Rate My Professor Lingxuan Sean Wu

Wu has published in leading journals, including "Platform Competition and Interoperability: The Net Fee Model" with Mehmet Ekmekci and Alexander White in Management Science (October 2025). His papers "Monetary Transmission and Portfolio Rebalancing: A Cross-Sectional Approach" (with Xu Lu) and "Network Lerner Index: Demand and Distortions across Industries" are conditionally accepted at the Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Economic Studies, respectively. Key working papers include "Banking on Inattention" (with Xu Lu), which received the 2026 Midwest Finance Association WRDS Outstanding Paper Award in Financial Institutions; "A Theory of Land Finance and Investment-Led Growth"; "Thinking about the Economy, Deep or Shallow?" (with Pierfrancesco Mei); and "Mental Macro-Finance Models: Evidence and Theory." His accolades include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Macroeconomics through the NBER (2024), NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business Faculty Grant (2025), John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellowship (2023), Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship (2023), invitation to the 7th Lindau Nobel Meeting on Economic Sciences (2022), and Chi-Sun Yeh Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in Physics from Tsinghua University (2019). Wu teaches Foundations of Finance at NYU Stern, has served as teaching assistant for Harvard PhD macro courses, and referees for journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He contributes to program committees for SFS Cavalcade North America 2026 and EFA Annual Meeting 2026.