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LIANG (LEON) DING

Department of Economics
1600 Grand Avenue
Macalester College
St.Paul, MN 55105
Phone: 651-696-6822
Fax: 651-696- 6746
Email: ding@macalester.edu
Website: www.macalester.edu/~ding

CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Macalester College, 2006-present.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 08/2006
B.A. in Finance, Nanjing University, P.R.China, with Honors, 07/1999

RESEARCH AREAS
Financial Economics; International Finance and Financial Markets

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

Thursday Effect of the Forward Premium Puzzle, International Review of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.

Asymmetric Correlations in Equity Returns: A Fundamental-based Explanation, with Hiro Miyaki (09') and Hao Zou (10'), Applied Financial EconomicsMarch 2011, pages 389 - 399..

•The Electronic Trading Systems and Bid-ask Spreads in the Foreign Exchange Market, with Jonas Hiltrop (08'), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & MoneyOctober 2010, 323-345.

• The Forward Premium Puzzle across Maturities, with Linh To (07') , Economics Bulletin, 2010, Vol. 30 no.2 pp. 1113-1119.

• “Bid-ask Spread and Order Size in the Foreign Exchange Market: An Empirical Investigation”, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009, Volume 14, Issue 1, 98-105.

• “Market Structure and Dealer’s Quoting Behavior in the Foreign Exchange Market”,
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2008, Volume 18, issue 4, pp. 313-325.

• "Can funamental risks explain currency risk premium?", Uder review

• Semi-Transparency, Dealership Market and Foreign Exchange Market Quality (with Hao Zou and Vittorio Addona)

• Portfolio Reallocation and Exchange Rate Dynamics (with Jun Ma)

• ”Recommendation effects in the stock market of China”
Management World, 2001 September issue
• “An Empirical Research on the Exchange Rate Bubbles in Southeast Asian Countries”
World Economy Study, 1999, November issue


PRESENTATIONS
•2007 Western Economics Association Conference, Seattle, WA, “Term Structure of Forward Premium Puzzle”,July 2007
•2007 Midwest Economics Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, “Term Structure of Forward Premium Puzzle” March 2007
• 2007 Southwest Economics Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, “Arbitrage Cost and Forward Premium Puzzle” March 2007
• 13th Conference on Pacific Basin Finance Economics and Accounting, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University June, 2005
• 3rd U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium, National Committee of U.S.-China Relations and George Washington University June, 2005
• 5th Hawaii International Conference on Business, West-East Center, University of Hawaii May, 2005
• Money and Macro seminars, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill October, 2004
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Capital markets; Principles of Economics, Macalester College 2007 spring
• Finance; Principles of Economics, Macalester College 2006 fall
• Intermediate Macroeconomics, UNC-CH 2005 spring, 2004 fall
• Economic Statistics, UNC-CH 2003 summer, spring
• Principles of Economics, UNC-CH 2002 fall

AWARDS AND HONORS
• The Best Graduate Student Instructor Award UNC-CH 2006
• Tuition Scholarship UNC-CH 2002-2006
• UNC Graduate School Travel Award UNC-CH 2005
• Scholar for Tomorrow Fellowship UNC-CH 2001-2002
• Sasakawa Scholarship Nanjing University 2000
• Honor Graduate of Nanjing University Nanjing University 1999
• Scholarship of Metrobank Foundation Nanjing University 1998
• Guanghua Scholarship Nanjing University 1997

MEMBERSHIPS
AEA, FMA, Omega Delta Epsilon


(Updated March 2010)

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