Jianjun Miao is a Tsingshan Chair Professor of Econnomics at School of Economics, Tsingshan Institute for Advanced Business Studies, and Academy of Financial Research, Zhejiang University. He was a former Professor of Economics at Boston University. He is a Fellow of SAET and a Senior Fellow of ABFER. He is an associate editor of Economic Theory and Macroeconomic Dynamics and a former associate editor of Quantitative Economics and Journal of Mathematical Economics. He is the founder of the China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM) and the China Forum of Macroeconomic Research.
Professor Miao received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992, his MA in economics from Zhongshan University in 1995, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2003. His research fields are macroeconomics and finance and their interface with decision theory, information economics, public finance, and industrial organization. His main research areas are the macroeconomic implications of bubbles and crashes, theory and applications of decision making under uncertainty, rational inattention, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policies, dynamic contracts, asset pricing, and corporate finance.
Professor Miao has published over 60 papers in major international journals, 6 of which are in top 5 economics journals American Economic Review and Econometrica, 2 are in top 3 science journals PNAS joint with Nobel Prize Winner Lars Hansen, 5 are in top 3 finance journals Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, 17 are in top economics journals such as American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, , Journal of Monetary Economics, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics. He published three books and won a best paper prize in 2009 CICF.