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Home | News | New Research Fellow: Xingchen Zhu
News | October 30, 2026

New Research Fellow: Xingchen Zhu

Xingchen Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Finance (with tenure) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

New Research Fellow: Xingchen Zhu

His research focuses on corporate finance and its intersections with labor economics and other fields of economics.

His work on paid sick leave has been published in the Journal of Finance and cited by policymakers in support of introducing and expanding sick pay mandates.

He holds a PhD in Finance from Cass Business School (now Bayes), University of London, and an M.Sc. in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics.