Xuan Wang

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance at SBE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . I am also a Candidate Fellow and Lecturer at Tinbergen Institute.

I obtained my PhD (D.Phil) in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School in 2020. Before my PhD, I obtained MPhil in Economics with Distinction from the Department of Economics, University of Oxford and worked as a full-time economist at the Bank of England.

Research interests: international and macro-finance, financial intermediation, money and default, and macroeconomics.

Teaching: Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions (MPhil core module), Tinbergen Institute, (2021- ) ; International Finance, VU Amsterdam, (2020-) .

I am also a co-organiser of the Tinbergen Macro Seminar Series since September 2021.

*Recent and upcoming activities (2020-2022): *

Co-organiser of the 2021 Oxford Saïd- Risk Center at ETH Zürich Macro-Finance Conference, Programme Link

Programme committee of the 2022 Oxford Financial Intermediation Theory Conference (OxFIT)

Awarded Research Fellowship for short-term visit at Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

2022 American Economic Association AEA Meetings (presentation)

2021 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (presentation) Seminar at Fox School of Business, Temple University (scheduled)

2021 European Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (presentation)

2021 IFABS Oxford Conference (presentation)

2021 Royal Dutch Economic Association KVS New Paper Session (presentation)

Junior European Finance (JEF) Seminar

Seminar at DG ECFIN European Commission

2021 European Economic Association Annual Congress (presentation)

2021 IBEFA Summer Meeting, Fed San Francisco (presentation)

2021 Midwest Finance Association Conference (presentation)

2021 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (presentation) IESEG School of Finance seminar

2020 European Central Bank's Young Economist's Competition (Finalist)

2020 European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (presentation) Dutch Economist Week 2020 (presentation)

2020 Sixth Annual Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai (VINS) Conference (presentation) CEPR Conference on "Secular Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and Low Inflation" (presentation by co-author)

2020 University of Chicago BFI Macro Finance Research Summer Session for Young Scholars (presentation)

2020 IWH-Fin-Fire Workshop (presentation) 35th Annual Congress of EEA (presentation)

2020 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association CEBRA (presentation) Rotterdam School of Management Brown Bag seminar (presentation) VU Finance Brown Bag Seminar (presentation)

Working Papers

"Bankruptcy Codes and Risk Sharing of Currency Unions" (job market paper) Previously circulated as "When Do Currency Unions Benefit from Default?" 2020 ECB Young Economist's Competition Finalist, Invited seminar: DG ECFIN European Commission, IESEG School of Finance.

Support for Small Businesses amid COVID-19, joint with Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos CEPR Discussion Paper Series link Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper Series link Media: VoxEU , Economisch Statistische Berichten 105(4789), 10 Sep 2020 P405.

Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy, joint with Charles A.E. Goodhart, M. Udara Peiris, and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos CEPR Discussion Paper Series DP16799

Designing Financial Support for SMEs during Crises: the Role of Bank Lending, joint with Tianxi Wang Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper Series

A Macro-Financial Perspective to Analyse Maturity Mismatch and Default
2nd Revise and Resubmit Journal of Banking and Finance

Publications

Banks, Money, and the Zero Lower Bound on Deposit Rates, joint with Michael Kumhof Bank of England working paper, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper Series. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021 Aug 6, p.104208.

Debt Restructuring in the Eurozone, joint with Dimitrios. P. Tsomocos A non-technical paper published as a book chapter in “The Economics of Monetary Unions. Past Experiences and the Eurozone” Castaneda, Roselli and Wood (Editors). Routledge Academic Publishing, 2020.