{"id":423,"date":"2022-11-16T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:54:00","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-476\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rose Liao Profile Pic\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rose-liao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/02\/ProfilePic-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif\">Rose Liao is an associate professor of finance in the department of Finance and Economics at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on international finance and empirical corporate finance. Her most recent work explores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1042957322000511\">female representation on boards of directors around the world<\/a>, motives for cross-border mergers and acquisitions, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/mnsc.2019.3405\">global investor relations activities<\/a>, and motives of corporate inversions. Her research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif\">Rose currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/emerging-markets-review\"> Emerging Markets Review<\/a>, a premier journal for publishing high impact theoretical and empirical studies in emerging markets finance. She is also a subject editor at the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions &amp; Money and Journal of Multinational Financial Management. In the past she has served as a member of the program committees for the American Finance Association Meetings, the Western Finance Association Meetings, and the Financial Management Association Meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif\">She is a strong advocate for project-based learning, namely working with industry practitioners, such as asset and portfolio managers, corporate executives, and financial analysts, to design projects for students that are based on real world problems. She is currently the faculty advisor for Scarlet Student Managed Funds. She has taught in various education\/training programs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and is actively involved in consulting with banks, investment firms, and law firms. Rose is on the review board of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) and the finance track chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unprme.org\/\">UN\u2019s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)<\/a> 2024 Global Forum, an initiative of the UN Global Compact. She gives frequent keynotes and serves on panels in numerous international forums and conferences such as the ASSA editor meetings, Sustainable Financial Innovation Center Conference, the Annual Financial Market Liquidity Conference, the Elsevier Finance Conferences, among others. She founded and led the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/special-issue\/270379\/call-for-african-research-proposals\"> African Finance Research<\/a> initiative and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffea.eu\/past-conferences\/rio-de-janeiro-november-2023\">Elsevier Finance Mentorship<\/a> program to improve access to academic publishing for underrepresented scholars. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Liao is an associate professor of finance in the department of Finance and Economics at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on international finance and empirical corporate finance. 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