Ying Ma

Ying Ma is a PhD student in Economics and Finance at Charles University, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), supervised by Prof. Jozef Baruník. Her research lies at the intersection of behavioral finance, asset pricing, and computational methods. She is particularly interested in applying machine learning, reinforcement learning, and econometric approaches to understand investor behavior, belief formation, and financial market dynamics.

Her current research projects investigate how investors’ beliefs, expectations, sentiment, and memory processes shape asset prices and decision-making under uncertainty. By combining economic theory with advanced computational methods and large-scale financial data, she studies how cognitive and informational mechanisms influence financial markets. Her research has been published in the Journal of International Money and Finance and presented at international academic conferences, including the FMA Annual Meeting and FMA Asia/Pacific Conference.