The Department of Economics has appointed Runjing Lu to the role Assistant Professor of Financial Economics. Professor Lu joins the University of Toronto from the University of Alberta where she started her career after completing her PhD at the University of California, San Diego in 2020. Lu’s teaching experience concentrates on upper-year undergraduate courses in investment principles and financial accounting as well as financial economics.
Lu’s research interests span empirical finance, political economics, and social media. Her mostrecent studies focus on how political and social media sentiment affect markets and households. Results from one of the papers can be reviewed in the upcoming publication “The Social Signal” in the Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 158, to be released in August 2024.
Lu looks forward to working with other faculty members and experieing the vibrancy of city life in Toronto. Future students can look forward to equally vibrant courses that move quickly with Lu. As a PhD candidate with the Department of Economics at UCSD, Lu won both the Associate in Teaching Award in 2018 and the Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for 2016-2017.
“I am a naturally fast speaker,” Lu said. “My teaching philosophy is to promote student-centered learning and give agency to students.”
That teaching philosophy will extend to course organization and management.
“Teaching assistants and I will have open communication and regular meetings to seek help and offer help to each other and our students,” she explained.
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