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Xuan Tian is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a scholarly focus on research spanning Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work includes extensive contributions to several subfields, notably Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management, and Management Information Systems.

The scientist's research topics encompass Corporate Finance and Governance, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Firm Innovation and Growth, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Innovation Policy and R&D, and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

Xuan Tian has co-authored multiple papers with a set of frequent collaborators including Luo Zuo, Bin Xu, Yichu Wang, Jie He, and Jie Chen.

Their scholarly publications appear in a range of journals and venues, with recurring appearances in the following:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Management Science
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
  • Journal of Accounting Research

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Xuan Tian include:

  • "Do Place-Based Policies Promote Local Innovation and Entrepreneurship?" (2021), published in European Finance Review
  • "Stock market liberalization and innovation" (2020), published in Journal of Financial Economics
  • "The real effect of partial privatization on corporate innovation: Evidence from China's split share structure reform" (2020), published in Journal of Corporate Finance
  • "Human-Robot Interaction: When Investors Adjust the Usage of Robo-Advisors in Peer-to-Peer Lending" (2021), published in Information Systems Research
  • "Financial Reporting Frequency and Corporate Innovation" (2020), published in The Journal of Law and Economics

In addition to journal articles, Xuan Tian has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Springer Nature titled "Stateness, Locality, and Grassroots Governance," scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Financial development and innovation: Cross-country evidence

    Po Hsuan Hsu;Xuan Tian;Yan Xu

  • The dark side of analyst coverage: The case of innovation

    Jie (Jack) He;Xuan Tian

  • Does Stock Liquidity Enhance or Impede Firm Innovation

    Vivian W. Fang;Xuan Tian;Xuan Tian;Sheri Tice

  • TOLERANCE FOR FAILURE AND CORPORATE INNOVATION

    Xuan Tian;Tracy Yue Wang

  • Corporate Venture Capital, Value Creation, and Innovation

    Thomas J. Chemmanur;Elena Loutskina;Xuan Tian

  • Does banking competition affect innovation

    Jess Cornaggia;Yifei Mao;Xuan Tian;Xuan Tian;Brian Wolfe

  • What Affects Innovation More: Policy or Policy Uncertainty?

    Utpal Bhattacharya;Po Hsuan Hsu;Xuan Tian;Yan Xu

  • The causes and consequences of venture capital stage financing

    Xuan Tian

  • How Does Hedge Fund Activism Reshape Corporate Innovation

    Alon Brav;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Wei Jiang;Song Ma;Xuan Tian

  • How do foreign institutional investors enhance firm innovation

    Hoang Luong;Fariborz Moshirian;Lily Nguyen;Xuan Tian

  • Do Unions Affect Innovation

    Daniel Bradley;Incheol Kim;Xuan Tian

  • The Role of Venture Capital Syndication in Value Creation for Entrepreneurial Firms

    Xuan Tian

  • Stock market liberalization and innovation

    Fariborz Moshirian;Xuan Tian;Bohui Zhang;Wenrui Zhang

  • Finance and Corporate Innovation: A Survey

    Jie Jack He;Xuan Tian

  • Do Antitakeover Provisions Spur Corporate Innovation? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

    Thomas J. Chemmanur;Xuan Tian

  • Does Stock Liquidity Enhance or Impede Firm Innovation

    Vivian W. Fang;Xuan Tian;Sheri Tice

  • Corporate Innovation Along the Supply Chain

    Yongqiang Chu;Xuan Tian;Wenyu Wang

  • The real effect of partial privatization on corporate innovation: Evidence from China's split share structure reform

    Yongxian Tan;Yongxian Tan;Xuan Tian;Xinde Zhang;Hailong Zhao

  • Do place-based policies promote local innovation and entrepreneurship?

    Xuan Tian;Jiajie Xu

  • The Dark Side of Analyst Coverage: The Case of Innovation

    Jie He;Xuan Tian

  • Corporate Venture Capital, Value Creation, and Innovation

    Thomas J. Chemmanur;Elena Loutskina;Xuan Tian

  • Banks’ Interventions and Firms’ Innovation: Evidence from Debt Covenant Violations

    Yuqi Gu;Connie X. Mao;Xuan Tian

  • Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Innovation

    Xuan Tian;Tracy Yue Wang

  • Do Anti-Takeover Provisions Spur Corporate Innovation? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

    Thomas J. Chemmanur;Xuan Tian

  • The Real Effects of Privatization: Evidence from China’s Split Share Structure Reform

    Yongxian Tan;Xuan Tian;Xinde Zhang;Hailong Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Chemmanur
Thomas J. Chemmanur Boston College
Alon Brav
Alon Brav Duke University
Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang Emory University
Bohui Zhang
Bohui Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Gregory F. Udell
Gregory F. Udell Indiana University
Utpal Bhattacharya
Utpal Bhattacharya Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ming Li
Ming Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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