Lishu Zhang 张郦姝
Financial Economist · PhD candidate, Tilburg University · Researcher, CREST (Paris)
I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Economics at Tilburg University, supervised by Harry Huizinga, Harald Benink, and Louis Raes. I am also a researcher in the Finance group at CREST in Paris, working with Peter Tankov and Olivier David Zerbib.
l.zhang_3@tilburguniversity.edu | lishu.zhang@ensae.fr
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I am on the job market 2026-2027.
My research interests lie within Trade, Environmental Economics, and Finance. I draw on trade and macroeconomic theory to motivate and structure my empirical analysis. I study how global financial markets respond to climate change, and how climate-related risks are redistributed across countries, firms, and investors. My dissertation examines this through cross-border equity investment, M&A, and bank lending. At CREST, I extend the agenda to critical raw material (CRM) risk, combining production networks, trade, climate transition, and AI-assisted measurement.
Job Market Papers
A language-model-assisted measure of firm dependence on critical raw materials, used to study operating and valuation responses to trade restrictions.
A measure of carbon sensitivity in lending and the international transfer of climate risk through cross-border bank lending.