Faculty Profile

Lee Kong Chian School of Business

Full-time Faculty

Associate Professor of Finance; Mapletree Fellow in Real Estate

2012	Ph.D. in Economics, University of California Berkeley
2006	B.A. in Economics, Tsinghua University

2021 - Now	Associate Professor of Finance Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2019 - 2021	Assistant Professor of Finance Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2020 - 2021	Lee Kong Chian Fellow, Singapore Management University
2012 - 2018	Assistant Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore

Financial Illiteracy and Pension Contributions: A Field Experiment on Compound Interest in China, Review of Financial Studies, Volume 33, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 916-949.
Do Real Estate Agents Have Information Advantages in Housing Markets? (with Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, and Tien Foo Sing), Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 134, Issue 3, December 2019, Pages 715-735.
Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore (with Jia He, Haoming Liu, Tien Foo Sing, and Wei-Kang Wong), Management Science, Volume 66, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 783-804.
Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China (with Yufeng Li, Juanjuan Meng, and Kai Zheng), Management Science, forthcoming
High Sex Ratios and Household Portfolio Choice in China (with Wenchao Li, Shu Xu, and Junjian Yi), Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming
Benefits of Relationship Banking: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets (with Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Chunlin Liu, and Nicholas S. Souleles), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 96, June 2018, Pages 16-32.
Do disaster experience and knowledge affect insurance take-up decisions? (with Jing Cai), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 124, January 2017, Pages 83-94.

ccsong@smu.edu.sg

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