Cen, Ling

Biography

Professor Ling Cen is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he also serves as Associate Director of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen Finance Research Centre.

Professor Cen conducts interdisciplinary studies of finance, operations management, and accounting, focusing on the impact of supply-chain relationships on various aspects of the capital market. He also works extensively at the intersection of labour and finance, exploring topics such as workforce equality, labour mobility, and skill identification. His work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, and Production and Operations Management. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the International Review of Finance and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

Professor Cen has taught across CUHK’s undergraduate, MSc, MBA, FMBA, and DBA programmes. In recognition of his teaching, he received the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2021 and 2024, as well as Faculty Teaching Merit Awards each year from 2018 to 2025.

Teaching Areas

Behavioural Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Corporate Finance/Financial Management

Research Interests

Impact of Supply-Chain Relationships on Capital Markets
Labour and Finance
Information Production and Diffusion in Financial Markets