Xingwang Qian is a Professor of Economics and Finance at SUNY Buffalo State University. He holds a PhD in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a BA in accounting from Nankai University in China. His main research interests are in areas of international finance and global trade. Xingwang has published in economics journals on a wide range of global economy topics, including foreign direct investment in and from emerging markets and developing economies, central banks’ hoarding of foreign exchange reserves, global financial cycles, financial openness and restrictions on cross-border capital flows, and the Chinese economy at global perspective. Xingwang is an author of National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also holds research positions in international institutes and foreign universities around the global, including Bank of International Settlement (BIS), Hong Kong Institution of Monetary Research (HKIMR), Santa Cruz Institution of International Economics (SCIIE), Institute of Empirical Research in University of Osnabruck, Germany, and Global Research Unit (GRU) of City University of Hong Kong.
Xingwang Qian, SUNY Buffalo State
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“Hoarding of International Reserves: A neighborly day in Asia” joint with Yin Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong) and Eli Romolona (BIS), forthcoming Pacific Economic Review, special issue.
“China’s Capital controls and the volatility of the RMB covered interest deviation,” joint with Zhitao Lin (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China) and Jinzhao Chen (ESC Clermont Business School, Clermont-Ferrand, France), Review of International Economics, 30, no. 1 (2022): 205-236.
“U.S. monetary policy uncertainty and RMB deviations from covered interest parity,” joint with Zhitao Lin (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China), forthcoming in Economics and Political Studies (2022).
“Provincial interdependence and China’s “irrational” outward foreign direct investment,” joint with Mengheng Liu (Zhejiang University), Open Economies Review, 2021, 32 (1), 153-181.
“International Reserve Management, Global Financial Shocks, and Firms’ Investment in Emerging Market Economies,” joint with Joshua Aizenmen (USC and NBER) and Yin-Wong Cheung (UC Santa Cruz), 2021, NBER working paper #29303. Featured in NBER The Digest International Reserve Management in Emerging Market Economies | NBER
“Corruption Distance and Foreign Direct Investment,” joint with Jesus SandovalHernandez (University of California, Merced). 2021. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Volume 52, Issue 2, 400-419.
“U.S. monetary policy uncertainty and RMB deviations from covered interest parity,” joint with Zhitao Lin (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China), City University of Hong Kong, GRU working paper #2020-029.
“The Currency Composition of International Reserves, Demand for International Reserves, and Global Safe Assets,” joint with Joshua Aizenmen (USC and NBER) and Yin Wong Cheung (City U. of Hong Kong), Journal of International Money and Finance, 2020, Volume 102, 102-120.
The NBER Working Paper #25934: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25934
“The Behavior of International Reserves – A Cyclicality Perspective” joint with Eiji Fujii, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. 2019.
“Chinese Firms’ Outward Investment and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’”, joint with Shu Yu (World Bank) and Taoxiong Liu (Tsinghua University). 2019.
“External debt currency denomination and the currency composition of foreign exchange reserves,” joint with Dong Lu (Renmin University) and Wenyu Zhu (Renmin University). 2018.
“International Reserves, External Debt Maturity, and the Reinforcement Effect for Financial Stability”, joint with Andreas Steiner (University of Groningen and ifo Institute), Journal of International Money and Finance, 73 (2017): 399-418.
“The reinforcement effect of international reserves for financial stability,” Joint with Andreas Steiner (University of Groningen and CESifo), University of Groningen Working Paper. 2017.
Uncertainty and Sequential Outward Foreign Direct Investment”, joint with Jianhong Qi (Shandong University), City University of Hong Kong, GRU working paper #2017-016.
“International Reserves, External Debt Maturity, and the Reinforcement Effect for Financial Stability,” Jointwith Andreas Steiner (University of Groningen and CESifo), City University of Hong Kong, GRU working paper #2016-012. Ifo working Paper No. 211, 01-43.
“Measuring the on-going changes in China’s capital flow management: A de jure and a hybrid index data set”, joint with Jinzhao Chen (ESSCA, France), China Economic Review, Volume 38, April (2016): 167–182.
“China-US Trade Flow Behavior: The Implications of Alternative Exchange Rate Measures and Trade Classifications,” joint with Yin Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong) and Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER), 2015, Review of World Economics, 152(1), 43-67.
“International Reserves and the Composition of Equity Capital Inflows”, joint with Andreas Steiner (University of Osnabruck, Germany), 2014, Review of International Economics, Volume 22, Issue 2, 379-409.
“The Missing Link: China’s Contracted Engineering Projects in Africa”, joint with Yin Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong), Jakob de Haan (Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), 2014, Review of Development Economics, Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 564–580.
“Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 31, Issue 8, Pages 2127-46, 2012.
The NBER Working Paper #17875: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17875
“China’s Outward Direct Investment in Africa”, joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Jakob de Haan (De Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Review of International Economics, Vol. 20, Issue 2, 2012.
Chinese Investments in Africa”, joint with Yin Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Jakob de Haan (De Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), in Yin Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan, eds., "The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy", 2012, MIT Press.
“China’s Outward Direct Investment and Its Oil Quest”, in Yin-Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan, eds.,"The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy ", 2012, MIT Press.
“Chinese Exchange Rate, the US Current Account Deficit, and the Global Imbalance”, joint with Jinzhao Chen (Paris School of Economics), International Affair Forum, the Center for International Relation, Washington DC. 2012 http://www.ia-forum.org/Files/RCHTRV.pdf
“Deviations from Covered Interest Parity: the Case of China”, joint with Yin Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), in Yin-Wong Cheung, Vikas Kakkar, and Guonan Ma, eds., Frontiers of Economics and globalization, the Evolving Role of Asia in Global Finance, 2011, ISBN 978-0- 85724-745-2.
“An Analysis on Political Risks and the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing and Industrial Economies,” joint with Kyeonghi Baek (SUNY Buffalo State), Economics, Management and Financial Markets, 6 (4), 2011.
“Capital Flight: China’s Experience” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2010.
“Hoarding of International Reserves: Mrs. Machlup's Wardrobe and the Joneses”, joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Review of International Economics, Vol. 17, Issue 4, 2009.
“Empirics of China’s Outward Direct Investment”, joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2009.
“Capital Controls and the Volatility of Cross-border Capital Flows”, Joint with Zhitao Lin (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China) and Jinzhao Chen (ESSCA, Franc).
“Chinese Investments in Africa, a Dynamic Tobit Approach”, joint with Yin- Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong), Jakob de Haan (De Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (World Bank).