Research Interests for Daniel Yi Xu

Research Interests:

Professor Xu’s research focuses on Productivity, International Trade, and Industrial Organization. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries, and the NET Institute. His most recent work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, the World Bank Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Dynamics. He is currently working on projects that explore innovation, productivity, exporting and industry dynamics, with a special focus on East Asian emerging economies such as China, Taiwan, and Korea.

Recent Publications
  1. Edmond, C; Midrigan, V; Xu, DY, How Costly Are Markups?, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 131 no. 7 (July, 2023), pp. 1619-1675, University of Chicago Press [doi] [abs]
  2. Chen, Z; Jiang, X; Liu, Z; Suárez Serrato, JC; Xu, DY, Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behaviour: Evidence from China’s VAT Reform, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 90 no. 2 (March, 2023), pp. 634-674, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi] [abs]
  3. Demir, B; Fieler, AC; Yi Xu, D; Yang, KK, O-Ring Production Networks (February, 2021)
  4. Chen, Z; He, Y; Liu, Z; Xu, DY; Serrato, JCS, The structure of business taxation in China, vol. 35 no. 1 (January, 2021), pp. 131-177 [doi] [abs]
  5. Hu, MM; Yang, S; Xu, DY, Understanding the social learning effect in contagious switching behavior, Management Science, vol. 65 no. 10 (October, 2019), pp. 4771-4794, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) [doi] [abs]