Luke Deer, PhD

Sydney Area, Australia Australia

Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney

Education

Luke researches alternative finance in China and the Asia Pacific--with a focus on peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, and on financial innovation and central banking in China. Luke is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sydney and a Research Associate with the University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and with the Cambridge Judge Business School. Luke’s post-doctoral research is funded by a 2015 grant from the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) for a project with Mike Beggs, Chris Jefferis and Yu Yuxin. This project aims to develop a ‘Money View’ analysis of the dynamics between financial innovation and central banking in the recent evolution of Chi