Weidong Lin is an Assistant Professor of Finance at NEOMA Business School. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Durham University Business School in 2023. His research interests lie in applied econometrics and empirical asset pricing, with a particular focus on macroeconomic forecasting. His work has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the International Journal of Forecasting. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the Annals of Operations Research, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Mathematical Finance.