Finance

Faculty

YU Tong

Department of Finance     Assistant Professor

Phone:86-10-6278 6041

E-mail:yutong@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Educational Background

PhD in Finance, Imperial College London, 2025

MRes in Business (Finance), Imperial College London, 2019

MS in Finance and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2018

MS in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

BEc in Financial Engineering, Wuhan University, 2014

Personal Website: https://www.tong-yu.com


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Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, 2025 – present

Senior Associate (Researcher), UK Financial Conduct Authority, 2022 – 2024


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Courses

Empirical Corporate Finance (PhD program), Venture Capital and Private Equity (Master of Finance Program), Finance of Innovation (Master of Finance Program)


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Research Areas

Financial Intermediation, FinTech, Digital Finance, Banking, Corporate Finance, Financial Regulation, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Entrepreneurial Finance


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Publications

Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking, Journal of Financial Economics (July 2025), 169: 103950 (with Tania Babina, Saleem Bahaj, Greg Buchak, Filippo De Marco, Angus Foulis, Will Gornall, and Francesco Mazzola)


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Honors

Brattle Group Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association 2025

SANFI Best Paper on Banking, Spanish Finance Association Finance Forum 2025

Runner-up, Philipp Sandner Award in Digital Finance Research, Frankfurt School 2025


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