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Jin Xu (徐瑾) is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. She earned her Ph.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, in 2007 and 2006, respectively.

Her research interests are in empirical corporate finance and corporate governance and, in particular, capital structure, executive compensation, board of directors, and institutional investors. Her research has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research. Two of her papers won the William F. Sharpe Best Paper award in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis in 2015 and 2018, respectively.