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Assistant Professor
Yuchen Xu
Ph.D. in Finance, The University of Hong Kong
Research Interests: Financial History, Empirical Corporate Finance
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0755-2603 3007
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xuyuchen@phbs.pku.edu.cn
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Office: Rm. 703, PHBS Building
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Biography
Research Interest
Financial History, Empirical Corporate Finance

Education
Ph.D. in Finance, The University of Hong Kong, 2020
M.A. in Economics and Psychology, University Paris Sorbonne & Descartes, Paris I & V (cooperative program) Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2015
M.A. in Financial Engineering, University Paris Dauphine, Paris IX Sep. 2012 – Jun. 2014
B.A. in Applied Economics, University Paris Dauphine, Paris IX Sep. 2011 – Jun. 2012

Publications
Lin, C., Ma, C., Sun, Y., & Xu, Y. (2021). The telegraph and modern banking development, 1881–1936. Journal of Financial Economics, 141(2), 730-749.
 
Levine, R., Lin, C., Ma, C., & Xu, Y. (2021). The Legal Origins of Financial Development: Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions (No. w28794). National Bureau of Economic Research.
 
Lin, C., Ma, C., Sun, Y., & Xu, Y. (2021). The Allocation of Talent and Financial Development, 1897 to 1936. Available at SSRN 3861129.
 
Gao, X., Lin, C., Pursiainen, V., & Xu, Y. (2021). Partisan Depositor Responses to a Currency Shock. Available at SSRN 3820498.