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Yu An

Yu An, PhD

Assistant Professor

Acadamic Area(s): Finance

Area(s) of Interest: Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediation

Yu An is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include asset pricing, with a particular focus on investor trading.

Education

  • Ph.D., Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • MS, Financial Mathematics, Stanford University
  • BA, Finance, Peking University
  • BS, Statistics, Peking University

Research

Selected publications

  • "Index Providers: Whales Behind the Scenes of ETFs” with Matteo Benetton and Yang Song, Journal of Financial Economics, Editor’s Choice, 2023
  • Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementations?” with Zhaogang Song, Review of Financial Studies, 2023

Working papers

  • “Intermediary Elasticity” with Amy Wang Huber, 2024.
  • “A Factor Framework for Cross-Sectional Price Impacts” with Yinan Su and Chen Wang, 2024. 
  • “An Axiomatic Approach to Informed Order Flow” with Zeyu Zheng, 2024.

Teaching

Current

  • Derivatives

Previous

  • Continuous Time Finance