Xugan Chen (陈栩淦)

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I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Financial Economics at the Yale School of Management. I received my B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Finance from Zhejiang University. Previously, I was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Yale Economics / Tobin Center and the Yale School of Management.

My research interests are in innovation, AI in finance and economics, corporate finance, and entrepreneurial finance.

Email: xugan.chen@yale.edu

Working Papers

• How Do Banks Compete? Evidence from Advertising Videos, with Allen Hu and Song Ma, 2026

  • NBER Working Paper w34220 | American Banker

• Financing Risk and Startup Growth, 2026

  • Midwest Finance Association Doctoral Symposium Outstanding Paper Award

• When Lenders Meet Venture Capitalists: Relationships in Venture Debt, with Tianshu Lyu, 2025

• The Economic Value of Science, with Ernest Liu and Song Ma, 2025