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Faculty Profile

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Jianfeng Hu is an internationally recognized finance scholar specializing in empirical derivatives, market microstructure, and asset pricing, with impactful research on information flow and trading in financial markets.

Bridges rigorous empirical analysis with real-world financial market dynamics, influencing both academic understanding and industry practice; recognized for methodological innovation and contributions to policy debates on market regulation, information dissemination, and investor protection.

Focused research areas include Investigates the informational role of equity options, price discovery mechanisms, order flow volatility, insider trading, and the effects of derivatives trading on corporate policies and investor welfare.
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Education

2013 Ph.D.Finance, Baruch College, CUNY

Current Position(s) Held

2021 - Now Associate Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2013 - 2021 Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Selected Publications

  • “Does option trading convey stock price information?" 2014. Journal of Financial Economics, 111, 625-645.
  • “Can information be locked-up? Informed trading ahead of macro-news announcements," with Gennaro Bernile and Yuehua Tang, 2016. Journal of Financial Economics, 121, 496-520
  • “Option listing and information asymmetry," 2018, Review of Finance, 22, 1153-1194.
  • “Order flow volatility and cost of equity capital," with Tarun Chordia, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, and Qing Tong, 2019, Management Science, 65, 1520-1551.
  • "Who profits from trading options", with Antonia Kirilova, Gilbert Park, and Doojin Ryu, 2023, Management Science, forthcoming.
  • "Information spillover and corporate policies: The case of listed options," with Gennaro Bernile, Guangzhong Li, and Roni Michaely, 2023, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2016 - 2017
  • Best Paper Award, 2015 Conference of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality.
  • Best Paper Award, 2014 International Conference on Corporate Finance and Capital Market.
  • The First Place Award, Chicago Quant Alliance Asia Academic Competition, 2014.
  • Oscar Lasdon Memorial Award for the best dissertation in finance, Baruch College, 2013
  • Best Doctoral Paper Award Northeast Business and Economics Association, 2010.
  • European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial, 2012 (8 out of 155 papers).
  • American Finance Association Travel Grant, 2011.
  • Financial Management Association Doctoral Consortium, 2011.
  • 2016 Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, main PI, “Estimating order flow using low freuency data", S$39,978.74.
  • 2016 Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, co-PI, “The value (or cost) of fiduciary duties: Evidence from en block sales in Singapore", S$32,422.
  • 2016 Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, co-PI, “Order flow volatility and cost of equity capital", S$16,813.
  • 2013 Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, main PI, “Law of one price revisited: Synthetic security and cash security", S$20,630.
  • 2013 Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, co-PI, “Can information be locked up? A natural experiment of the effect of macro-news embargos on capital markets. ", S$34,185.
  • CUNY Presidential Research Grant, 2011.
  • CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant, 2010, 2012.
  • Research Assistant Scholarship, Baruch College, CUNY, 2008-2012.

Research Advisor/ Co-research Advisor to

  • NEO Meng Hwee, (mhneo.2020@phdgm.smu.edu.sg), PhDGM
  • ZHONG Yiqiang, (yqzhong.2022@dba.smu.edu.sg), SMU-ZJU DBA(A&F)