Daniel Yi Xu, Professor and Co-Director of Admissions for PhD Program

Professor Yi (Daniel) Xu’s research focuses on Productivity, International Trade, and Industrial Organization. He has received numerous 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 Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Rand Journal of Economics, Management Science,  Review of Economic Dynamics, and the World Bank Economic Review. He is currently the co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and an associate editor of the Rand Journal of Economics and the American Economic Journal: Applied. He previously served as the co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He has been working on projects that explore innovation, productivity, exporting and industry dynamics, with a special focus on emerging economies such as China, Colombia, Taiwan, Korea, and Turkey.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	220 Social Sciences Bldg, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 1824
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://sites.google.com/site/yixusite/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• ECON 613.01, APPLIED ECONOMETRICS: MICRO Synopsis

  Social Sciences 136, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• ECON 824.01, INTERNATIONAL TRADE Synopsis

  Social Sciences 327, F 08:45 AM-11:15 AM

• ECON 825.01, INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Synopsis

  Social Sciences 105, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

2007

Specialties:

Economic Growth and Technological Change
International Economics and Finance
Industrial Organization

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.

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Recent Publications   (More 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]

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