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I am an Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis. I study firm behavior in response to technology improvements and government policies. I am affiliated with the CESifo.
Research interests: Trade, Firm dynamics, Regional economics
Here is my CV.
You can contact me at xian.jiang@ucdavis.edu.
(My first name is pronounced as "shee-an".)
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
WORKING PAPERS
WORKING PAPERS
The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope (with Hannah Rubinton), December 2025
Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion, December 2024, R&R, JPE Macro
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment: Evidence from China VAT Reform (with Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suarez-Serrato and Daniel Yi Xu), Review of Economic Studies, Volume 90, Issue 2, March 2023, Pages 634-674
WORK IN PROGRESS
WORK IN PROGRESS
Market Distortion under Weak State: Evidence from China’s Millennia-Long Salt Administration (with Ying Bai, Ruixue Jia, Runnan Wang, and Daniel Yi Xu)
R&D Mobility (with Rahul Gupta and William Kerr)
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