Yuan Niu

Assistant Professor of Finance

Email Address:

yniu@carthage.edu

Office location:

Clausen Center 225

Phone

262-551-6007

Professor Yuan Niu received her B.S. in Finance from South China University of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Connecticut. She previously served as a Hongsheng Young Faculty member at Chongqing University and as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Tennessee.

Prof. Niu teaches various courses in finance and economics at Carthage. Her research focuses on the interactions among environmental sustainability, natural resource management, and climate resilience. In particular, she examines policy interventions to address climate change-driven conservation issues, with an emphasis on water resources and ecosystems. Her work also incorporates financial methodologies, such as modern portfolio theory, to develop innovative frameworks for evaluating conservation and sustainability strategies.

Ph.D. — Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut
M.S. — Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut
M.A. — Economics, University of Connecticut
B.S. — Finance, South China University of Technology

ACC 4050 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
FIN 3500 Fixed Income and Derivatives
BUS 4900 Business Policies Senior Seminar
ECN 1030 Issues of Economics

Prof. Niu’s research centers on exploring the interactions among environmental sustainability, the preservation and management of natural resource, and the enhancement of climate resilience. Her work specifically aims to enhance comprehension of policy interventions and provide insights and optimal solutions into climate change-driven conservation issues related to water resources and ecosystem.

Multi-objective decision of resource-ecosystem-economy and dynamic optimization of integrated reservoir watershed management, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2022CDSKXYJG007), China, PI:2022-2025
Sustainable natural resource allocation and watershed management of southwest China under the development of hydropower, Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (No. cstc2021jcyj-bsh0269), Chongqing, China, PI: 2021-2023
The Big Data Adaptation and Application of Integrated Watershed Management with Dynamic Optimization Methodology, Social Undertakings and Livelihood Security Science and Technology Innovation Funds (No. cstc2017shmsA20013), Chongqing, China, Co-PI: 2016-2019
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Award for Returned Overseas Faculty, Chongqing Municipal
Human Resources and Social Security Bureau 12/2021
Young Faculty International Exchange Award, Chongqing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau 12/2020
Graduate Assistantship, University of Connecticut 08/2013-05/2019
Paul Putnam Travel Award, University of Connecticut 08/2018
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut 12/2017
Doctoral Student Travel Award, University of Connecticut 10/2016
Paul Putnam Travel Award, University of Connecticut 07/2016
Student Scholarship, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 04/2016
Fellowship of the Dorothy Goodwin International Experience Fund, University of Connecticut 04/2015

Wang, F., J. He. and Niu, Y.* (2022) Role of Foreign Direct Investment and Fiscal Decentralization on Urban Haze
Pollution in China, Journal of Environmental Management, 305, 114287
Niu, Y.* and F.A. Shah (2021) Economics of Optimal Reservoir Capacity
Determination, Sediment Management, and Dam Decommissioning, Water Resources Research, 57(7), e2020WR028198