Prof. Can Gao
SFI Faculty Member, Assistant Professor, Université de Saint-Gall
Can Gao is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of St.Gallen. Before joining UNISG in 2023, he was Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and worked in the financial industry in London. He holds visiting fellowships at Collegio Carlo Alberto, CEMFI and BIS in 2025.
Expertise
Professor Gao focuses on asset pricing, international finance, and macro-finance. In his recent working paper with his co-authors, they introduce a new measure of a government's fiscal position that exploits cointegrating relationships among fiscal variables.
Expertise Fields
- Financial Markets
- Central Banks and Monetary Policy
- Financial Crises
- Financial Forecasting
- Information and Market Efficiency
- International Financial Markets and Emerging Markets
- Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
- Asset Pricing
- Equities
- Fixed Income
- Foreign Exchange
- Options and Other Derivatives
- Frontier Topics
- Big Data and Fintech
- Operations Research and Decision Theory