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Dr Fang Xu
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Marie Jahoda 254

  • Economics

Research area(s)

  • Empirical Finance
  • Applied Macroeconomics
  • Time Series Econometrics
  • Textual Analysis

Research Interests

Time series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics and finance

Research grants and projects

Research Projects

Grants

Impacts of news coverage on the financial markets
Funder: British Academy
Duration: June 2022 - May 2024

Despite the key influence of news coverage on the financial markets, there has been no large-scale examination of this across different countries and languages. The critical barriers are the different languages and the need to analyse the news content. To address this gap, we will study how news coverage in English, French and German impacts the volatility of stock markets in the US, UK, France and Germany. Specifically, we intend to use a comprehensive dataset of worldwide online news articles, together with a powerful and novel multilingual text processing technology, to assess the value of relevant news in each country. We will develop a 鈥渘ews intensity鈥 measure and study its impact on the volatility of each country鈥檚 stock market. The potential results of this project could be extremely important for investors, investment managers and regulators.

Theoretical and empirical studies of global current account imbalances
Funder: Fritz-Thyssen Foundation
Duration: May 2008 - April 2011

Project details

Current:

  • "Multi-lingual news and financial markets across countries”, in collaboration with I. Avoiz at Ben Gurion University, Israel
  • "Asset prices and market risk during downturn with high frequency data”, in collaboration with Dr. R. Versteeg at Imperial College London, UK
  •  "Time-varying impacts of monetary policy on financial markets", in collaboration with Dr. M. Roestel at University Kiel and Prof. H. Herwartz at University of Göttingen, Germany

Completed: 

  • "News coverage and economic uncertainty", in collaboration with Dr. J. Wu at Queen Mary University of London
  • "Investor attention measured by Google search queries and financial market volatility", in collaboration with Prof. H. Herwartz at University of Göttingen
  • "The role of low mortgage rates and securitization in the U.S. housing boom", in collaboration with Prof. H. Herwartz at University of Göttingen
  • "Determinants of the stock price to dividend ratio", in collaboration with Dr. M. Roestel at University Kiel and Prof. H. Herwartz at University of Göttingen
  • "Tests for unit roots in bounded time series", in collaboration with Prof. G. Cavaliere at University of Exeter and University of Bologna
  • "The role of log transformation in forecasting economic variables", in collaboration with Prof. H. Lütkepohl at the Freie University Berlin
  • "Sustainability of current account imbalances and the saving-investment relationship", in collaboration with Prof. H. Herwartz at University of Göttingen
  • "New approaches to bootstrap inference in functional coefficient models", in collaboration with Prof. H. Herwartz at University of Göttingen
  • "The role of the consumption-wealth ratio in financial markets"

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