Vita

Dr. Xiaoji Lin is the US Bancorp Professor in Financial Markets and Institutions and a Professor of Finance at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is also a Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). Prior to joining Minnesota, Dr. Lin taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Ohio State University. His research spans asset pricing, corporate finance, and macroeconomics, and his work has been published at prestigious academic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. Dr. Lin's doctoral thesis won the Trefftzs award at the 2008 Western Finance Association annual meetings. He is also the recipient of the Carlson School Outstanding Research Award (2021) and the International Research Excellence Award of China International Risk Forum (2022).