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Xuehui Han (韩雪辉) is an Economist in the International Monetary Fund. She was with AIIB after ADB both as an Economist. Before ADB, she was on the faculty of Fudan University's School of Management in the People's Republic of China. She holds a Ph.D in economics from University of Oslo and a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Fudan University in China. She has considerable research expertise in international macroeconomics, finance, economic growth, and real estate economics, with extensive experience in econometric modelling (machine-learning methods such as regression tree approach, stochastic forecasting in time series, GMM in panel data, and random utility theory in discrete choice, such as generalized logit model).

Curriculum Vitae

Xuehui Han CV July 2023.pdf

Visiting positions

International Faculty Fellow, MIT Sloan, Aug. – Dec. 2009
Visiting Doctoral Student, Copenhagen Business School, Sep. 2004
Visiting Student Researcher, University of California at Berkeley, Sep. 2003 – May 2004

Journal Articles

Drivers of Bilateral Climate Finance Aid: The Roles of Paris Agreement Commitments, Public Governance, and Multilateral Institutions (with Yuan Cheng), Environmental and Resource Economics, 1-39 2023. Datasets and codes in R on Github

A Cross-Sectional Exploration of Labor Supply, Gender, and Household Wealth (with Y. Cheng, J. K. Dagsvik, and Tao Zhang) Journal of Choice Modelling 100433, 2023

Assessing the economic loss due to natural disasters from outer space (with Yuan Cheng), Climate Services 26 100286 2022. Datasets and codes in R on Github

Impact of infrastructure investment on developed and developing economies (with J Su and JP Thia), Economic Change and Restructuring 54: 995-1024 2021.

“Subsidies” or “taxes”? Corporate credit misallocation induced by the nexus of state-owned enterprises and state-owned banks (with MCF Epetia and Yuan Cheng), Journal of Asian Economics 76, 101346 2021.

Disability and Job Constraints in Post Civil War Cambodia (with John K. Dagsvik and Yuan Cheng), The Journal of Development Studies 56 2293-2307 2020.

Consumption-and productivity-adjusted dependency ratio with household structure heterogeneity in China (with Yuan Cheng), The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 17, 100276 2020.

Does the" missing" high-income matter?-Income distribution and inequality revisited with truncated distribution (with Yuan Cheng), China Economic Review 57: 101337 2019.

Assessing the impact of the “one-child policy” in China: A synthetic control approach (with Stuart Gietel-Basten and Yuan Cheng), PLoS ONE 14 (11): e0220170, 2019.

International Transmissions of Monetary Shocks: Between a Trilemma and a Dilemma (with Shang-Jin Wei), Journal of International Economics 110: 205-219, 2018. Datasets and program codes in R

Deriving Macroeconomic Benefits from Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Asia (with Minsoo Lee, Raymond Gaspar, and Emmanuel Alano), Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development 3: 1-21, 2019.

Revisiting the FDI impact on GDP growth in errors-in-variables models: a panel data GMM analysis allowing for error memory (with Erik Biorn), Empirical Economics 53: 1379–1398, 2017.

Re-examining the Middle-Income Trap Hypothesis (MITH):What to Reject and What to Revive? (with Shang-Jin Wei), Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 73, Part A, pages 41-61, 2017.

Policy Choices and Resilience to International Monetary Shocks, (with Shang-Jin Wei), Global Economic Review, Volume: 43, Issue: 04, pages 319 – 337, 2014.

The Evolution of the Housing Market and Its Socio-economic Impacts in Post-Reform People’s Republic of China: A Survey of the Literature (with Jie Chen), Journal of Economic Surveys, 28:652-670, 2014.

Real Estate Market Policy and Household Demand for Housing (with John K. Dagsvik and Yuan Cheng), Pacific Economic Review, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 237-253, 2014.

Does large volatility help?—stochastic population forecasting technology in explaining real estate price process (with Yuan Cheng), Journal of Population Economics, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 323-356, 2013.

Marriage Pattern in the City of Shanghai: Behavioral Two-Sex Marriage Model and Multistage Marriage Life Table Approach (with Yuan Cheng and John K. Dagsvik), Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Volume 43, Issue 4, 2011.

