Employment:
2024--now : Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Education:
2015-2021: University of Edinburgh, MSc & Ph.D in Finance
Committee Members: Franklin Allen (Imperial College London), Brian Main (University of Edinburgh)
Selected Working Papers:
Foreign-aided Infrastructure and Local Employment: Evidence from China's Aid to Africa (with Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang)
Revise and Resubmit. 2024.
Vegetation Phenology and Human Mobility Modify Urban Residents' Exposure to Greenspace (with Bin Chen, Shengbiao Wu, Yimeng Song, Chris Webster, Chen Lin, Peng Gong)
Revise and Resubmit. 2024.
The Interplay of Nature and 3D Urban Structures Reduces Human Access to Sunlight (with Bin Chen, Shengbiao Wu, Chen Lin, Peng Gong)
Revise and Resubmit. 2024.
Selected Publications:
Colonial Legacy and Informal Finance (with Chen Lin, Mingzhu Tai)
Management Science. 2024.
Epidemic Disease and Financial Development (with Chen Lin and Wenxuan Hou)
Journal of Financial Economics. 2022.
Does Terrorism Make People Pessimistic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Shiqi Guo)
Journal of Development Economics. 2022.
Assessing Multifaceted Impacts of Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam Destruction (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Yufei Huang, Xidong Chen, Shengbiao Wu, Peng Gong)
Science Bulletin. 2024.
ChatGPT: Tackle the Growing Carbon Footprint of Generative AI (with Wenzhi Ding and Chen Lin)
Nature. 2023.
Is There an Employee-based Gender Gap in Informal Financial Markets? International Evidence (Single Author)
Journal of Corporate Finance. 2020.
Assessing Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Agricultural Production using Publicly Satellite Imagery (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Ying Tu, Shengbiao Wu, Peng Gong)
Communications Earth & Environment. 2024.
Optimize Urban Shade Using Digital Twins of Cities (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, and Peng Gong)
Nature. 2023.
Professional Norms and Risk-taking of Bank Employees (with Jiaman Xu and Mengfei Jiang)
Journal of Financial Stability. 2021.
Inherited Trust and Informal Finance (with Jiaman Xu, Mengfei Jiang and Jiandong Chen)
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 2023.
I can be contacted at: jiafuan at ln.edu.hk