Hi! I am Grace, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at George Washington University (Ph.D. expected May 2027), specializing in International Macroeconomics, Financial Stability, and AI/ML in Economics. I am on the 2026–2027 economics job market.

My research builds large-scale, AI- and text-based datasets to study capital flows, capital controls, crypto assets, and financial-stability risks. My job market paper, Crypto Shadow Banking: Stablecoins, Crypto Assets and Capital Controls, constructs an LLM-based crypto-exposure dataset from 4,696 U.S. corporate filings to show how firms use digital assets to bypass capital controls. My work has appeared as an NBER working paper.

I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Tomas Williams at The George Washington University. Previously, I was mentored by Prof. Guixia Guo during my Master’s Degree at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).

You can find my CV here: Grace Sun’s Curriculum Vitae.

Research Interests

• International Macroeconomics and Finance
  • Capital Flow and Capital Intervention
  • Carry Trades and Liquidity Risks
  • crypto assets and capital flow
• AI in Economics
  • Multi-type Datasets by LLM Prompting/Finetuning
  • AI Impact on Financial Market

Contact

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