Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate, Economics, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009 - present
  • B.Sc. with honors, Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2005-2009

Research Interests

Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediaries, Macro-Finance

Working Papers

  • A Labor Capital Asset Pricing Model, with Lars-Alexander Kuehn and Mikhail Simutin, 2012
    • -Best Paper Award at the 2013 ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference
    -WRDS Award for an Outstanding Paper in Asset Pricing Research at the 2013 Midwest Finance Association Meeting
  • Asset Pricing with Dynamic Labor Contracts, 2010

Conference/Workshop Presentations

  • 2013: ASU Sonoran Winter Conference, CMU Macro-finance Workshop, Midwest Finance Association Meeting (scheduled)
  • 2012: Macro/Finance Seminar with Prof. Kydland, Western Economic Association International, Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings
  • 2011: World Finance Conference, 11th SAET Conference, CMU Macro-finance Workshop
  • 2010: CMU Macro-finance Workshop

Discussions

  • Concentrated Ownership and Equilibrium Asset Prices, by Valentin Haddady, Midwest Finance Association Meeting, Chicago, March 2013
  • Industry Technological Upgrading and Wage Spillover in China, by Hao-Chung Li and Jennjou Chen, Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, June, 2012
  • Market Selection and Welfare in a Multi-Asset Economy, by Yurii Fedyk, Christian Heyerdahl Larsen and Johan Walden, World Finance Conference II, Rhodes, Greece, June 2011

Professional Services

  • Program Committee Member, Eastern Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2013
  • Session Chair, Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, June, 2012
  • Session Chair, World Finance Conference II, Rhodes, Greece, June 2011

Academic Awards

  • Best Paper Award at the 2013 ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference, 2013
  • WRDS Award for an Outstanding Paper in Asset Pricing Research, 2013
  • William L. Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2009-2012
  • GSA Conference Funding Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2012
  • Excellent Graduate Award, Tsinghua University, China, 2009
  • National Fellowship, Tsinghua University, China, 2008
  • National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2007
  • Finland National Fellowship, Helsinki School of Economics, 2007
  • First Prize Academic Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2006
  • Ranked 2nd/166000 in the National College Entrance Exam, Jilin, China, 2005

Computer Skills

  • Matlab, STATA, SAS, C, PERL, LaTeX