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Nancy Xu

Assistant Professor

Department

Finance

Profile

Nancy Xu is an assistant professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. Her primary research interests are asset pricing and financial econometrics. Her current work focuses on the identification of the dynamics of risk aversion (price of risk) and economic uncertainties (amount of risk) and their effects on both domestic and international asset markets. She developed a听听that is consistent with economic models and can be extracted from high frequency financial information. This research has been covered by academic and research-based policy analysis and commentaries (e.g.,听). She received her Ph.D. in finance from Columbia Business School and B.S. in statistics from University of Washington.听She is also a consultant for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.听

Publication

  • 鈥.鈥 (With Yang You.)听Journal of Financial Economics,听168: 104037. 2025
  • 鈥.鈥 (With Juan M. Londono.)听Management Science,听70(9):6374-94. 2024.听

  • 鈥溾 (With Geert Bekaert and Eric Engstrom.) Management Science, 68 (6), 3975-4004. June, 2022.听
  • 鈥.鈥听Journal of Financial Economics,听139 (1), 288-312. January, 2021.听

Working Papers

  • "" (With Yang You and Yuxi Yang).听
  • ".鈥 (With Geert Bekaert and Tiange Ye.)听
  • 鈥淟egislative Trades.鈥 (With Ziming Dong.)听
  • "" (With Slava Fos.)
    • "" (With听Vyacheslav Fos and听Tommaso Tamburelli.)
    • 鈥溙Dissertation Award, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

    • 鈥.鈥 (With Geert Bekaert and Marie Hoerova.)

    • 鈥 (With Xing Huang.)

    Selected Appointments and Awards

    • 2025-: Visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Department
    • 2022-2023: Boston College Kelley Research Grant, "Fiscal Policy Expectation"
    • 2021 Spring: Carroll School of Management, Teaching Star
    • 2020: INQUIRE Europe research grant
    • 2019:听Semifinalist, 2019 FMA Global Conference Best Paper Awards
    • 2018:听Global Association of Research Professionals Research Excellence Award, CIRF
    • 2018-19:听Boston College Research Expense Grant, 鈥淢ood Propagation鈥
    • 2017: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Summer PhD Dissertation Internship
    • 2015-2016:听Werner L. and Adriana Chilton Doctoral Fellowship, Columbia Business School
    • 2015: 28th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2nd best paper at the Ph.D. Forum
    • 2012-2016:听Columbia Business School Doctoral Full Fellowship