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Xian Gu
Xian Gu
Xian joined Durham University Business School in June 2020 as an Associate Professor in Finance. Prior to this, she was an Associate/Assistant Professor in Finance at School of Finance of Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing (2015-20), Visiting Lecturer at Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania (2017-20). She received her Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University Business School in Financial Economics and Master in Law from University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania from 2013-15. She also served as an economist at the Research Department of CITIC Securities International from 2011-13.
Xian’s research interests are corporate finance, financial intermediation, FinTech, law and finance. She has published academic papers in Journal of International Economics, Annual Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. Her working papers have been presented at conferences including Western Finance Association (WFA) Annual Meetings, American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meetings, etc. Her papers have won the Best Paper Awards at AsianFA (2019); CFRC (2019); CICF (2021); CFRC (2021).
Xian Gu
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- VoxChina Covid-19 Forum (Second Edition): China’s Post-Lockdown Economic Recovery VoxChina, Apr 18, 2020
- China’s Great Housing Boom Kaiji Chen, Yi Wen, Oct 11, 2017
- China’s Joint Venture Policy and the International Transfer of Technology Kun Jiang, Wolfgang Keller, Larry D. Qiu, William Ridley, Feb 06, 2019
- Wealth Redistribution in the Chinese Stock Market: the Role of Bubbles and Crashes Li An, Jiangze Bian, Dong Lou, Donghui Shi, Jul 01, 2020
- The Dark Side of the Chinese Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Local Government Debt Yi Huang, Marco Pagano, Ugo Panizza, Jun 28, 2017
- What Is Special about China’s Housing Boom? Edward L. Glaeser, Wei Huang, Yueran Ma, Andrei Shleifer, Jun 20, 2017
- Privatization and Productivity in China Yuyu Chen, Mitsuru Igami, Masayuki Sawada, Mo Xiao, Jan 31, 2018
- How did China Move Up the Global Value Chains? Hiau Looi Kee, Heiwai Tang, Aug 30, 2017
- Evaluating Risk across Chinese Housing Markets Yongheng Deng, Joseph Gyourko, Jing Wu, Aug 02, 2017
- China’s Shadow Banking Sector: Wealth Management Products and Issuing Banks Viral V. Acharya, Jun Qian, Zhishu Yang, Aug 09, 2017
