Shuang Chen

Shuang Chen is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Finance at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics. She holds a Ph.D. from the Swiss Finance Institute and University of Lugano (2023). Her research focuses on institutional investors, labor and finance interactions, and sustainable finance. Key contributions include analyzing green transition efforts of firms and the impact of quantitative investing on market dynamics.

Her work bridges finance and environmental economics, notably examining how sustainable mutual funds prioritize 'talk' over 'walk' in green investments. She also explores quantitative investment strategies' market impacts and institutional trading behaviors on asset pricing anomalies.

Recent publications include studies on AI-driven asset management, bank sustainability commitments affecting SMEs, and ESG rating discrepancies. She received the Best Discussant Prize at the 2023 Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting. Teaching includes corporate finance courses with virtual delivery innovations.

Her research tools include text analysis for ESG job postings and BERT-based classification models to identify green practices. Active in academic discussions at conferences like FIRN and SFI research days, she also contributes Python automation tools for data collection tasks.