Professor Yuan has been with the London School of Economics since 2008. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before obtaining her Ph.D., she briefly worked at the Emerging Markets Trading Desk at J.P. Morgan (now JPMorgan Chase). After completing her Ph.D., she served as an assistant professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Her academic research focuses on developing macro-finance and asset pricing theories with liquidity implications in environments characterized by information and market frictions, and testing their empirical implications. In recent years, she has explored how crises spread through international financial markets and how introducing benchmark securities, such as treasury bonds or stock indices, can improve overall market liquidity. Currently, she is investigating issues related to liquidity and financial stability in both bank and non-bank financial institutions, including DeFi, the macro implications of digital payment technologies, and developing applied theories of (digital) money and public liquidity.
Professor Yuan is a member of FMG and CEPR, and has received the Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England. She has also been awarded research fellowships at BIS and IMF, and has conducted policy research for central banks and financial market regulators.