Jiangdong (Tony) Hu

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. My research spans both economics and finance.

In economics, my research focuses on public finance and urban economics, with particular emphasis on how institutional structures shape social and economic outcomes.

In finance, my work centers on empirical asset pricing across global assets, including equities, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. 

My current work explores how new information can be uncovered from underexplored financial textual data,  leveraging advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate novel insights in the modern era of AI.