About Me
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Economics Department at Cornell University. I work on macroeconomics, environmental economics, and information economics. I obtained a BA in Economics from Cornell in 2021.
Three specific topics that I am studying are (1) the asset origins of capital misallocation, (2) the aggregate consequences of climate change, and (3) the propagation of shocks and risks in production networks. My research tries to answer macro questions using micro data.
My full CV can be found here. You can contact me at zx88@cornell.edu.
Working Papers
The Origin of Risk
Quarterly Journal of Economics, reject and resubmit
The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change: Evidence from Global Firm-level Microdata
Misallocation with Capital Heterogeneity (Yu's Job Market Paper. He is on the 2024-2025 Market!)