Jin Xie

Jin Xie is an Assistant Professor at Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS). His research interests include the intersection between accounting and macroeconomics, corporate fraud, accounting standards, antitrust, and Chinese economy. He has published in leading economics, accounting and management journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Management Science, and the AEA Papers and Proceedings. His research won the 2018 China Financial Research Conference (CFRC) Best Paper Award (2018 中国金融学术年会最佳论文奖). Before joining PHBS, Xie was an assistant professor of accounting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Common Ownership May Reduce the Entry of Cheaper Generic Drugs

In new research, Martin Schmalz and Jin Xie examine how shareholder preferences influence the United States pharmaceutical industry. They find that generic-drug manufacturers sometimes harm their firms’ own value when doing so benefits shareholder portfolios, who frequently have stakes in competing brand-name firms.

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