YU Yang
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
LKCSB
Education
| 2018 | Ph.D., Finance, INSEAD, France and Singapore |
| 2012 | Bachelor of Science (with distinction) in Economics, Minor in English Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China |
Current Position(s) Held
| Jul 2018 - Now | Assistant Professor of Finance Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University |
Awards, Recognition and Honors
- Winner of WRDS best conference paper award at EFMA, 2024
- Winner of Australian Stock Exchange PrIze for the best paper on Derivatives at AFBC, 2024
- SMU Most Promising Teacher Award Nomination, 2022
- Dean’s Teaching Honour List, 2021
- Runner-up in the 2019 Toronto FinTech Conference, 2019
Research Interests
- FinTech
- Financial Intermediaries
Selective Research
1. “Do Bank CEOs Learn From Crisis Experiences?” , Journal of Financial Economics, 166, 104009
2. "Bank Competition amid Digital Disruption: Implications for Financial Inclusion", with Erica Xuewei Jiang, Jinyuan Zhang, forthcoming at Journal of Finance
3. “Flight to Bitcoin” with Yanlin Bao, Jinyuan Zhang
4. "Retail Option Trading and Market Quality: Evidence from High-Frequency Data", with James O′Donovan, Jinyuan Zhang
5. "Grand Theft Identity: The Privacy Costs of Digitalization", with Kenny Phua, Chishen Wei
6. "One Size Does Not Fit All: Contract Design in FinTech Lending", with Jianfeng Hu, Changcheng Song
