Linchuan Xu

PhD Student

Expertise: development economics

Email:

l.xu25@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.19 H

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Links:

Economics of Environment and Energy
Development
Political Science and Political Economy
Department of Economics

Biography

Linchuan is a PhD Economics candidate. He achieved an MSc in Economics (Distinction) at LSE, and also holds a BA in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University, China.

Linchuan Xu's current research interests are:

Development Economics
Political Economy

Latest

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Can the Invisible Hand Correct Misallocations? Evidence from Labour Agencies in China

12 June 2025

Linchuan Xu (LSE)

Can market forces correct misallocations through endogenous institutional change? This paper explores this question by studying the expansion of labour agencies in a developing economy, and its impact on factor allocatio... Read more...

Development Discussion Papers

Organisation form and river quality: Theory and evidence from China

15 November 2023

Linchuan Xu

Should the government set up a separate ministry for all environmental issues, or ask all the existing decentralized and regional political organizations to have an environment mandate? This paper studies how organizatio... Read more...