Regular biography
YU Jianfeng is a Chair Professor in the Department of Finance at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and has extensive experience in academic and industry roles. His research focuses on behavioral finance, asset pricing, and quantitative strategies. He has contributed to numerous high-impact journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. YU is also an associate editor for several finance journals and has held visiting professor positions at institutions such as HKUST and the University of Minnesota. His work has been recognized with various awards and honors.
Scholar-generated biography
Jianfeng Yu is a Chair Professor of Finance at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. His research focuses on asset pricing, behavioral finance, and macro finance, with an emphasis on understanding how investor sentiment, attention, and psychological factors influence financial markets. Yu's work explores anomalies in asset pricing, the role of behavioral biases in financial decisions, and the interplay between macroeconomic forces and financial markets. His publications examine topics such as the mean-variance relation, the forward premium puzzle, and the profitability premium, contributing to the understanding of market inefficiencies and investor behavior.