Jiajie Xu

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Finance, Chris and Elise Klein Faculty Excellence Fellow at the University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business.

My main research areas are Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation, Corporate Finance, and Urban Economics.

I received my Ph.D. in Finance from Boston College in 2022. I hold an M.Fin. from Peking University and a B.A. in Economics from Fudan University.

Email: jiajie-xu@uiowa.edu

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* My name is pronounced similarly to "Jar-Jay Shue"

Publications

[1] Is There a Trade-Off between Protecting Investors and Promoting Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence from Angel Financing
(Single-Authored) [Internet Appendix]

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 8, December 2023, Pages 3305-3341
Featured in World Bank Blogs

[2] Do Place-Based Policies Promote Local Innovation and Entrepreneurship? with Xuan Tian

Review of Finance, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2022, Pages 595-635
On the 2019 WFA Program

Selected Working Papers

[3] Can Capital Inflows Stifle Local Entrepreneurship?
(Single-Authored)

Conferences: 2023 WFA, 2022 NBER SI Entrepreneurship, NBER Business Taxation in a Federal System, AEA, EuropeanFA, NFA, MFA, NASMES, UNC Institute for Private Capital-Real Estate Research Symposium, ICEA-Taxation and Innovation, OSU PhD Conference on Real Estate and Housing, Monash FMCG, 2021 UEA, FMA
Previously circulated under the title " The Effect of Tax Incentives on Local Private Investments and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017"

[4] Treasure on the Shelf? Unlocking Innovation through R&D Licensing with Mosab Hammoudeh and Joshua Krieger

Conferences: 2024 FOM, MFA, 2023 Mitsui Finance Symposium, CICF, Bates White Life Sciences Symposium, EasternFA, Silicon Prairie Finance Conference, 2022 FMA New Idea Session
Previously circulated under the title "Dusting Off the Old Ones: Drug Licensing to Startups, Innovation Success and Efficiency"

[5] How Does VC Activism Backfire in Startup Experimentation? with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, Xiang Zheng

Conferences: 2025 NBER SI Entrepreneurship, AFA (PhD Poster), Bretton Woods Ski Conference, TAMU Young Scholars Finance Consortium, 2024 AFBC

[6] The Role of Product Life Cycle in the Benefits and Costs of IPO with Tina Oreski

Conferences: 2024 MFA, 2023 Pre-WFA ECWFC, 2022 AFA (Poster), 2022 FMA, 2022 TADC, 2022 CIRF, 2022 Guanghua Alumni Research Forum, 2021 ENTFIN, 2021 AFFI, 2021 SFI Research Day
Previously circulated under the title "Product Life-Cycle and Initial Public Offerings"

[7] Sharing Economy and Entrepreneurship with Yifei Mao, Xuan Tian, Kailei Ye

Conferences: 2023 NFA, 2022 NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group, 2022 CICF

[8] Angels and Venture Capitalists: Complementarity versus Substitution, Financing Sequence, and Relative Value Addition to Entrepreneurial Firms with Thomas Chemmanur and Harshit Rajaiya

Semi-Finalist for the FMA Best Paper Award, 2021
Featured in CLS Blue Sky Blog
Conferences: 2024 CFEA, 2021 NFA, 2021 FMA, 2022 EFMA, 2022 CIRF

[9] Trading Restriction as a Channel of Financial Contagion: Evidence from China's Stock Market with Laura Xiaolei Liu and Ninghua Zhong

Featured in VoxChina
Conferences: 2017 CICF, 2021 CMES, 2020 Guanghua Alumni Research Forum

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