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Faculty Profile

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SUN Jian

Assistant Professor of Finance; (with courtesy appointment in the School of Economics)

LKCSBSOEFull-time Faculty

Email
jiansun@smu.edu.sg

Research Areas

  • Lee Kong Chian School of Business
    • Finance
      • Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
      • Financial Innovation and FinTech
      • Market Microstructure
      • Banking and Financial Intermediation
  • School of Economics
    • Applied Microeconomics
      • Industrial Organisation
    • Microeconomic Theory
      • Mechanism Design
      • Game Theory

Strategic Priorities

  • Digital Transformation

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Education

2022Ph.D. in Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
2016M.S. in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Toulouse School of Economics     
2014 B.S. in Economics, Tsinghua University                                                                                                                                

Current Position(s) Held

July 2022 - Now Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Best Paper Award for Doctoral Students, The 2022 Annual Conference in Digital Economics.
  • MIT Sloan PhD Fellowship, 2016-2022.
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship, Toulouse School of Economics, 2015.
  • Comprehensive First Prize Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2012.
  • Gold Medal, Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), 2009.

Research Interests

  • Market Microstructure
  • Corporate Finance Theory
  • Information Economics and Information Design

Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • Would Order‐By‐Order Auctions Be Competitive?, Thomas Ernst, Chester Spatt, Jian Sun, The Journal of Finance 80 (4), 1879-1927, 2025
  • From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?, Gideon Saar, Jian Sun, Ron Yang, Haoxiang Zhu, The Review of Financial Studies 36 (2), 678-732, 2023
  • Learning from Manipulable Signals, Mehmet Ekmekci, Leandro Gorno, Lucas Maestri, Jian Sun, Dong Wei, American Economic Review 112 (12), 3995-4040, 2022

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