Dong Yan

Dong Yan is an Associate Professor of Finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Research Fellow of the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF). Before joining SAIF, she held positions as an Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. 
Her research areas include corporate finance, corporate investment, the real effects of financial markets, private firms, and M&A. Her work has been published in leading journals, such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance, and has received several honors, including the 2024 IQAM Prize for the best investment paper published in the Review of Finance and the 2025 Pagano and Zechner Prize for the best non-investment paper published in the Review of Finance.