
  • Contact Lang
  • Overview
  • Accounting (Major)
  • Food and Agricultural Business (Major)
  • Government, Economics and Management (Major)
  • Hospitality and Tourism Management (Major)
  • Management (Major)
  • Management Economics and Finance (Major)
  • Marketing Management
  • Real Estate (Major)
  • Sport and Event Management (Major)
  • Accounting (Minor)
  • Business Data Analytics (Minor)
  • Economics (Minor)
  • Entrepreneurship (Minor)
  • Human Resources (Minor)
  • International Business (Minor)
  • Bachelor of Commerce
  • Marketing (Minor)
  • Restaurant and Beverage Management (Minor)
  • Sport and Event Management (Minor)
  • Sustainable Business (Minor)
  • Undeclared First-Year Entry - B. Comm
  • Master of Science in Management
  • MA in Financial Economics
  • PhD in Economics
  • PhD in Management
  • MBA, In-Person
  • MBA, Online
  • Masters in Leadership
  • Master of Project Management
  • Master of Real Estate
  • Master of Professional Accounting
  • Graduate Diploma in Accounting and Project Management
  • Master of Supply Chain Management
  • Management
  • Economics
  • Marketing & Consumer Studies
  • School of Hospitality, Food & Tourism Management
  • Overview
  • Research Chairs
  • Research Centres and Institutes
  • Overview
  • International Students
  • Business Career Development Centre
  • Competition and Conference Funding
  • Dress to Impress: Sustainably Styled for Success
  • Career Connections Hub on Ten Thousand Coffees
  • Scholarships and Awards at Lang
Recruiters
  1. U of G Homepage

Fred Liu

Fred Liu

Assistant Professor

Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics & Finance

Research Areas

  • Finance
  • Econometrics

About

Dr. Fred Liu earned his PhD in Economics from Western University in 2021. He received an MA in Economics from Western University in 2015, a BA in Economics from the University of Waterloo in 2014, and a BBA in Finance from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2012.

His research interests include: Financial Econometrics, Machine Learning, Asset Pricing, Risk Management, and Big Data.

Personal website: https://www.fredliu.ca/

Research Interests

Research interests:

  • Financial Econometrics
  • Machine Learning
  • Asset Pricing
  • Risk Management
  • Big Data

Current projects:

Can the Premium for Idiosyncratic Tail Risk be Explained by Exposures to its Common Factor?

Potential future projects:

A Machine Learning Framework for Basel 3 Market Risk

Intraday Stock Predictability with Machine Learning

Publications

Liu, Fred, and Lars Stentoft. "Regulatory Capital and Incentives for Risk Model Choice under Basel 3." Journal of Financial Econometrics 19.1 (2021): 53-96.

Huddleston, Dillon, Fred Liu, and Lars Stentoft. "Intraday market predictability: A Machine Learning Approach." Journal of Financial Econometrics, Forthcoming.

Presentations

  • Research Centre for Economic Analysis (2021)
  • 60th Annual Meeting, Southern Finance Association (2020)
  • Canadian Economics Association (2018)
  • Canadian Econometrics Study Group (2017)
  • Canadian Economics Association (2017)

Current Courses

  • FIN*3200 Fundamentals of Derivatives
  • FIN*4000 Advanced Topics in Finance

Funding

  • SSHRC Fellowship ($40,000) 2018-2020
  • OGS ($30,000) 2016-2017

Awards and Honours

  • Tutorial Teaching Assistant of the Year, Western University, 2015
  • Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement, University of Waterloo, 2014

Relevant Files

  • FredLiuCV.pdf