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Bisetti, Emilio, Stefan Lewellen, Arkodipta Sarkar, and Xiao Zhao. (2026). Smokestacks and the Swamp, Review of Financial Studies.

(Claire) Yurong Hong, Xiaomeng Lu and Jun Pan. (2025). Financial Inclusion via FinTech: From Digital Payments to Platform Investments. Management Science, Accepted.

Francisco Gomes, Cameron Peng, Oksana Smirnova and Ning Zhu. (2025). Reaching for yield: Evidence from households. Journal of Financial Economics, 168, No. 104057.

Billet, Mathew, Mark (Shuai) Ma, and Xiaoyun Yu. (2024). Torpedo Your Competition: Strategic Reporting and Peer Firm IPO. The Accounting Review, 99(6), 51-73.

He, L., Whited, T. M., & Guo, R. (2025). Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition. Review of Financial Studies. Advance online publication.

Nan Jia, Rongrong Xie, Yongxiang Wang and Nianhang Xu,. 2025. Spreading the Style: The Effect of Firm Leaders' Early Life Experiences on Employees' Behavior and Performance, Management Science.

Hong, Claire Yurong, Xiaomeng Lu, and Jun Pan. (2024). Fintech Platforms and Mutual Fund Distribution. Management Science, Published Online.

Chen, Kedong, Hung‐Chung Su, Kevin Linderman, and William Li. (2024). Last‐minute coordination: Adapting to demand to support last‐mile operations. Journal of Operations Management, Accepted.

Smokestacks and the Swamp

Review of Financial Studies, 2026

ZHAO, Xiao Assistant Professor of Finance

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Financial Inclusion via FinTech: From Digital Payments to Platform Investments

Management Science, 2025

HONG, Yurong Associate Professor of Finance

PAN, Jun Professor of Finance
SAIF Chair Professor

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Reaching for yield: Evidence from households

Journal of Financial Economics, 2025

ZHU, Ning Professor of Finance

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Torpedo Your Competition: Strategic Reporting and Peer Firm IPO

The Accounting Review, 2024

YU, Xiaoyun Chair Professor of Finance
Deputy Dean

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Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition

Review of Financial Studies, 2025

GUO, Ran Assistant Professor of Finance

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Spreading the Style: The Effect of Firm Leaders' Early Life Experiences on Employees' Behavior and Performance

Management Science, 2025

WANG, Yongxiang Chair Professor of Finance
Deputy Dean
Ph.D. Program Faculty Director

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Fintech Platforms and Mutual Fund Distribution

Management Science, 2024

HONG, Yurong Associate Professor of Finance

PAN, Jun Professor of Finance
SAIF Chair Professor

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Last-minute coordination: Adapting to demand to support last-mile operations

Journal of Operations Management, 2024

LI, William Chair Professor of Management

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NEWS

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SAIF Faculty Showcase Research Excellence at the 13th ABFER Annual Conference

The 13th Annual Conference of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) convened in Singapore from May 18-21, 2026, bringing together leading financial economists from around the world for scholarly exchange.

June 24, 2026 MORE →

SAIF MF Student Yi-an Deng's Paper Published in AMJ

Yi-an Deng, a student in the Master of Finance (MF) program, Class of 2024 at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), recently had his co-authored paper “Time the Surge: Theorizing and Examining Team Pacing in

June 23, 2026 MORE →

2026 SAIF Annual Research Conference Successfully Concluded

As a vital platform for global finance scholarship, the SAIF Annual Research Conference continues to convene global expertise, promote academic exchange, advance frontier exploration in financial research, and broaden scholarly horizons.

June 22, 2026 MORE →

SAIF Sets New Record Ranked 6th in Financial Times Masters in Finance

This achievement marks the program’s third consecutive year in the world’s top 10, cementing SAIF’s reputation as a premier provider of finance education.

June 21, 2026

Dean of Nanyang Business School Leads Delegation to SAIF

Both sides reached a preliminary consensus on deepening cooperation, beginning with executive programs that draw on their complementary strengths and the distinctive China-Singapore dynamic itself, to open a new chapter in their partnership.

May 20, 2026

Review of Financial Studies Publishes Professor Xiao Zhao’s Latest Paper

A paper titled “Smokestacks and the Swamp” by Xiao Zhao, Assistant Professor of Finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), together with Emilio Bisetti, Stefan Lewellen, and Arkodipta Sarkar, has been published online in The Review of Finan

May 19, 2026

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