Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
Research Interests：Applied microeconomics, international economics, environmental economics, political and law economics, economic networks, econometrics.
Employment
Associate Professor (tenured) 2023 – Present
Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (dual appointment)
Assistant Professor 2015 – 2023
HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
Adjunct Professor (during Ph.D.) 2014
State University of New York
Education
Economics Ph.D. 2015, Columbia University, New York, Concentration: Finance
Dissertation Committee: Patrick Bolton, Ailsa Röell, José Scheinkman, Dan J. Wang, Tri Vi Dang
Economics M.Phil. 2012 & Economics M.A. 2011, Columbia University, New York
Economics B.A. 2009, Tsinghua University, Beijing
National Experimental Class of Science 2005, Ministry of Education of P.R.C., Shanghai
Concentration: Biology, Chemistry
Awarded Research Funds and Grants
HK General Research Fund (GRF), University Grants Committee, 2022-2023
HK General Research Fund (GRF), University Grants Committee, 2018-2019
HK General Research Fund (ECS), University Grants Committee, 2016-2017
Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Project Fund, HKU, 2016
Matching Fund, HKU, 2015
Seed Fund, HKU, 2015
Academic Service
Ad-hoc referees for:
WFA (x3), MS (x2), RFS, RF, JBF (x4), JCF, JEF, AEJ, JIMF, JCE, etc.
Discussant at many conferences
Western Finance Association (WFA) Program Committee 2022
Western Finance Association (WFA) Program Committee 2021
Session Chair, 2019 FMA European Conference, Glasgow, UK 2019
Master Dissertation Committee Chair, Central Univ. of Fin. and Econ., Beijing, China 2019
Session Chair, 31st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia 2018
Session Chair, Shanghai Lixin Workshop on Law and Finance, Shanghai, China 2018
Session Chair, 2018 Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, Hue City, Vietnam 2018
Trade Session Chair, China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Wuhan, China 2017
Certificates
Executive Education 2016
Harvard Business School, Boston
Summer Session 2008
UC Berkeley, California
Professional Affiliations
American Economic Association (AEA)
Royal Economic Society
Econometric Society
American Finance Association (AFA)
European Finance Association (EFA)
Western Finance Association (WFA)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Academic Awards and Prizes
Faculty Research Postgraduate Supervision Award, The University of Hong Kong 2022
Bureau van Dijk prize in Corporate Finance, 34th UNSW Australian Finance and Banking Conference 2021
Faculty Research Postgraduate Supervision Award, The University of Hong Kong 2021
Bureau van Dijk prize in Corporate Finance, 31st UNSW Australian Finance and Banking Conference 2018
Summer Stipend, Columbia University, 2009-2015
Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 2009-2015
Meritorious Winner (top 2-12%), American Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2008
Comprehensive Scholarship Award, Tsinghua University 2008
First Prize, Chinese Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2007
China Construction Bank Fellowship, Tsinghua University 2007
First Academic Scholarship, Tsinghua University 2006
Bronze Award, 13th National High School Biology Olympiad (Winter Camp) 2004
3rd Place (Shanghai) and First Prize, National High School Biology Olympiad 2004
1st Place (Nationwide) and First Prize, National Middle School Math Olympiad 2001
3rd Place (Anhui) and First Prize, National Middle School Chemistry Olympiad 2001
University Service
Master of Finance FinTech Admissions Committee, HKU
Master of Finance FinTech Curriculum Development Committee, HKU
Faculty Information Technology Committee, HKU
Finance Area Brown Bag Seminar Organizer, HKU
Teaching Experience
Seminars on Advanced Topics in Finance, master, Tsinghua University 2024
Cryptography and Network Security, master, Tsinghua University 2024
Research on Frontier Issues in Finance, master, Tsinghua University 2023
Advanced Financial Programming and Databases, master, HKU 2017-2022
Financial Programming and Databases, undergrad, HKU 2017-2022
Corporate Finance, undergrad, HKU 2016-2022
Money and Banking, master and undergrad, State University of New York 2014
Financial Management, master and undergrad, State University of New York 2014
Microeconomics, master, Columbia University (TA) 2010
Corporate Finance, master and undergrad, Columbia University (TA) 2010-2015
Statistics of Sustainability Management, master, Columbia University (TA) 2011
Principles of Economics, undergrad, Columbia University (TA) 2012/2011
Principles of Economics, undergrad, Tsinghua University (TA) 2008
Placement of Supervised PhDs
Wang, Youan (Xiamen University, Assistant Professor, 2022)
Yu, Luping (Xiamen University, Assistant Professor, 2021)
Placement of Past RAs
Chien, Ho Yin (Cornell master, Cornell PhD)
Lau, Chun Pong Conroy (HSBC, LSE master, U Chicago PhD)
Li, Yan (HKU, PhD)
Liu, Po-Yu (HKU, PhD)
Wang, Youan (HKU, PhD)
Yadav, Nitesh (UC Irvine, PhD)
Yu, Luping (HKU, PhD)
Gu, Huaqing (Columbia, master)
Li, Yuanhao (Princeton, master)
Wang, Yung-Kuang (LSE, master)
Zheng, Weiran (Johns Hopkins, master)
He, Junyang (U Virginia, undergrad)
Li, Yiting (USC, undergrad)
U, Kaicheng (Emory, undergrad)
Wang, Jinyi (U Michigan, undergrad)
Zhang, Jingjing (Columbia, undergrad)
Khandelwal, Chetanya (BCG)
Rana, Tariq (BoA)
Tsui, Matthew (BlackRock)
Wang, Ching-Yuan (Goldman Sachs)