Assistant Professor of Finance at National Taiwan U. | Household Finance, Behavioral Finance | PhD in Finance @Baruch_Zicklin | MSc Fin&Econ @LSEfinance
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Who Knows? Information Access and Endogenous Network Formation" by Laura Derksen and Pedro CL Souza. https://t.co/QLDzWrDjPr
Professor John C. Hull died on January 31, 2026. He was an internationally recognized authority on derivatives and risk management. He will be very fondly remembered and sadly missed. https://t.co/xT1ieajr65
Recently accepted by #QJE: “(Not) Thinking About the Future: Financial Information and Maternal Labor Supply,” by Costa-Ramón (@anacostaramon), Slotwinski (@MichaelaSlotwi1), Schaede, and Brenøe: https://t.co/0lkmdLPcdb
TWIMC, I've updated my PhD Applied Econometrics teaching slides to the 2024 edition.
Feel free to use, and any feedback is always welcome!
https://t.co/1BaNiPm5Ot
@JhengShao Harrison Hong and Jeremy Stein show that individuals more actively engaged in social interactions, such as attending church, exhibit higher rates of stock market participation.
https://t.co/hypEd32Jk3
A bunch of faculty are hiring full-time RAs, for starting next summer 2025, at Booth! Here's the posting! If you're a student, come apply! If you're a faculty, send us your best students! And ping me if you have any questions!
We are excited to announce the Fall 2024
@workshopefi schedule.
We'll host four excellent papers. Presentations start Sept. 23rd at noon ET.
Schedule: https://t.co/U88re1gfkq
Sign up to email announcements: https://t.co/nFBrZ3QJkP
A 🧵on each paper follows:
🚨New WP Alert🚨
@JenKuanWang and I analyze Taiwan's 1950s land reform, long seen as central to its economic takeoff—and to the East Asian Miracle.
By digitizing archival data, we bring new causal evidence to the table. What we find is surprising!
https://t.co/SKpYkioIBn
We held the 4th edition of the Big-Data Initiative in International Macro and Finance.
There is a new website with all the slides, videos, codes, and data. A starter kit for anyone interested in doing research in international macro:
Take a look: https://t.co/9yJjdm1dDC
** Dataset on historical US inflation expectations
The Michigan survey of consumers’ expected inflation series is heavily used but starts only in 1978. There are data from the same survey starting in 1948 but harder to access. This page makes it available.
https://t.co/lDarWPZ6OG
Matthew Gentzkow is hiring full-time #predoc to begin in Summer 2025 at @SIEPR@StanfordEcon. We provide skills needed for success in econ PhDs. Econ background is not necessary.
See details and apply here!
https://t.co/iAOnn6rsoO
@econ_ra@predoc_org
I didn't know this paper...
>300 people refereed the same economics paper, with author listed as
1. an early career scholar
2. anonymous
3. a Nobel laureate (from same university as 1)
Recommendations:
65% reject for early career scholar,
23% reject for Nobel laureate
😑
📢 Congratulations to @LinPengFin & co-authors for winning 1st place in Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance Research Prize!
'News Diffusion in Social Networks & Stock Market Reactions'
Accepted by 'The Review of Financial Studies' too.
#KeynesFund
➡️ https://t.co/H3vsJEuy14
Excited to share our new paper on the design, implementation, and analysis of social media experiments!
These experiments let researchers study digital platforms without needing firm collaboration. We hope it's useful to grad students and anyone else who's social media curious!