Dr. Songnian CHEN is the first Tsingshan Chair Professor at Tsingshan Insititute for Advanced Business Studies (TIABS) of ZJU. He is also Professor of Economics, College of Economics at ZJU. In 2022, he is elected as the Fellow of the Econometric Society. Before joining ZJU, he was a provost’s chair professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore and a chair professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He has published over 40 papers in leading journals such as  Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Prof. Chen is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (JOE) and served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Econometrics from 2002 to 2021.

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