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Cameron Peng is Assistant Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has been based since 2018. His research lies at the intersection of asset pricing, behavioral finance, and household finance, exploring how psychological biases shape the beliefs, decisions, and portfolio choices of individual investors. His work has been published in leading economics and finance journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, and has been recognized with multiple best paper awards including the CFRC Behavioral Finance Best Paper Award (2023) and CFRC Best Paper Award (2021).
He serves as Programme Director for Capital Markets at the Financial Markets Group (FMG) and is a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is also a co-organizer of the Behavioral Finance Group and the Cognitive Foundations of Finance Conference. He has been recognized with the LSE Excellence in Education Award in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from Yale University (2018), where he was advised by Nicholas Barberis, and a BA in Finance from Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management (2012).
Research interests
- Asset pricing
- Behavioural economics
- Behavioral finance
- Household finance