Xitong is a PhD job market candidate in the Department of Economics. Her main research interest is macro-finance. Her job market paper studies the effect of fundamental drivers of rising asset prices on top wealth inequality and welfare inequality through the channel of leverage. She also works on international finance topics such as the determinants of sovereign bond safety. 

Xitong holds a BSc in Mathematical Economics from Central University of Finance and Economics and a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from LSE. She has taught both introductory courses to first-year undergraduate students and advanced macroeconomics courses to Master students at LSE.

Research Interests
Macro-finance, International macroeconomics and finance, Asset pricing 

Supervisors
Ricardo Reis

Research Centre
Centre for Macroeconomics

Teaching
EC102: Economics B

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