Lingxuan “Sean” Wu

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at NYU Stern. My research interests are in finance, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics. I hold a PhD in Economics from Harvard University (2025), as well as a BS in Mathematics and Physics and a BA in Economics from Tsinghua University (2019).

You can find my CV here and Google Scholar profile here. I can be reached at lingxuanwu@stern.nyu.edu.

Publications

Network Lerner Index: Demand and Distortions across Industries
Review of Economic Studies, Conditionally Accepted
Platform Competition and Interoperability: The Net Fee Model (with Mehmet Ekmekci and Alexander White)
Management Science, October 2025.

Working Papers

A Theory of Land Finance and Investment-Led Growth, March 2026.
Banking on Inattention (with Xu Lu), March 2026.
[VoxEU column: "Banking on inattention: When deposits hedge or amplify interest rate risk"]
* 2026 MFA WRDS Outstanding Paper Award in Financial Institutions
Monetary Transmission and Portfolio Rebalancing: A Cross-Sectional Approach (with Xu Lu), February 2026.
Revised and Resubmitted to Journal of Financial Economics
Thinking about the Economy, Deep or Shallow? (with Pierfrancesco Mei), December 2025.
Reject and Resubmit at American Economic Review

Mental Macro-Finance Models: Evidence and Theory, January 2023.

Discussions

Consumer Wealth and Price Expectations (by Rodrigo S. Dias, Eesha Sharma, and Gavan J. Fitzsimons), 2025 Chicago Booth Behavioral Approaches to Financial Decision Making Conference.
Mental Models and Financial Forecasts (by Francesca Bastianello, Paul H. Décaire, and Marius Guenzel), 2025 SFS Cavalcade North America.

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