Chenggang Xu

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Chenggang Xu, PhD

  • Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions

Biography

Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London.

Chenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong as Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics, at Tsinghua University as Special-term Professor of Economics, at Seoul National University as World-Class University Professor of Economics, and at LSE as Reader of Economics. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association.  He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013). 

Chenggang's research is in political economics, institutional economics, law and economics, development economics, transition economics and the Chinese political economy. His research and opinions have been covered widely in the Greater China area and in the world. He is currently a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) and a research fellow of the CEPR.

publications

Journal Articles
July 2025

Does Securities Regulation Matter? Mandatory Disclosure, Excess Stock Volatility and the U.S. 1934 Securities Exchange Act

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Does Securities Regulation Matter? Mandatory Disclosure, Excess Stock Volatility and the U.S. 1934 Securities Exchange Act
Journal Articles
January 2023

Geographic Clusters, Regional Productivity and Resource Reallocation Across Firms: Evidence from China

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Geographic Clusters, Regional Productivity and Resource Reallocation Across Firms: Evidence from China

In The News

Book cover: Institutional Genes: Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism by Chenggang Xu
News

New Book by Chenggang Xu Unpacks the Deep Roots of China’s Totalitarian Regime

SCCEI Senior Research Scholar Chenggang Xu’s latest book, "Institutional Genes: Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism", explores the origins and evolution of China's institutions and communist totalitarianism.
New Book by Chenggang Xu Unpacks the Deep Roots of China’s Totalitarian Regime

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