Title: Financial Markets with Information Frictions

Speaker: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto

Time: July 12th, 2019 10:30–11:30

Venue: Conference Room 106B, Zhonghui Building (IESR, JNU College of Economics)

About the speaker:

Liyan Yang is a Professor of Finance and Peter L. Mitchelson/SIT Investment Associates Foundation Chair in Investment Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. His research interests are in financial markets, asset pricing, and behavioral finance. Liyan Yang has published widely in  such journals as Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies, and he is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, and Management Science.

Yang has received the 2016 JFQA William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research, the 2016 Bank of Canada’s Governor’s Award, and the 2015 Roger Martin Award for Excellence in Research.

In 2010, he obtained Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University.