Bing Xu

Dr, Associate Professor in Finance

Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Edinburgh Business School
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Research Centres and Themes, Energy Academy
Associate Professor, Research Centres and Themes, Centre for Finance & Investment

EmailB.Xu@hw.ac.uk

EH14 4AS
United Kingdom

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Biography

Bing Xu is an Associate Professor in Finance at the Heriot-Watt University. She holds a MA (Hons) in Business Studies & Accounting and a PhD in Management both from the University of Edinburgh.

Research interests

Bing is an interdisciplinary researcher in banking and finance, energy economics, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and Multi-criteria Decision Making Analysis (MCDA). She has also worked on several external funded multidisciplinary energy projects (e.g., E-Harbours; Efficient Sustainable Energy Management with the Abattoir and Dairy industries in Scotland; Sustainable Cooling) on the design of multidimensional frameworks to evaluate the effectiveness of energy strategies by focusing on stakeholders’ attitudes, motivations, and acceptance.

Bing is currently leads the work around policy, public engagement, and performance evaluation on four UKRI funded projects:

1) low carbon jet fuel production through integration of novel technologies for co-valorisation of CO2 and biomass (EP/N009924/1) EPSRC;

2) E-bio-fuels (SGBH FF Feb2019 1) EPSRC, Supergen Bioenergy Hub and the Department of Transport;

3) GREEN ICEs (EP/T022701/1) EPSRC;

4) Fast-track vaccine cold-chain assessment and design for Mass Scale COVID-19 Vaccination in Bangladesh (EP/V028332/1) GCRF.

She is on the board of director for the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) which is a global, multi-stakeholder independent organisation and is the most trusted, peer-reviewed member body active in the bioeconomy. She is also the Energy Economics Working Group Chair for the UK Chinese Economics Association.

Bing has published in journals such as Annals of Operations Research, Applied Economics, Applied Energy, Economics Letter, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Financial Stability, International Review of Financial Analysis, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, among others.

She is interested in supervising PhD students in banking, green finance, energy economics, decision-making analysis and social acceptance.

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Research Output

22 Article
3 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2 Conference article
1 Other contribution
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- 1 Discussion paper

Commodity price co-movement: heterogeneity and the time-varying impact of fundamentals

Byrne, J. P., Sakemoto, R. & Xu, B., Apr 2020, In : European Review of Agricultural Economics. 47, 2, p. 499-528 30 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

'Cooling for All': Needs-based assessment: Country-scale Cooling Action Plan Methodology

Peters, T., Xu, B. & Debnath, K. B., 16 Jun 2020, 25 p.

Research output: Other contribution

Open Access

Electrolytic cell engineering and device optimization for electrosynthesis of e-biofuels via co-valorisation of bio-feedstocks and captured CO₂

Montazersadgh, F., Zhang, H., Alkayal, A., Buckley, B., Kolosz, B. W., Xu, B. & Xuan, J., 9 Jul 2020, In : Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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