Before joining Ohio State, Dr. Xiaoji Lin taught at London School of Economics and Political Science. His research fields include asset pricing and macroeconomics. Dr. Lin has published at leading academic journals including Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. His doctoral thesis won the Trefftzs award at 2008 Western Finance Association annual meetings.

Areas of Expertise

• Theoretical and Empirical Asset Pricing
• Macroeconomics

Education

• PhD, University of Minnesota
• MA, Nankai University, China
• BA, Nankai University, China

FIN 722 - Investment Management

Students should expect to learn about the fundamental principles of investment management. The goal is to equip students with the tools necessary to make good investment decisions.

SSRN Author Page

• Micro Frictions, Asset Pricing, and Aggregate Implications, November 2011, with Jack Favilukis.
• Covariances versus Characteristics in General Equilibrium, September 2011, with Lu Zhang, SAS and Matlab Codes
• Infrequent Renegotiation of Wages: A Solution to Several Asset Pricing Puzzles, March 2011, with Jack Favilukis
• Brand Capital, Firm Value and Asset Returns, April 2011, with Frederico Belo and Maria Ana Vitorino
• Technology Adoption, Vintage Capital and Asset Prices, September 2009
• Labor Hiring, Investment and Stock Return Predictability in the Cross Section, May 2009, with Santiago Bazdresch and Frederico Belo
  
  

• The Inventory Growth Spread, with Frederico Belo, 2012, Review of Financial Studies, 25 (1): 278-313.
• Endogenous Technological Progress and the Cross Section of Stock Returns, 2012, Journal of Financial Economics, 103 (2): 411-427.  [Winner of the Trefftzs Award for the Best Student Paper, WFA 2008]

Professional Presentations

• Risk Analysis of Investment-Based Models,  Guest Lecture, University of Minnesota, 2010
• Innovation and Investment Bubbles,  by Langberg and Kumar, Western Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2009
• Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns, by Gomes, Kogan and Yogo, FMG conference on Housing, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy, 2009