Qihong Ruan (阮 启宏) qr33@cornell.edu | NBER   I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. I am working on FinTech, market microstructure, asset pricing, crypto and DeFi, AI and LLMs in finance. Committee: Prof. Maureen O'Hara (Co-chair), Lin William Cong (Co-chair), and Eswar Prasad. I am on the 2024-2025 job market.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University, Expected May 2025.

• M.S. in Econometrics, Xiamen University.

• B.A. in Finance, Sun Yat-sen University.

Research Papers

• Perpetual Contracts and Market Quality: Evidence from Cryptocurrencies

  Qihong Ruan, Artem Streltsov.

  Blog post.




• Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment

  Lin William Cong, Pulak Ghosh, Jiasun Li, Qihong Ruan.

  Video.

Work In Progress

• Using Vision Large Models to Understand Asset Returns

  Qihong Ruan.

• Systemic Risks in Financial Networks Under Strategic Attacks: Lessons from the Terra/Luna Meltdown

Qihong Ruan.

• The Battle of Hundreds of Large Language Models (百模大战)

Qihong Ruan.

Conferences and Presentations

• 6th UWA Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, 2024

• 19th Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM), 2024

• World Finance Conference, 2024

• Cornell Finance Brown Bag, 2024

• Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Workshop, 2024

• Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Rising Stars of Fintech, 2024 iCoauthor Presents

• Digital Economics and Financial Technology (DEFT) Lab Group Meeting, 2024

• Cornell Economics Department Placement Week, 2024

• Cryptocurrency Research Conference, 2024

• Northern Finance Association Conference, 2024

• Ripple University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), 2024

• China International Conference in Finance (CICF), 2024

• Hong Kong Conference for Fintech, AI, and Big Data in Business, 2024

• Tokenomics Conference, 2023

• IIMC-NYU Stern India Research Conference, 2023

• Ripple University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), 2023

• Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Workshop, 2023

• Emerging Markets Institute - PhD Research Day, 2022

• Cornell University, The Works In Progress Seminar (TWIPS), 2022-Present

• Cornell University, Third-year Economics PhD Research Seminar, 2021-2022

• The 4th Annual Xiamen University International Workshop on Economic Analysis of Institutions, 2016

Teaching Experience

I have been a Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses, including:

• Introductory Macroeconomics

• Financial Markets

• Public Finance

• Probability Theory

• Experimental Economics

• Econometrics

• Econometrics and Statistics

• Advanced Econometrics

• Demystifying FinTech and Big Data

I have won the Best Teaching Assistant Award for my teaching.

Professional Experience

• Ripple XRPL Grants on AI and Blockchain, Judge, 2024.

• Cryptocurrency Research Conference, Section Chair, 2024.

• The Initiative For Cryptocurrencies & Contracts, Member, 2024. IC3: Advancing The Science And Applications Of Blockchains.

• XueShuo-DEFT Academy Summer Institute in Digital Finance in Beijing, Volunteer, 2024. Chinese Articles.

• Digital Economics and Financial Technology (DEFT) Lab, Member, 2023-present. The SEC Allegations Against Binance and Coinbase.

• Conference on Emerging Technologies in Accounting and Financial Economics (CETAFE), Volunteer, 2023.

• Cornell FinTech Initiative, Student Fellow, 2022-2023. Cornell Convenes Digital Assets Roundtable Whitepaper.

• Finance Theory Group (FTG) Annual Conference, Volunteer, 2022.

• Research Assistant on Econometrics of Evaluation-Approximation-Maximization (EAM) Algorithm, Spring 2021.

• Summer School on Applied Microeconometrics, Shanghai, 2016.

Publication

• Intraday Pattern of Option Time Value and Pricing Efficiency

  Zhenlong Zheng, Liping Yang, Qihong Ruan

  Journal of Applied Statistics and Management (数理统计与管理), 2021, 40(5), pp.914-931.

• Does Differentiated Dividend Tax Effectively Curb Speculation?

  Qihong Ruan, Aimei Zhai

  The South China Journal of Economics (南方经济), 2015, 33(6), pp.19-39.