Linchuan Xu

Affiliate

Expertise: development economics, environmental economics, macro-development

Email:

l.xu25@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.19 H

Connect:

Website

Links:

Economics of Environment and Energy
Development
Political Science and Political Economy
University of Manchester

Biography

Linchuan work on development economics, environmental economics, and macro-development. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Manchester. He obtained his PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics holds a BA in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University, China.

Linchuan Xu's current research interests are:

Development Economics
Political Economy

Latest

Upcoming: IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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12 November 2026

Linchuan Xu (LSE)

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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...