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Lixin Colin Xu

Lixin Colin Xu

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
41
Citations
12770
World Ranking
2132
National Ranking
1230

Overview

Lixin Colin Xu is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, business, management, accounting, economics, and econometrics. Their work spans multiple subfields, including economics and econometrics, accounting, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and strategy and management.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, with a focus on corruption and economic development, corporate finance and governance, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, demographic trends and gender preferences, international business and foreign direct investment (FDI), microfinance and financial inclusion, and poverty, education, and child welfare.

Among their recent papers are:

  • The dark side of transparency in developing countries: The link between financial reporting practices and corruption (2020), published in Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Social capital, finance, and consumption: Evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households (2022), published in Journal of Banking & Finance
  • Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China's one child policy (2021), published in World Development
  • Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms (2023), published in Journal of International Business Studies
  • Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country (2022), published in Journal of Comparative Economics

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Zhangkai Huang, Zuobao Wei, Yu Liu, Meng Miao, and Mike W. Peng.

Lixin Colin Xu publishes regularly in venues including the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Banking & Finance.

Book publications include four titles published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, such as:

  • Organizational Resources, Country Institutions, and National Culture behind Firm Survival and Growth during COVID-19 (2021)
  • The Transformative Effects of Privatization in China: A Natural Experiment Based on Politician Career Concern (2020)
  • Credit Constraints and Fraud Victimization: Evidence from a Representative Chinese Household Survey (2020)
  • Warlords, State Failures, and the Rise of Communism in China (2021)

Best Publications

  • Institutions, ownership, and finance: the determinants of profit reinvestment among Chinese firms☆

    Robert Cull;Lixin Colin Xu;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Eat, Drink, Firms, Government: An Investigation of Corruption from the Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms

    Hongbin Cai;Hanming Fang;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Formal finance and trade credit during China's transition

    Robert Cull;Lixin Colin Xu;Tian Zhu

  • Finance and Income Inequality: What Do the Data Tell Us?

    George R. G. Clarke;Lixin Colin Xu;Heng-fu Zou

  • Who gets credit? The behavior of bureaucrats and state banks in allocating credit to Chinese state-owned enterprises

    Robert Cull;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth

    Hongyi Li;Lixin Colin Xu;Heng-fu Zou

  • Government connections and financial constraints : evidence from a large representative sample of Chinese firms

    Robert Cull;Wei Li;Bo Sun;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Finance and income inequality : test of alternative theories

    George Clarke;Lixin Colin Xu;Heng Fu Zou

  • The effect of aid on growth : evidence from a quasi-experiment

    Sebastian Galiani;Stephen Knack;Lixin Colin Xu;Ben Zou

  • The Impact of Privatization and Competition in the Telecommunications Sector around the World

    Wei Li;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Privatization, competition, and corruption: how characteristics of bribe takers and payers affect bribes to utilities

    George R.G. Clarke;Lixin Colin Xu;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Politician control, agency problems and ownership reform . Evidence from China*

    Lixin Colin Xu;Tian Zhu;Yi-min Lin

  • Bureaucrats, State Banks, and the Efficiency of Credit Allocation: The Experience of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

    Robert Cull;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Hayek, local information, and commanding heights : decentralizing state-owned enterprises in China

    Zhangkai Huang;Lixing Li;Guangrong Ma;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Agency Theory and Executive Compensation: The Case of Chinese State‐Owned Enterprises

    Taye Mengistae;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Incentives for CEOs with multitasks: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises

    Chong-En Bai;Chong-En Bai;Lixin Colin Xu;Lixin Colin Xu

  • The empirical effects of performance contracts: evidence from China

    Mary Shirley;Lixin Colin Xu

  • Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage

    Ann E. Harrison;Justin Yifu Lin;L. Colin Xu

  • State-Owned Enterprises Going Public: The Case of China

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  • Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment : China versus the Rest of the World

    Joseph P.H. Fan;Randall Morck;Lixin Colin Xu;Bernard Yeung;Bernard Yeung

  • The Investment Climate and the Firm: Firm-Level Evidence from China

    Unknown

  • Empirical Effects of Performance Contracts: Evidence From China

    Mary M. Shirley;Lixin Colin Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Cull
Robert Cull World Bank
George R. G. Clarke
George R. G. Clarke Texas A&M International University
Heng-fu Zou
Heng-fu Zou Central University of Finance and Economics
Bernard Yeung
Bernard Yeung National University of Singapore
Randall Morck
Randall Morck University of Alberta
Joseph P. H. Fan
Joseph P. H. Fan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stephen Knack
Stephen Knack World Bank
David Dollar
David Dollar Brookings Institution
Sebastian Galiani
Sebastian Galiani University of Maryland, College Park

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