FAN Xinyu

Phone:+86-10-8518 8858 ext. 8527
Email: xyfan@ckgsb.edu.cn

Assistant Professor of Economics, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

PhD, University of California, Los Angles (UCLA)

Areas of Expertise: Political economics, Organizational economics, Economic history

Biography

Dr. Xinyu Fan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at CKGSB. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) in 2018. He also holds B.Econ & Fin from the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Fan is mainly interested in political economics, organizational economics, and economic history, with a special focus on 3 research themes: 1. Self-enforcing social order amid power struggles and personnel fights; 2. Power succession and transition in dynasties and family businesses; 3. Economic origins of social, cultural, and gender norms.

Dr. Fan’s work has appeared in leading scholarly journals such as the International Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, and Journal of Theoretical Politics.

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• UniCredit Foundation – Best Paper Award on Gender Economics 10th
• UCLA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
• UCLA Department of Economics Excellence in Teaching, First Prize
• UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
• UCLA Economics Departmental Fellowship
• UCLA Economics Departmental Teaching Assistantship
• HKICPA QP Case Analysis Competition Winner and Best Presenter Award

Selected Publications

• 1. The Promotion Club (with Shuo Chen and Zhitao Zhu), Public Choice, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-026-01422-5
• 2. Starving and Deceiving? How Disasters Reshape Politicians’ Incentives to Lie (with Shuo Chen and Xuanyi Wang), Public Choice, 2025, 204: pp.287-306
• 3. The Shaping of A Gender Norm: Marriage, Labor, and Foot-binding in Historical China (with Lingwei Wu), International Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 64: pp. 1819-1850.
  UniCredit Foundation – Best Paper Award on Gender Economics 10th
• 4. Competence-Loyalty Tradeoff under Dominant Minority Rule: The Case of Manchu Rule 1650-1911 (with Shuo Chen, L. Colin Xu, and Xun Yan), Journal of Public Economics, 2023, Vol. 200: 104843
• 5. Warcraft: Legitimacy Building of Usurpers (with Shuo Chen), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, Vol. 184, pp. 409-431
• 6. Strategic Promotion, Reputation, and Responsiveness in Bureaucratic Hierarchies (with Feng Yang), Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2019, 31(3), pp. 286-307

Working Papers

• 1. Reason for Treason
  NBER Working Paper 35069
• 2. Captain on the Bridge: Corporate Restructuring in the U.S.-China Trade War
• 3. The Long Silver Lining: How Contracted Birth Cohorts Reshape Women’s Socioeconomic Status
• 4. Noble No More: Elite Recruitment, Checks and Balances, and Political Purges
• 5. Elite Persistence, Power Struggles and Coalition Dynamics
• 6. Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence