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 Publications:
Colonial Legacy and Informal Finance (with Chen Lin, Mingzhu Tai)
Management Science. 2024.
Epidemic Disease and Financial Development (with Chen Lin, 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.
The Leverage of Terrorists on Democratic Regimes (with Shiqi Guo, Ruoran Zhao)
Journal of Law and Economics. 2025.
Global Inequality in Infrastructure Access and Associated Disparity in Health Outcomes (with Ying Tu, Bin Chen, Shengbiao Wu, Chen Lin, Hong Wei, Bing Xu, Peng Gong)
Nature Human Behaviour. 2025.
The Interplay of Nature and 3D Urban Structures Reduces Human Access to Sunlight (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Shengbiao Wu, Peng Gong)
Nature Cities. 2024.
ChatGPT: Tackle the Growing Carbon Footprint of Generative AI (with Wenzhi Ding, Chen Lin)
Nature. 2023.
Optimize Urban Shade Using Digital Twins of Cities (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Peng Gong)
Nature. 2023.
Measuring Gender and Racial Biases in LLMs (with Chen Lin, Difang Huang, Mingzhu Tai)
PNAS Nexus. 2025.
Is There an Employee-based Gender Gap in Informal Financial Markets? International Evidence (Single Author)
Journal of Corporate Finance. 2020.
Foreign-aided Infrastructure and Local Employment: Evidence from China's Aid to Africa (with Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang)
Journal of Comparative Economics. 2024.
Epidemic Disease and Innovation (with Ruoran Zhao, and Boyang Chen)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2025.
The Psychological Cost of War: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion (with Tenghui Wang, Chen Lin, Bin Chen, Peng Gong)
JAMA Network Open. 2025.
Selected Working Papers:
In Utero Exposure to Extreme Heat Increases Neonatal Mortality (with Tenghui Wang, Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Peng Gong, Chris Webster)
Revised & Resubmitted. 2025.
Impact of Women's Political Empowerment on Improved Water Access ( with Tenghui Wang, Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Peng Gong, Nils Stenseth)
PNAS. Accepted. 2025.
Overlooked Deforestation from Global Mining Activities in the 21st Century (with Xiaoxin Zhang, Bin Chen, Chen Lin)
Revised & Resubmitted. 2025.
Measuring Global Human Access to Essential Daily Necessities and Services (with Shengbiao Wu, Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Andrew Nelson, Fan Dai, Peng Gong)
Revised & Resubmitted. 2025.
Do Managers Withhold Bad News? Evidence from Terror Attacks (with Jiandong Chen, Shiqi Guo, Lai Wei, Zaheer Khan, Jiaman Xu)
Reject & Resubmit. 2025.
Data Colonialism 2.0: The AI Era's Hidden Cost
Under Review. 2025.
Tax Laws, Investor Horizons, and Corporate Sustainable Investment (with Haijing Liu, Cheng Yan)
Under Review. 2025.
Access to Public Markets and Trade Credit Provision: Evidence from IPO suspensions (with Jiaman Xu, Tianxi Wang, Senyu Wang)
Under Review. 2025.
Risk Preference, Trust, and Innovation: The Lingering Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (with Xianda Liu, Mao Li)
Under Review. 2025.
China's Railway Photovoltaic Potential for Sustainable Urban-Rural Energy Transition (with Han Wang, Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Peng Gong)
Revise & Resubmit. 2025.
Three Decade Mapping of Brick Kilns in the Asian Brick Belt (with Xidong Chen, Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Usman Nazir, Nils Stenseth, Peng Gong)
I can be contacted at: jiafuan at hku.hk