Schedule a Meeting:   

For Ph.D. students (and M.A RA/Undergraduate Honors Thesis student) I advise - if you would like to make an appointment, please schedule at here.  All meeting slots are first-come-first-served.  To make our meeting productive, please prepare a 2-3 pages of write-up specifying the questions you would like to discuss about. 

For my Ph.D. advisees who are 4th year and above, additional meetings can be arranged via email daniel.xu@duke.edu.

For ALL others, please email me at daniel.xu@duke.edu before you schedule an appointment online.

Graduate Research Assistant: 

My research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries.  Please contact by email. 

Current projects in progress include, but not limited to, the following 

(1) The role of firm-to-firm network in facilitating trade and innovation in developing countries 

(2) The interaction between government taxes/subsidies/regulations and firm/industry dynamics

(3) Information frictions in global E-commerce and entrepreneurial growth

(4) Trade policy shocks, firm response, and the evolving market structure. 

(5) Policy distortions and allocative efficiency

Countries of Particular Interests -- China, Colombia, Indonesia, Turkey, United States, Peru, Vietnam

Graduate Students I have advised at NYU and DUKE (Graduation/Placement, *primary/co-adviser)

NYU

• Yijia Wang (NERA, 2008)

• Niyati Ahuja (University of Scranton, 2009)

• Jun Wen (Cornerstone, 2011)

• Baiyu Dong* (Cheung Kong GSB, 2012)

• Mandy Mantian Hu (Marketing, Chinese U of HK, 2012)

• Sue Ryung Chang (Marketing, University of Georgia, 2012)

DUKE (PhD. Students, First Job)

• Kristoph Kleiner (Finance, Indiana Kelley School of Business, 2014) 

• Wei Wei (Finance, U of Calgary, 2014) 

• Sophia Ying Li (Cornerstone, 2015) 

• Joe Mazur (Purdue U, 2015) 

• Yiting Deng (Marketing, Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, 2015) 

• Pamela Medina* (Toronto Rotman School of Business, 2016) 

• Yang Yu (Shanghai U of Finance and Economics, 2016) 

• Yifang Guo* (San Diego Gas and Electric, 2016) 

• Tedi Skiti* (Strategy, Temple Fox School of Business, 2017) 

• Olga Kozlova (Analysis Group, 2017) 

• Su Zhang* (Analysis Group, 2018) 

• Andrew Steck (Toronto Rotman School of Business, 2018)

• Sherry Wu (Visiting AP, Indiana Kelley School of Business, 2018)

• Jose Martinez (Inter-American Development Bank, 2018)

• Yilin Jiang (Mckinsey Consulting, 2019)

• Kate Maxwell (Cornerstone, 2019)

• Yanyou Chen* (Toronto, 2020)

• Chuhang Yin* (Bates White Consulting, 2020)

• Rudolf Harri-Oberg* (Marketing, Deakin University, 2020)

• Andrey Ordin (Finance, UT Austin McCombs School of Business, 2020)

• Tiancheng Chen* (Amazon, 2021)

• Taehoon Kim* (Korean Institute of Industrial Economics and Trade, 2021)

• Jay Im* (Finance, Federal Reserve Board, 2021)

• Elessar Chen* (BNY Mellon , 2021)

• Jonathan Moreno (UT San Antonio, 2021)

• Gabor Palinko (Cornerstone, 2021)

• Xirui Zhang* (Amazon, 2022)

• Yuxuan He (Amazon, 2022)

• Xian Jiang* (UC Davis, 2022)

• Jeremy Lebow (Worldbank, 2022)

• Damien Kim (Korean Development Institute, 2023)

• Kelly Yang* (Indiana Kelley School of Business, 2023)

• Sung-Ju Wu* (Academia Sinica, 2024)

• Seohee Kim* (Finance, Indiana Kelley School of Business, 2024)

• Jin Liu* (University of Pennsylvania, 2024, advised @ NYU)

• Alison Pei* (Charles Rivers Associates, 2024)

• Boya Xu (Marketing, Virginia Tech Pamplin Business School, 2024)

• Zhenxuan Wang (North Carolina State University, 2024)

• Weiting Miao* (Ongoing)

• Tulio Salvio Sousa (Ongoing)

• John Shin (Ongoing)

• David Shin (Ongoing)

• Muhammet Nurullah Gulec (Ongoing)

• Boyang Bai* (Ongoing)

• Baron Tsai* (Ongoing)

• Arthur Carvalho Brito* (Ongoing)

• Bomi Kang* (Ongoing)

• Xuan Lin* (Ongoing)

• Cem Ozdemir* (Ongoing)

• Xuyang Xia (Ongoing) 

• Joyce Ma (Strategy, Ongoing)

DUKE (MA. Students Advised, PhD Program Placements)

• Chuhang Ying (Duke)

• Han Gao (Minnesota)

• Xian Jiang (Duke)

• Shuxian Chen (U of Washington)

• Shuang Wang (Boston University)

• Yuxuan He (Duke)

• Seung Hyun Kim (UCSD)

• Jin Liu (NYU)

• Haoran Zhang (UNC Chapel Hill)

• Weiting Miao (Duke)

• Chengdai Huang (University of Chicago, full-time RA, now NYU)

•  Liying Qiu (Carnegie Mellon, Marketing)

• Xuan Lin (Duke)

• Mingyang Wei (Boston College)

• Shuhan Zou (Princeton)

• Jiaqi Huang (Penn State)

• Shijian Liu (NYU Stern, Marketing)

• Yue Zhang (UNC Chapel Hill)