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9 new researchers join MIT Sloan faculty
The new faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2022 are experts in finance, system dynamics, technological innovation, and more.
Jul 6, 2022
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Tong Liu
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Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Tong’s research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, and healthcare finance. His recent work uses a broad set of empirical methods and structural techniques to explore questions related to the welfare impacts of private equity buyouts and venture capital investments, market frictions that affect startup innovation, and measures of corporate investment opportunities.
He received his PhD in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, he received an MA in economics from Peking University and a BA in mathematical economics and finance from Central University of Finance and Economics.
Publications
"Learning by Investing: Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital."
Lerner, Josh, Jinlin Li, Tong Liu, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6906-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2023.
"Common Ownership and Innovation Efficiency."
Li, Xuelin, Tong Liu, and Lucian A. Taylor. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 147, No. 3 (2023): 475-497.
"Excess Commitment in R&D."
Liu, Tong and Marius Guenzel, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6907-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2022.
"Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare."
Liu, Tong, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6736-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2021.
"An Invisible Oncologist: Health Implications of Financing Frictions."
Kopytov, Alexandr, Tong Liu, and Haotian Xiang, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6739-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2021.
"Financing Experimentation."
Liu, Tong, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6737-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2021.
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