Jeffrey Sun, whose research focuses on the economic consequences of climate change, joined the Department of Economics on July 1, 2024. The new Assistant Professor recently completed his PhD at Princeton. His job market paper explored the implications of exposure to environmental events on the financial health of families whose assets are concentrated in their homes. During his assistantship in instruction, Sun gained experience in teaching introductory and intermediate macroeconomics, as well as undergraduate corporate finance.

“The University of Toronto has become an exciting place to do climate research. There is a huge department here with fantastic researchers studying all aspects of the economy,” Professor Sun said. “And many have become interested in applying those tools to pressing questions of how climate change will affect the specific slice of the economy that they understand well. You can almost see a new kind of structural climate economics taking shape here, and I could not be more excited to be a part of it.”

In Sun’s courses, future students can look forward to an instructional style rooted in purpose-driven learning communities. [Read more…]