Overview
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.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Economics
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2017 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Co-Director of Admissions for PhD Program of Economics
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2021 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
O-Ring Production Networks
Journal Article Journal of Political Economy · January 1, 2024 We document strong skill matching in Turkish firms’ production networks. Additionally, in the data, export demand shocks from rich countries increase firms’ skill intensity and their trade with skill-intensive domestic partners. We explain these patterns u ... Full text CiteHow Costly Are Markups?
Journal Article Journal of Political Economy · July 1, 2023 We study the welfare costs of markups in a dynamic model with hetero- geneous firms and endogenous markups. We provide aggregation re- sults summarizing the macro implications of micro-level markup het- erogeneity. We calibrate our model to US Census of Ma ... Full text CiteTax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behaviour: Evidence from China’s VAT Reform
Journal Article Review of Economic Studies · March 1, 2023 We incorporate the lumpy nature of firm-level investment into the study of how tax policy affects investment behaviour. We show that tax policies can directly impact the lumpiness of investment. Extensive-margin responses to tax policy are key to understan ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Excellence in Research: The impact of online comparison websites on the remittance industry
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Spelman College · 2018 - 2021Fiscal Incentives and Firm Growth
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018Collaborative Research: International Buyer-Seller Matches
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2017View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Pennsylvania State University ·
2007
Ph.D.