Lingxuan “Sean” Wu

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at NYU Stern. I study finance and macroeconomics, with a particular focus on bounded rationality and market structure. I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2025, and a BS in Mathematics and Physics and a BA in Economics from Tsinghua University in 2019.

Here are my CV and Google Scholar profile. I can be reached at lingxuanwu@stern.nyu.edu.

Publications

Competition in Markups: A Theory of the Lerner Index in Networks and General Equilibrium
Review of Economic Studies, accepted
Monetary Transmission and Portfolio Rebalancing: A Cross-Sectional Approach (with Xu Lu)
Journal of Financial Economics, 2026
Platform Competition and Interoperability: The Net Fee Model (with Mehmet Ekmekci and Alexander White)
Management Science, 2025

Working Papers

A Theory of Land Finance and Investment-Led Growth, 2026
Banking on Inattention (with Xu Lu), 2026
[VoxEU column: "Banking on inattention: When deposits hedge or amplify interest rate risk"]
🏆 European Systemic Risk Board Ieke van den Burg Prize for research on systemic risk, 2026
🏆 Midwest Finance Association WRDS Outstanding Paper Award in Financial Institutions, 2026
Thinking about the Economy, Deep or Shallow? (with Pierfrancesco Mei), 2025
Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review

Mental Macro-Finance Models: Evidence and Theory, 2023

Discussions

2026 SFS Cavalcade North America
Analysts' Belief Formation in Their Own Words by Shikun (Barry) Ke
2025 Chicago Booth Behavioral Approaches to Financial Decision Making Conference
Consumer Wealth and Price Expectations by Rodrigo S. Dias, Eesha Sharma, and Gavan J. Fitzsimons
2025 SFS Cavalcade North America
Mental Models and Financial Forecasts by Francesca Bastianello, Paul H. Décaire, and Marius Guenzel

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