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. [Read more…]