2026 IFS SUMMER PROGRAM
Topic：From Local Views to Global Reality: Rethinking Asset Pricing Through Revealed Preferences
Speaker: Xi Dong, Associate Professor of Finance at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Time: Friday, July 10, 2026, 14:00-15:30
Location: Conference Room 202, Institute of Financial Studies (Guanghua Campus), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
About the speaker：
Xi Dong is an Associate Professor of finance at Baruch College, City University of New York. Before joining Baruch, he was an Assistant Professor at INSEAD in France and Singapore, and global investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston USA. He studies frictions that distort financial and economic outcomes, aiming not just to understand these inefficiencies, but to actively drive academic insight into real-world impact—pushing the frontier of how finance can help reshape a more efficient world. His works have been published at top academic journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, as well as premier practitioner journals such as Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Investing. His work bridging time-series and cross-sectional return predictability has produced one of the 25 most-cited articles published in The Journal of Finance over the past five years, underscoring its broad and lasting influence on the field.
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