Junjie XIA
I am an assistant professor at the Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE) of Peking University. My research interest mainly lies in macroeconomics, finance and trade. Most of my research topics are closely related to China.
Contact Information:
Institute of New Structural Economics
Peking University
5th Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871
Email: junjiexia [at] nsd.pku.edu.cn
Current Research Papers (Draft Available Upon Request)
Select Work In Progress
Publications
Teaching
Education
Contact Information:
Institute of New Structural Economics
Peking University
5th Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871
Email: junjiexia [at] nsd.pku.edu.cn
Current Research Papers (Draft Available Upon Request)
- “Trade-induced Urbanization and the Making of Modern Agriculture” [Paper] (with Yuan Tian and Rudai Yang)
- “Dynamics of Trade Credit in China” (with Wukuang Cun, Vincenzo Quadrini and Qi Sun)
- “Firm-level Dynamics and Trade Elasticity” (with Lukasz Drozd and Rahul Giri)
- “Trade Credit, Bank Credit, and Amplification Effect: Evidence and Theory from China” (with Qi Sun)
- “Trade Credit and Self-fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms"
- “Cash Holdings, Capital Structure and Financial Risk" (with Qi Sun)
- “Exporting Destination, Skill Utilization and Skill Premium in Chinese Manufacturing Sector” (with Bilal Khan)
- “Industrial Policy and Asset Prices: Stock Market Reactions to Made in China 2025 Policy Announcements” (with Xia Summer Liu and William Megginson)
- “Political Uncertainty and Managerial Preferences: Evidence form a Natural Experiment in China” (with Kedi Wang)
Select Work In Progress
- “The Rise of Smart Robots: Is Modern Automation Labor Income Displacing? ” (with Hong Cheng, Lukasz Drozd, Rahul Giri and Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel)
- “Getting Rich in China: An Empirical and Structural Investigation of Wealth Mobility” (with Vincenzo Quadrini, Qi Sun and Ting Zeng)
- "How Institutes Shape Productivity: The Role of Chinese State-owned Enterprises" (with Emily Nix and Miao Ben Zhang)
- “Evaluating the Performance of Chinese State-owned Enterprises” (with Justin Yifu Lin and Haochen Zhang)
- “In the Network: Gift-Exchanges and Migration” (with Yuan Tian)
Publications
- “To Upgrade or To Relocate? Explaining Heterogeneous Responses of Chinese Light Manufacturing Firms to Rising Labor Costs” (with Fei Wang and Jiajun Xu), China Economic Review, Special Issue on New Structural Economics, 2019
- “Explaining Reform and Special Economic Zones in China” (with Justin Yifu Lin and Jiajun Xu), Chapter 28, The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development, Oxford University Press, 2019
Teaching
- Macroeconomic Theory, National School of Development (NSD) at Peking, Fall 2017
- Intermediate Macroeconomics, NSD at Peking, Spring 2018; Fall 2018; Spring 2019; Spring 2020
- Advanced Topics in Macro-Finance, NSD at Peking, Spring 2020
Education
- Ph.D. Economics, University of Southern California, 2017
