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Kairong Xiao

Kairong Xiao, Associate Professor of Business
Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business
Finance Division
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Finance
Contact
Office: 741 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Kairong Xiao is an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School. His research interests span financial intermediation, industrial organization, and political economy. His research papers have been published in top finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science. He received numerous awards for research excellence, including the Review of Financial Studies Rising Scholar Award, the Journal of Finance Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize for Distinguished Paper, and the Review of Financial Studies Best Paper Award runner-up.

Education
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Finance 2017; M.A., University of British Columbia, 2011; B.A., University of Hong Kong, Economics and Finance, 2010
Joined CBS
2017

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Type
Journal Article
Xiao, Kairong, Adrien Alvero, and Sakai Ando
. “Watch what they do, not what they say: Estimating regulatory costs from revealed preferences .”
Review of Financial Studies
(Forthcoming).
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Type
Journal Article
Xiao, Kairong, Yiming Ma, and Yao Zeng
. “Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity .”
Review of Financial Studies
(January 01, 2022).
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Type
Journal Article
Xiao, Kairong, Yifei Wang, Toni Whited, and Yufeng Wu
. “ Bank Market Power and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Structural Estimation .”
Journal of Finance
(January 01, 2022).
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Type
Journal Article
Xiao, Kairong, Kent Daniel, and Lorenzo Garlappi
. “Monetary Policy and Reaching for Income.”
Journal of Finance
(January 01, 2021).
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Type
Journal Article
Xiao, Kairong, Toni Whited, and Yufeng Wu
. “Low Interest Rates and Risk Incentives for Banks with Market Power .”
Journal of Monetary Economics
(January 01, 2021).
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong, Guangqian Pan, and Zheyao Pan
. The Shadow Cost of Collateral. Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong and Suresh Sundaresan
. Unintended Consequences of Liquidity Regulation . Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong and Suresh Sundaresan
. Liquidity Regulation and Banks: Theory and Evidence. Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong, Toni Whited, and Yufeng Wu
. Will Central Bank Digital Currency Disintermediate Banks? Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong, Olivier Darmouni,, and Kerry Y. Siani
. Nonbank Fragility in Credit Markets: Evidence from a Two-Layer Asset Demand System,. Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong
. The Value of Big Data in a Pandemic,. Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong and Adrien Alvero
. Fuzzy Bunching. Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong, Michael Ewens, and Ting Xu
. Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation. Forthcoming.
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Type
Working Paper
Sundaresan, M. Suresh and Kairong Xiao
. Liquidity Regulation and Banks: Theory and Evidence. January 28, 2022.
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Type
Working Paper
Ma, Yiming, Kairong Xiao, and Yao Zheng
. Bank Debt versus Mutual Fund Equity in Liquidity Provision. February 01, 2021.
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Type
Working Paper
Xiao, Kairong
. Monetary Transmission through Shadow Banks. January 01, 2018.
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Type
Working Paper
Francois, Patrick, Kairong Xiao, and Francesco Trebbi
. Factions in Nondemocracies: Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party . December 17, 2017.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Ma, Yiming, Kairong Xiao, and Yao Zeng
. “Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity.”
The Review of Financial Studies
. Forthcoming.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Trebbi, Francesco and Kairong Xiao
. “Regulation and Market Liquidity.”
Management Science
. Forthcoming.
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Type
Chapter
Xiao, Kairong
. “Saving Lives versus Saving Livelihoods: Can Big Data Technology Solve the Pandemic Dilemma?” In
the collective volume of ABFER 2020 Pandemic “Commentaries COVID-19: Collective Learning from the East”
, Forthcoming.
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  • Courses
  • Case Studies
Type
Course
B6301: Foundations of Valuation
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Type
Course
B6302: Corporate Finance (Half-Term)
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  • Awards & Honors
Date
2019

The XiYue Award

Date
2021

JF Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize

with Kent Daniel and Lorenzo Garlappi

Date
2019

The Wharton--Rodney L. White Center 2019 Conference

with Kent Daniel and Lorenzo Garlappi

Date
2020

RFS Rising Scholar Award

Date
2020

RFS Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award Runner up

Date
2020

WFA Cubist Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Research

Date
2022

The Utah Winter Finance Conference 2022

with Michael Ewwns and Ting Xu

FMA Conference Best Paper Awards

with Suresh Sundaresan

Date
2020

Columbia Business School NLP/ML Research support grants

Date
2019

The SummerHaven Prize for the Best Paper at Rodney White Conference at Wharton

Date
2018

LBS summer symposium

Date
2017

Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award

Date
2015

Canadian Securities Institute Research Foundation PhD Scholarship

Date
2016

St John’s College George Shen Fellowship

Date
2016

St John’s College Sir Quo-Wei Lee Fellowship

Date
2011

UBC Four Year Fellowship

Date
2014

Paul Chwelos Memorial Graduate Scholarship for Teaching Excellence

Date
2013

AFA Doctoral Student Travel Grant

Date
2011

International Tuition Award

Date
2011

E.D. MacPhee Fellowship in Commerce

Date
2012

UBC Affiliated Fellowship

Date
2012

Alan Kraus Scholarship

Date
2010

Sauder School of Business Award, 2012 Lusztig Fellowship

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