Housing Demand in Shanghai: a Discrete Choice Approach, China Economic Review, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2010

Blogs, Media Quotes, and Presentations

Skills

- Advanced in R and Proficient in Gauss
- CFA level I exams passed
- Certificate of the course on IMF Financial Programming
- Certificate of the training program on Art & Craft of Discussion Leadership at Business School in Harvard

Workshop Photos

ASSA 2019/2018 Annual Conference in Atalanta/Philadelphia

NIPFP Workshop in India, Dec 2015

ADB-HKU Workshop on FDI, June 2016

The beautiful shell was generated in R by:

https://github.com/marcusvolz/mathart

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Working Papers

Fiscal Anatomy of Two Crises and an Interlude (with P. Mauro and J. Ralyea) IMF Working Paper 2023/117

India’s State-Owned Enterprises (with Elif Arbatli Saxegaard, Ruchir Agarwal, and Lesley Fisher), IMF Working Paper 22/165 2022.

Fiscal rules and fiscal councils: Recent trends and performance during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Hamid R Davoodi, Paul Elger, Alexandra Fotiou, Daniel Garcia-Macia, Andresa Lagerborg, W Raphael Lam, and Paulo A Medas), IMF Working Paper 22/11 2022.

Do Governance Indicators Explain Development Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis, ADB Economics Working Paper Series 417, Asian Development Bank. 2014 (with Khan, Haider and Juzhong Zhuang)

Panel Data Dynamics and Measurement Errors: GMM Bias, IV Validity and Model Fit – A Monte Carlo Study, Memorandum 27/2012, Oslo University, Department of Economics. (with Erik Biorn) presented on 19th International Panel Data Conference 2013.

Are the “Best” Companies Good? Signaling Earnings Management from the Predictability of Cash Flow

In Progress

Debt and Fiscal Risks: Managing Shocks and Surprises (with J. Ralyea and P. A. Medas) for ADBI Book on Effective Public Debt Management and Fiscal Sustainability in The Post-COVID-19 Era.

Is Fiscal Profligacy Responsible for Sovereign Debt Default? (with R. A. Espinoza, under review).

Real Estate Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy: The Channel between Central Bank’s Balance Sheet and Firms’ Balance Sheets (with Yuan Cheng and Ma. Christina Epetia) presented in ASSA 2019 annual conference in Atlanta

Rate the Unrated Economies - Machine Learning the Rating Agencies

Decipher the Nexus of Economic Benefit and Debt associated with Infrastructures Investment through the Lens of Nighttime Lights

Accommodating Behavior Stableness-A Modification of Generalized Multinomial Logit Modeling (with John K. Dagsvik and Yuan Cheng)

Characterization and Estimation of Stochastic Choice Models for Matching Behavior (With John K. Dagsvik and Yuan Cheng)

Book Chapters

Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years, Asian Development Bank, 2020.

The Empirical Evidence and Channels for Effective Public-Private Partnerships (with M. Lee, R. Gaspar, and E. Alano) ) In: B. Susantono, D. Park, and S. Tian (Eds) Infrastructure Financing in Asia, Asian Development Bank, World Scientific, 2019.

Assessing Risk in Public-Private Partnerships (with M. Lee, P. F. Quising, and M. L. Villaruel) In: A. Deep, J. Kim, and M. Lee (Eds) Realizing the Potential of Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Asia’s Infrastructure Development, Asian Development Bank, Korea Development Institute, 2019.

Do Governance Indicators Explain Development Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis," (with Khan, Haider and Juzhong Zhuang) In: A. B. Deolalikar, S. Jha, and P.F. Quising (Eds). Governance in Developing Asia: Public Service Delivery and Empowerment, Edward Elgar, 2015

The Evolution of the Housing Market and Its Socio-economic Impacts in Post-Reform People’s Republic of China: A Survey of the Literature (with Jie Chen) In: I. Claus and L. Oxley (Eds). China's Economy: A Collection of Surveys, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

The Impact of Air Pollution on Mortality in Shanghai (with Z. Zhao, X. Peng, Y. Cheng, F. Zhou, G. Song.) In: L. Song, R. Garnaut and W. Woo (Eds). China’s dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment, and Climate Change, Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Reviews of the Population Situation in East Asia (with X. Peng) In: C. Fu, J. Freney and J. Steward (Eds). Changes in the Human-Monsoon System of East Asia in the Context of Global Change, SCOPE Series, Island Press, Washington DC, 2008.

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