SIMIS-CDEF Seminar Series: Financial Markets in the Digital Age: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

Speaker: Liyan Yang (University of Toronto)

Time: 2026-01-12 15:00-17:00
Location: 18F-Meeting Room, SIMIS
Zoom Meeting ID: 898 0338 0067 Passcode: SIMIS

摘要:

Schedule        January 12th, 2026 (Monday)
Time        Session
3:00-3:10 PMWelcome & Introduction
3:10-3:50 PMSession I: Financial Markets in the Digital Age
3:10-3:50 PMChair: Qingfu Liu, Fudan University & SIMIS
                       Invited Talk: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto
3:50-4:00 PMTea Break
4:00-4:50 PMSession II: Roundtable Discussion
               Chair: Yahong Zhou, SUFE & SIMIS
4:50-5:00 PMClosing Remarks


About Speaker:

Professor Liyan Yang is a Professor of Finance and Peter L. Mitchelson/SIT Investment Associates Foundation Chair in Investment Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics). In 2010, Professor Yang received his Ph.D. in economics at Cornell University. His research interests mainly focus on financial markets, financial institutions, behavioral finance, data economics, and digital economy. He has received the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award and the Bank of Canada Governor’s Award. He is serving as a co-editor at Journal of Financial Markets and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is a current associate editor at Journal of Economic Theory and Management Science, and a former associate editor at Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is a senior fellow of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). He is a fellow of the Accounting and Economics Society, a fellow of Cornell FinTech Initiative, a fellow of HKUST Institute for Financial Research, a fellow of Luohan Academy, and a fellow of UIUC Office for Futures and Options Research. Professor Yang’s research has been published in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies, etc.

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