Thursday 7th December 2017
18.30 – 20.00
OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, Old Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Based on China's specific economic development condition, institutional and technological background, a unique gradualism or dual-track reform strategy, has been applied to China's financial market opening, financial policy design, and financial system management. After the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, we can foresee that (1) financial market reform and opening will be greatly enhanced, (2) financial regulation will be centralized and coordinated, and (3) anti-corruption in financial sector will be strengthened and emphasized.
Hao Zhou is the Unigroup Chair Professor and Associate Dean of the PBC School of Finance, the director of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Research Center & New Structural Financial Economics Research Center, and the Vice Chair of National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University. Before 2013, he was a senior economist at Federal Reserve Board. He received a PhD degree in economics from Duke University in 2000.
Hao’s research agenda covers variance risk premiums on stock, bond, currency, and credit markets, stochastic volatility and asset pricing models, realized jumps on financial market and asset pricing puzzles, systemic risk and macro-prudential regulation of financial institutions, China financial markets and reforms. He has published in Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, among other leading academic journals.
His research has been recognized by numerous academic and professional awards, as well as the Best Teaching and Mentoring Award for graduate students by Tsinghua University. Notably, Hao was elected to the elite Thousand Talents Program in China and currently serves as the deputy director of its subcommittee on economics, finance, and management. He is also the general secretary for the review committee of Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award.
