Chenzi Xu
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Hello and welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Berkeley, I was an assistant professor of finance at Stanford GSB.

UPDATE: I am co-organizing the following conferences:
NBER Summer Institute IFM Data Session on July 10 in Cambridge, MA with Jesse Schreger (Columbia GSB).

SITE session on ''Trade and Finance" on July 25-26 at Stanford with Juliane Begenau (Stanford GSB), Adrien Matray (Stanford GSB), and Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of NY). The conference will feature papers on international economics, finance, and banking.

Second Annual GCAP conference on September 27-28 at Columbia with Antonio Coppola (Stanford GSB), Matteo Maggiori (Stanford GSB), and Jesse Schreger (Columbia GSB). The conference will feature papers on international economics and finance broadly defined.



My research is on international macroeconomics and finance, banking, and trade, often through the lens of economic history.

I am affiliated with the NBER and CEPR. I am an Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy.

Please email me if you are interested in part-time research assistance opportunities.


PUBLICATIONS

"Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures"

Quarterly Journal of Economics (2022)

Bibtex   •   Abstract   •   Draft   •   Online Appendix   •   Replication

Publisher Version (Open Access)

Awards: AQR Top Finance Graduate Award, BlackRock Applied Research Prize Finalist, French Finance Association Research Prize, Economic History Society New Researcher Prize, World Economic History Congress Poster Prize

Media: Econimate VideoTrade Talks PodcastTelegraph UKEconomistMicroeconomic InsightsHoover InstituteStanford GSB Insights


"Banking Crises in Historical Perspective"

Annual Review of Financial Economics (2023)

with Carola Frydman
Bibtex   •   Abstract   •   Draft  •   Slides

Publisher Version (Open Access)

Media: Alternatives Economiques


"Real Effects of Supplying Safe Private Money"

Journal of Financial Economics (2024)

with He Yang
Bibtex   •   Abstract   •   Draft   •   Online Appendix   •   Replication

Publisher Version

Awards: WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research

Media: VoxEUStanford GSB Insights

RESEARCH


"Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance"

with Antonio Coppola and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Bibtex   •   Abstract  •   Draft

Media: Stanford GSB Insights


"EXIM's Exit: The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies"

with Adrien Matray, Karsten Mueller, and Poorya Kabir
Bibtex   •   Abstract  •   Draft  •   Replication   •  
Certification of Reproducibility

Media: VoxEUStanford GSB Insights


"Branching Out: Bank Deregulation and Long-Run Growth"

with Sarah Quincy
Abstract


"Robust Elasticity Estimates in Disaggregated Data"

with Paul Beaumont and Adrien Matray
Abstract


"The Financing Channel of Gains From Trade"

with Carlos Burga and Adrien Matray
Abstract


"Origins of Serial Sovereign Default"

with Sasha Indarte
Abstract

Funding: NSF Grant #2117003


"International Banks: Re-Agents of Globalization"

with Wilfried Kisling and Chris M. Meissner
Abstract

Funding: British Academy Leverhulme Grant


Other Writing

"The Dirty Little Secret of Credit Card Rewards Programs"

New York Times Op-Ed (2023)

with Jeffrey Reppucci
Article   •   Video

Interviews

"Office Artifact: Civil War Bond Advertisement"

GSB Insights
Article

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