Jianjun Miao is a world-class Chinese economist, Tsingshan Chair Professor at School of Economics and Tsingshan Institute for Advanced Business Studies, Zhejiang University， a former Professor of Economics at Boston University （09/2003--04/2025). Currently he is Dean of the School of Economics and Dean of the Academy of Financial Research, Zhejiang University. He is a Fellow of SAET, a senior Fellow of ABFER, an associate editor of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, and Journal of Monetary Economimcs, and a former associate editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics， Quantitative Economics， and Journal of Mathematical Economics. He is the founder of the China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM) and the China Forum of Macroeconomic Research, a founder of China Macroeconomic Research Alliance and .
Professor Miao received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992, his MA in economics from Zhongshan University in 1995, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2003.
Professor Miao’s research fields are macroeconomics and finance and their interface with decision theory, information economics, public finance, and industrial organization. His main research areas are the macroeconomic implications of bubbles and crashes, theory and applications of decision making under uncertainty, rational inattention, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policies, dynamic contracts, asset pricing, and corporate finance.
Professor Miao has published over 60 papers in major international journals, 6 of which are in top 5 economics journals American Economic Review and Econometrica, 2 are in top science journals PNAS joint with Nobel Prize Winner Lars Hansen, 5 are in top 3 finance journals Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, 17 are in top economics journals such as American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, , Journal of Monetary Economics, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics. He published three books and won a best paper prize in 2009 CICF.
According to the recent rankings by Ideas/RePec, Professor Miao is in the top 1% list among all world economists and is ranked 21th in Asia and 6th in China. He is in the world's Top 2% Scientists list in 2020, 2023 and 2024 accordfing to the data verified and sourced from ELSEVIER and Stanford University.
·IDEAs/REPEC Rankings of Economists Affiliated with Institutions in China
·School of Economics of Zhejiang University
