Dr. Jing Xing is an Associate Professor of Finance（with tenure) at the Antai College of Economics and Management in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to joining Antai, she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Dr. Xing obtained her D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include taxation and corporate finance. Dr. Jing Xing is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and served as a Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Germany during 2015-2017. Dr. Xing is an Affiliate Member of the CESifo Network since 2018. She currently serves on the Associate Editorial Board for International Tax and Public Finance.

Research Areas

Public economics, taxation, corporate finance

Publications

Wei Cui, Mengying Wei, Weisi Xie, and Jing Xing (2025)."Corporate tax cuts for amall firms: what do firms do?" Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 91: 102709.

Jing Xing, Katarzyna Bilicka, Xipei Hou, and Sepideh Raei (2024). "How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China," Journal of Development Economics, Vol.171: 103332.S

Jing Xing and Eddy Tam (2024). "Expessways and policy choices of local governments," European Economic Review, Vol. 168: 104815.

Yinjie Victor Shen, Xipei Hou, Jing Xing and Fuzhao Zhou (2023). "Hastily announced: Mergers and acquisitions with pledging shareholders," Journal of Financial Stability, Vol. 67: 101159.

Wei Cui, Jeffrey Hicks, and Jing Xing (2022). "Cash on the table? Imperfect take-up of tax incentives and firm investment behavior," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 208: 104632.

Katarzyna Bilicka, Jing Xing and Yaxuan Qi (2022). "Real responses to anti-tax avoidance: Evidence from the UK worldwide debt cap,"  Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 214: 104742.

Clemens Fuest,  Felix Hugger,  Samina Sultan, and Xing, Jing (2022). "What drives Chinese overseas M&A investment? Evidence from micro data,"  Review of International Economics, Vol. 30 (1), 306-344.

Giorgia Maffini,  Jing Xing, and Michael P. Devereux (2019)."The impact of investment incentives: Evidence from UK corporation tax returns,"American Economic Journal: Economic Policy,  Vol. 11 (3), 361-89. 

Jing Xing (2018). "Territorial tax system reform and multinationals’ foreign cash Holdings: New evidence from Japan," Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 49, 252-282.

Michael P.  Devereux, Giorgia Maffini, and Jing Xing (2018). "Corporate tax incentives and capital structure: New evidence from UK firm-level tax returns," Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 88, 250-266.

Jing Xing and Clemens Fuest (2018). "Central-local government fiscal relations and cyclicality of public spending: Evidence from China," International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 25(4), 946-980. 

         --“How can a country 'graduate' from procyclical fiscal policy? Evidence from China,” CESifo Working Paper  Series No. 5511

Stephen Bond and Jing Xing (2015). "Corporate taxation and capital accumulation: Evidence from sectoral panel data for 14 OECD countries," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 130, 15-31.

        --Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Working Paper No. 10/15

Jing Xing (2012). "Tax structure and growth: How robust is the empirical evidence?" Economics Letters, Vol. 117(1), 379-382.

        --"Does tax structure affect economic growth? Empirical evidence from OECD countries," Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Working Paper No. 11/20

Selected Working Papers

"Investor tax breaks and financing for start-ups: Evidence from China," with Irem Guceri and Xipei Hou (PhD student), presented in the 2023 NBER Public Economics Program Meeting.

"Tax information disclosure and access to debt finance", with Victor Yinjie Shen and Xipei Hou (PhD student).

“Geographical diversification of tax havens: How did the use of tax haven subsidiaries change in recent years?” with Katarzyna Bilicka and Yaxuan Qi.

Journal referees

Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Money Banking and Credit, European Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, National Tax Journal, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Empirical Economics, China Economic Review

Fall semester              Corporate Finance (undergraduate)

                                   Corporate Finance (MBA)

　　　　　　　　   International Taxation (post-graduate)

                                   Corporate Finance (Master of Finance)