We are delighted to welcome two outstanding young academics to the Faculty. Kim Fe Cramer and Linyan Zhu will join the LSE Department of Finance in Autumn 2022 as Assistant Professors.
Dr. Kim Fe Cramer recently obtained her PhD from Columbia Business School. Her work explores how the financial sector drives progress in developing countries. In her job-market paper, 'Bank Presence and Health', she uses a nationwide natural experiment in India to examine impacts, and highlights two novel aspects of banking: households gain access to health insurance, and health care providers gain access to credit. In a series of randomised control trials in Kenya, she examines whether health insurance should be subsidised.
https://www.kimfecramer.com/
Linyan Zhu will arrive at the School following a PhD in the Department of Economics at the University of California San Diego. Her work focuses on the intersection of monetary economics and financial economics, and her job-market paper, entitled ‘Let the Market Speak: Using Interest Rates to Identify the Fed Information Effect’ proposes a novel approach to disentangling a Fed information effect from an exogenous monetary shock using high-frequency interest rate changes around a monetary announcement.
She is looking forward to producing more interesting work on the linkages between financial markets and the macro economy alongside the amazing group of researchers at LSE Finance.
https://linyan-zhu.github.io/
The LSE Department of Finance Faculty has an outstanding track record of producing cutting-edge research, and we offer our newest Assistant Professors our full support and best wishes as they explore the frontiers of knowledge in their areas of expertise.