Welcome! I am an economist working on topics in international trade using tools from industrial organization. My research also draws on production networks, firm dynamics, and labor economics.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at City University of Hong Kong and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at University College London.
I received a Ph.D. in Economics from the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago in 2026.
My CV is available here.
You can contact me at xlkong.econ@gmail.com or xikong@cityu.edu.hk.
Endogenous Production Networks with Fixed Costs (with Emmanuel Dhyne, Ken Kikkawa, Magne Mogstad, and Felix Tintelnot)
Journal of International Economics, 2023, Volume 145, 103841
Doing Business Far from Home: Multinational Firms and Labor Market Outcomes in Saudi Arabia (with Alessandra L. González)
European Economic Review, 2025, Volume 172, 104944
Recipient of the Gregory Chow Rising Star Award, Chinese Economists Society, 2026
Firm Life Cycle, Endogenous Production Networks, and Frictional Labor Market (with Emmanuel Dhyne and Toshiaki Komatsu)
Policy Signals, Cultural Norms, and the Misallocation of Talent (with Alessandra L. González and Jennifer Peck)
Geographic Diversification in Home Insurance Markets (with Christina Qiu and Mark Walker)
Place-Based Industrial Policy in Endogenous Production Networks (with Kieran Marray, Kathryn McDonald, Peter Öhlinger, and Ruochen Dai)
Trade Credit Insurance and Supply Chain Resilience (with TSZ Chai Fung, Honglin Li, and Woongchae Yoo)