Bo Sun

About

Bo Sun is an associate professor of business administration in the global economies and markets area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and holds a courtesy appointment at the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. Her research examines how information and uncertainty influence economic decisions and explores how policy interventions can address their effects.

Sun's work has been published in academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Journal of International Economics. Her research has received coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Booth Review, Deutsche Bank Research, Barclay Insider Report, Two Sigma Investments, Cato Institute, QuantPedia, and ValueWalk, as well as at the Hoover Institution, Brookings, and the American Enterprise Institute. In addition, she has published in policy outlets, including the FEDS Notes of the Board of Governors and Liberty Street Economics of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Before joining UVA Darden, Sun was a principal economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where she spent ten years working on a range of policy issues. She was on the faculty at Peking University Guanghua School of Management and was a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. She is currently an affiliated faculty at Carnegie Mellon Tepper AI Lab and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and is a fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. Sun holds a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia and a BA in economics from Peking University.