Sifan Xue
(薛思帆)

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the Department of Economics and the International Economics Section of Princeton University.

My research interests are in international trade and macroeconomics.

Before coming to Princeton, I received a B.A. in economics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

I am on the 2023-24 academic job market.

Job Market Paper

Trade Wars with FDI Diversion   [draft]

Work in Progress

Scalable Intangibles: To Buy or to Build? (with Anshu Chen and Jihong Song) 2023.   [draft]

International Trade, Technology Diffusion, and Economic Growth. 2023.
I show that firms internalize the growth gains from technology diffusion via trade by orienting their import preferences towards high-productivity exporters, albeit at the cost of static profits.