Zipei Zhu

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I'm a fifth-year finance Ph.D. student affiliated with the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Before joining Kenan-Flagler, I receiced my Master degree from Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration. I received my Bachelor degree at Renmin University of China.

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Research Interest

I study real estate finance, household finance, and financial intermediation with large micro-level data. I have been actively exploring my job market paper idea at the intersection of these areas. My current co-authored projects are listed below:

  • Impact of institutional investors on the housing markets and incumbent residents
  • Impact of all-cash purchases on the performance and behaviors of local lenders
  • Linkages between households' housing wealth and their education and career paths
News

  • I will present a PhD poster at AFA and present and discuss a paper at ASSA-AREUEA 2025.
  • I received the LatanĂ© Outstanding Student Teaching Award!
  • I presented a PhD poster and discussed a paper at ASSA-AREUEA 2024.
  • I served as a co-organizer for our Inaugural UNC Kenan-Flagler Finance PhD Alumni Conference. ❤
  • We have a paper accepted to Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance.

    • Publications
    		Leverage in Private Equity Real Estate
    Jacob Sagi, Zipei Zhu .
    Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2023
    paper / slides / SSRN
    Presentation: FSU-UF Critical Issues in Real Estate Symposium 2023, ASSA-AREUEA 2023
    Working Paper
    		Impact of Institutional Owners on Housing Markets
    Caitlin Gorback, Franklin Qian, Zipei Zhu
    Funding: Real Estate Research Institute Research Grant 2023, McCombs Research Excellence Grants
    paper / slides
    Presentation: University of Colorado Boulder (Leeds) (scheduled), 2024 SF Fed-UCLA conference on housing, financial markets and monetary policy (scheduled), UEA North American Meeting 2024 (scheduled), The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 2024 Stanford SITE for Housing and Urban Economics, 2024 Cornell Real Estate Symposium, 2024 Pre-WFA Summer Real Estate Research Symposium, 2nd Annual Conference on Market-Based Solutions for Reducing Wealth Inequality, CICF 2024, RERI Annual Conference 2024, UT Austin Finance Brownbag, ITAM Finance Conference 2024
    Work in Progress
    		Navigating the Cash Tide: The Responses of Mortgage Lenders to Cash Buyers
    Ernesto Aldana, Zipei Zhu
    poster
    Presentation: ASSA-AREUEA 2024 PhD Poster, UNC Finance PhD Brownbag
    Teaching

  • Introduction to Corporate Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Instructor. Summer 2023.
    • LatanĂ© Outstanding Student Teaching Award
  • Principals of Real Estate (Prof. Crocker Liu), Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Teaching assistant. Fall 2019.

    • Other Work
    		Is There Added Value from Investing in Healthcare REITs?
    Crocker Liu, Zipei Zhu
    R&R Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 2020
    Miscellaneous

  • My hobby is playing tennis and table tennis. I am also into science fiction and new technologies.


    • This guy makes a nice webpage.