Lin Tong

Lin Tong is an associate professor of finance. She received her Ph.D. in finance from Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. She also holds an M.S. in mathematics from Iowa State University and a B.A. in mathematics from Nanjing University, China.

Professor Tong's research interests include institutional investors, high-frequency trading, mutual funds, and behavioral finance. Her research has been presented at high-level gatherings in America and Europe, among them annual meetings of the American Finance Association, European Finance Association, and Financial Management Association; the NYU Stern Conference on Market Microstructure; and the SEC Annual Conference on the Regulation of Financial Markets. Professor Tong’s work has been mentioned in several media outlets, including The Economist and Barron’s.

• Ph.D., Finance, University of Iowa, 2014
• Master's: M.S., Mathematics, Iowa State University, 2009
• Batchelor's: B.A., Mathematics, Nanjing University (China), 2007

• High-frequency trading
• Mutual funds
• Behavioral finance
• Asset pricing

• Iftekhar Hasan, Lin Tong, and An Yan, Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run-up in takeovers, The Journal of Financial Research, 2024, 48(2), 645-672. 
• C. Wei Li, Ashish Tiwari, and Lin Tong, Mutual fund tournaments and fund Active Share, Journal of Financial Stability, 2022, 63, 1-15.
• Nusret Cakici, Sris Chatterjee, Yi Tang, and Lin Tong, Alternative Profitability Measures and Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns: International Evidence, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2021, 56, 369–391.
• Shangzhe Li, Xin Jiang, Junran Wu, Lin Tong, and Ke Xu, Detection of Mutual Exciting Structure in Stock Price Trend Dynamics, Entropy, 23 (11), 1-16.
• Ke Shen, Lin Tong, Tong Yao, Heterogeneous Turnover-Performance Relations, Journal of Banking & Finance, 2021, 124, 1-16.
• Jeffrey A Busse, Lin Tong, Qing Tong, and Zhe Zhang, Trading Regularity and Fund Performance, The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, 32(1), 374–422.
• Wei C. Li, Ashish Tiwari, and Lin Tong, Investment Decisions Under Ambiguity: Evidence from Mutual Fund Investor Behavior, Management Science, 2017, 63, 2397-2771.