I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Institute of Technology (SIT), a position I have held since 2023. I joined SIT as an Assistant Professor in 2021 after completing my PhD in Economics at Deakin University, Australia. My academic training also includes a Master’s degree in Economics from both the Australian National University (ANU) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), China. I was selected for the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program.

Selected Publications:

Xu,Xing, Emin Gahramanov, Qinglai Meng, Ching-Jen Sun, and Xueli Tang. "When Bargaining Power Matters: Foreign Direct Investment and Bilateral GDP Disparities" Empirical Economics. 2026

Xu, Xing. "The Impact of China's Retaliatory Tariffs on US Agricultural Exports during the 2018/2019 US-China Trade War." Agricultural Economics (2025):1-20

Xu,Xing, Liangcan Mao, and Ming Zhang."Geopolitical Decoupling and Strategic Export Reallocation: Evidence from China’s ‘Made in China 2025’ Sectors during the 2018–2019 U.S.–China Trade War ." Open Economies Review (2025)

Li, Ben, Yi Lu, Pasquale M. Sgro, and Xing Xu. "Trump, China, and the Republicans." The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 127, no.3 (2025): 1-44. 

Permani, Risti, and Xing Xu. "The Nexus between Natural Disasters, Supply Chains and Trade—Revisiting the Role of Preferential Trade Agreements in Disaster Risk Reduction." The World Economy 45, no. 10 (2022): 3002-3030. 

Working Papers:

`Tariff Theories in a Trade War ' (w/ Ben Li and Gary Lyn ） [Submitted]

`Industrial Robots and Global Value-Chain Resilience to Natural Disasters'  (w/ Emin Gahramanov and Xueli Tang)