Biography

Bo Sun is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She studies economic effects of information frictions and uncertainty. Her research often uses game-theoretic approach to address policy-relevant questions. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. Her findings have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Brookings, Chicago Booth Review, Deutsche Bank Research, and the Barclay Insider Report. She also published articles in policy outlets including the Liberty Street Economics of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and FEDS Notes of the Board of Governors. 

Prior to joining UVA Darden, Bo was a Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She currently serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. She is a fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia and B.A. in Finance and Mathematics from Peking University.