Zhimin Chen

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Nanyang Business School and a Faculty Affiliate at the Global Institute of Finance, Technology, and Society (GIFTS), Nanyang Technological University. I'm also a member of the Digital Economy and Financial Technology Research Lab (DEFT).

I received my Ph.D. in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and the University of Lausanne in 2024. I was a visiting scholar at the Wharton Finance Department, University of Pennsylvania. I obtained my MSc degree from Imperial College London as a Chevening Scholar.

My research interests include AI in Finance, Carbon Markets, and Biodiversity Finance.

Email: zhimin.chen at ntu.edu.sg

Address: 91 Nanyang Avenue, Wee Cho Yaw Plaza, ABS-06-108, Singapore 639956

Selected Research Papers

Real Effects of Carbon Financialization

Yihong Xia Best Paper Award at the China International Conference in Finance (CICF) 2024
Runner-up prize at the 4th Annual FIASI-Gabelli School Student Research Competition on ESG
Best Paper Award at the 9th China Derivatives Youth Forum
Prix 2024 de la Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

Limits To (Machine) Learning (with Bryan Kelly and Semyon Malamud)

Environmental-Unfriendly Tax Avoidance (with Martin Jacob and Xiang Zheng)

Private Equity and Biodiversity Offset Markets (with Keyu Zang)

Estimating Synergy Effects of Multiple Treatments in Staggered Adoption Designs

(with Rui Dai, Sadat Reza, and Peiwen Xie)

Assessing Ecological Integrity of Avoided Deforestation Projects

(with Kelly Ong, Tao Chen, Carlos T. Pérez-Brito, and Yiwen Zeng) accepted at Nature Climate Change

Global Flows of Forest-based Carbon Projects

(with Brooke Williams, Zoe Lieb, Yiwen Zeng, Tao Chen, Matthew Luskin, and Jonathan Rhodes)

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