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 (with Andrea Rebucci, Fabio Natalucci, and coauthors), is under review at The Journal of Finance and Data Science, and has been presented at the Southern Economic Association and China Economics Society annual meetings.
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).
In summer 2025, I was an Economist Intern at the Andersen Institute of Finance and Economics in Washington, D.C., where I built LLM-based research pipelines for stablecoin analysis and coauthored policy notes and papers, including an NBER working paper.
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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