The 30-year-old Chinese Ph.D. Fan Yiran's posthumous work has been accepted by top academic journals in economics

2021/05/1123:42:34 education 244

The Paper reporter Zhong Yuhao

In January this year, Fan Yiran, a 30-year-old Chinese student studying at the University of Chicago, was killed in a shooting. According to the website "Journal of Political Economy", the top academic journal of economics has officially accepted Fan Yiran's paper "The Interaction of Bankers' Asset and Liability Management with Liquidity Concerns" at the end of April this year.

The 30-year-old Chinese Ph.D. Fan Yiran's posthumous work has been accepted by top academic journals in economics - DayDayNews

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"Journal of Political Economy" or "Journal of Political Economy" (JPE), the editor of the journal mourned that this paper showed Fan Yiran's ongoing research, and said that this talented scholar was taken away prematurely life.

On January 9, local time, a 32-year-old African-American gunman opened fire in a series of shootings in Chicago, USA, resulting in 3 deaths and 4 injuries. Yiran Fan, a 30-year-old Chinese student studying at the University of Chicago, was shot and killed by police. Fan Yiran, an international student killed by

, graduated from the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University with a bachelor's degree. During the undergraduate period, he also took a double degree in philosophy; later, he studied at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and the University of Chicago in the United States.

The Guanghua School of Management Branch of Peking University Alumni Association said in mourning that Yiran entered the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University in 2008 to study for a bachelor’s and master’s degree. Afterwards, Yiran went to the United Kingdom and the United States for further studies, and devoted herself to the fields of economics and finance. However, her doctoral degree is about to graduate. We have lost an outstanding alumni, and the field of economic and financial research has lost a rising star who loves academics and is full of potential!

In addition, Lars Peter Hansen, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a Nobel laureate in economics lamented, "Fan Yiran is my best graduate student, my best colleague, and a very good person.Hansen said that Fan Yiran is an invaluable intellectual resource for the economics and finance community, and he has always been committed to helping his students and classmates learn, and he uses the tools and insights of corporate finance theory and economic dynamics to study financial institutions and market regulation. I am writing an excellent paper.

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