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

Linkage-Specific Fiscal Policies in Production Networks

• Targeting Input Subsidies in Production Networks

• The Structure of Sectoral Government-Spending Multipliers  

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

News

I will be presenting my paper at the following conferences:

• North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM), Atlanta, June 4-7

• European Workshop on Economic Theory of Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET-EWET), Venice, June 10-12

• Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society - China (AMES), Hong Kong, June 19-21

• European Economic Association Annual Congress (EEA-ESEM), Dublin, August 17-21

My coauthor, Jacob Hess, will present our paper at:

• Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (RES), Newcastle, July 6-8