Xingwang Qian Professor Economics and Finance Department SUNY Buffalo State University

Contact Information: Cassety Hall 245 Economics and Finance Department SUNY Buffalo State University 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo, NY 14222 Office Phone: (716) 878-6031 Email: qianx@buffalostate.edu Google Scholar NBER

Curriculum Vitae Research We generate a data set for China’s capital controls based on the approach outlined in Chen and Qian (2016). The data set covers index data for capital controls on gross capital flows, inflows, outflows, and individual types of capitals, including FDIs, portfolio debt and equity securities, and trade credits, etc. Data are available for download here. We updated the data to December 2022. Working Papers: “Cyclicality of international reserves, exchange rate flexibility and output volatility,” joint with Eiji Fujii (Kwansei Gakuin University), CESifo Working Paper #11800, March 2025. “International Reserve Management, Global Financial Shocks, and Firms’ Investment in Emerging Market Economies,” joint with Joshua Aizenmen (USC and NBER) and Yin-Wong Cheung (UC Santa Cruz), 2021, NBER working paper #29303. “Uncertainty and sequential outward foreign direct investment,” Joint with Jianhong Qi (Shandong University). “The reinforcement effect of international reserves for financial stability,” Joint with Andreas Steiner (University of Groningen and CESifo). Publications: “External debt currency denomination and the currency composition of foreign exchange reserves,” joint with Dong Lu and Wenyu Zhu (Renmin University of China), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 86, 2024. "International reserve management and firm investment in emerging market economies." Joint with Joshua Aizenman (USC) and Yin-Wong Cheung (UCSC), Open Economies Review (2024): 1-38. “U.S. monetary policy uncertainty and RMB deviations from covered interest parity,” joint with Zhitao Lin (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China), City University of Hong Kong, GRU working paper #2020-029. Forthcoming in Economic and Political Studies, 2022. “China’s Capital controls and the volatility of the RMB covered interest deviation,” joint with Zhitao Lin (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China) and Jinzhao Chen (ESSCA, France), forthcoming in Review of International Economics (2021). “Provincial interdependence and China’s “irrational” outward foreign direct investment,” joint with Mengheng Liu (Zhejiang University), Open Economies Review, 2021, 32 (1), 153-181. “The Currency Composition of International Reserves, Demand for International Reserves, and Global Safe Assets,” joint with Joshua Aizenmen (USC and NBER) and Yin-Wong Cheung (City U. of Hong Kong), Journal of International Money and Finance, 2020, Volume 102, 102-120. “Belt and road initiative and Chinese firms' outward foreign direct investment,” joint with Shu Yu (World Bank), Taoxiong Liu (Tsinghua University), Emerging Markets Review, 2019, Vol. 41, 1-22. “The Hoarding of International Reserves: It’s a neighborly day in Asia,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong) and Eli Remolona (BIS), Pacific Economic Review, 24 (2), 208-240. “International reserves and the maturity of external debt,” joint with Andreas Steiner (University of Groningen and CESifo), Journal of International Money and Finance, 73 (2017) 399–418. “Measuring on-going changes in China’s capital controls: A de jure and a hybrid index data set,” joint with Jinzhao Chen (ESSCA, France), China Economic Review, Volume 38, April 2016, Pages 167–182. “China-US Trade Flow Behavior: The Implications of Alternative Exchange Rate Measures and Trade Classifications,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong) and Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER). Review of World Economics, 152(1), Page 43-67. “Corruption Distance and Foreign Direct Investment,” joint with Jesus Sandoval-Hernandez (University of California, Merced). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 1-20, 2015. “International Reserves and the Composition of Equity Capital Inflows,” joint with Andreas Steiner (University of Osnabruck, Germany), Review of International Economics, Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 379 - 409. “The Missing Link: China’s Contracted Engineering Projects in Africa,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (City University of Hong Kong), Jakob de Haan (De Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Review of Development Economics, Volume 18, Issue 3, August 2014, Pages: 564–580. “Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER), the NBER Working Paper #17875, Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 31(8), 2013. The NBER Working Paper version: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17875 “China’s Outward Direct Investment in Africa,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Jakob de Haan (De Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Review of International Economics, Vol. 20, Issue 2, 2012. “Chinese Investments in Africa,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Jakob de Haan (De Nederlandsche Bank), and Shu Yu (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), in Yin-Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan, eds., "The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy", 2012, MIT Press. “China’s Outward Direct Investment and Its Oil Quest,” in Yin-Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan, eds.," The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy ", 2012, MIT Press. “An Analysis on Political Risks and the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing and Industrial Economies,” joint with Kyeonghi Baek (SUNY Buffalo State), Economics, Management and Financial Markets, 6 (4), 2011. “Deviations from Covered Interest Parity: the Case of China,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), in Yin-Wong Cheung, Vikas Kakkar, and Guonan Ma, eds., Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, the Evolving Role of Asia in Global Finance, 2011, ISBN 978-0-85724-745-2. “Capital Flight: China’s Experience,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2010. CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2931, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1546971 “Hoarding of International Reserves: Mrs. Machlup’s Wardrobe and the Joneses,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung(University of California, Santa Cruz), Review of International Economics, Vol. 17, Issue 4, 2009. “Empirics of China’s Outward Direct Investment,” joint with Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2009. Other Publications: “Chinese Exchange Rate, the US Current Account Deficit, and the Global Imbalance,” joint with Jinzhao Chen (Paris School of Economics), International Affair Forum, the Center for International Relation, Washington DC, 2012, page 97. Teaching “International Finance” “Corporate Finance” Students: please visit your Blackboard webpage for the course information.