# Yinan Su

> Yinan Su is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing, the relationship between risk and return, financial econometrics, machine learning, and AI.

Canonical website: https://www.suyinan.com/

## Canonical profile

- Position: Associate Professor of Finance
- Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School
- Research areas: empirical asset pricing; risk and return; financial econometrics; financial machine learning; artificial intelligence in finance
- Education: PhD in Financial Economics, University of Chicago Booth-Economics Joint Program; bachelor's degree with honors, Tsinghua University
- Email: ys@jhu.edu
- Machine-readable profile: https://www.suyinan.com/profile.json
- Johns Hopkins Carey faculty profile: https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/yinan-su-phd

## Primary sources

- Homepage and research: https://www.suyinan.com/
- Curriculum vitae: https://www.suyinan.com/Yinan_Su_CV.pdf
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=btI0f-QAAAAJ&hl=en
- SSRN author page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2678946
- NBER researcher page: https://www.nber.org/people/yinan_su?page=1&perPage=50
- Johns Hopkins Carey faculty profile: https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/yinan-su-phd
- Research section: https://www.suyinan.com/#research
- Conference discussions: https://www.suyinan.com/#discussions
- Teaching: https://www.suyinan.com/#teaching

## Publications

- Conditional Spectral Methods, with Federico Bandi. Journal of Econometrics, 2025. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4284240
- Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text, with Leland Bybee and Bryan Kelly. Review of Financial Studies, 2023. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3895277
- Characteristics Are Covariances: A Unified Model of Risk and Return, with Bryan Kelly and Seth Pruitt. Journal of Financial Economics, 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3032013

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