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

Curriculum Vitae   Google Scholar   SSRN

* 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]

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


Selected Working Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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