Xufeng Wang

Welcome to my website!

I am Xufeng Wang, and I am currently a PhD student in Economics at KU Leuven, affiliated with VIVES, the Research Centre for Regional Economics.

I will be on the 2026/2027 academic job market.

Previously, I received academic training in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Current topics: Production Networks, M&A.

Research

• The Value-Chain Incidence of Industrial Policy

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• Presented at: North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), European Economic Association Annual Congress (EEA-ESEM)

• The Structure of Sectoral Government-Spending Multipliers  

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• Presented at: Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory - European Workshop on Economic Theory (SAET-EWET)

• Measuring Merger Effects With Revenue Data, with Jacob Hess (Bank of Spain)

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• Young Economist Prize at the Jornadas de Economía Industrial (JEI) 2026

• Presented at: Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (RES), Jornadas de Economía Industrial (JEI)

News

• September 2026: Our paper "Measuring Merger Effects With Revenue Data" won the Young Economist Prize (YEP-FJPB) at the XL Jornadas de Economía Industrial (JEI) in Málaga. 

• Upcoming Presentations: Conference on Network Science & Economics (Luxembourg, October 23-25).