Lin Peng

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Lin Peng holds the title of Krell Chair Professor of Finance at Baruch College, the City University of New York, where she also serves as the PhD program coordinator. She is also an associate editor for Management Science and the Journal of Empirical Finance, a visiting scholar at Princeton University, and a member of the management committee for the Keynes Fund for Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. 

Professor Peng has extensive expertise in the areas of investor attention, social networks, sustainable finance, and FinTech. Her expertise has been featured by media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, Institutional Investor, and the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment Newsletter. She has been named an honoree of AACSB's 2024 Influential Leaders for her research in advancing new knowledge and creating impact in business and society. Her research has been invited to be presented at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve Bank’s Board of Governors, European Securities and Markets Authority, Bank of England, China Securities Regulatory Commission, and many leading universities and numerous conferences in Economics, Finance, Accounting, and Law.

She has published her work in leading economics and finance journals, with many among the top 50 journals as ranked by the Financial Times, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance (lead article), Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. She has also won various grants and awards for her research, and Best Paper Awards at multiple leading conferences.