Lecturer in Economics and Operations Management within the Guildhall School of Business and Law.
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Yuen completed his PhD in Applied Economics and Digital Finance at UCL in 2023. He has an MRes in Management and Finance from SOAS, and a BSc Economics from the LSE.
Yuen has extensive industry experience: he worked as an Investment Manager at a FTSE 100 Pension Fund for over a decade, and as a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager for two and a half years.
Yuen is currently module leader for International Logistics. He is also teaching on Understanding and Managing Data, Creating a Winning Business, and Digital Business Management and Emerging Technology modules. He is course leader for BSc Economics and Finance.
Research interests include the economics of blockchain, cryptoassets and climate finance.
Joseph, D., Lo, Y. C., Pagani, A., Pan, L., and Skovorodov, V., (2022) “Ledger Comparative Analysis” In: Blockchain technology: advances in research and applications. Ed. by Porras, E. R., Nova Science Publishers
https://doi.org/10.52305/RTZT8988
Lo, Y. C. and Medda, F. (2021). “Do DEXs work? Using Uniswap V2 to explore the effectiveness of decentralized exchanges” Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures, p. 21-46
https://doi.org/10.21314/JFMI.2022.004
Lo, Y. C. and Medda, F. (2020). “Assets on the blockchain: An empirical study of Tokenomics” Information Economics and Policy, 53, p. 100881
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2020.100881
Lo, Y. C. and Medda, F. (2019). “Bitcoin mining: converting computing power into cash flow” Applied Economics Letters, 26.14, p. 1171-1176
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1540841
Buhr, B., Volz, U., Donovan, C., Kling, G., Lo, Y. C., Murinde, V., and Pullin, N., (2018) “Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Developing Countries”. London and Geneva: Imperial College London; SOAS University of London; UN Environment
https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/climate-change-and-cost-capital-developing-countries
Yuen is an advisor to a venture studio on financial strategy and blockchain. In addition to being a lecturer at London Metropolitan University, he is a Senior Fellow at SOAS and an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL.