Faculty Directory | Lingxuan “Sean” Wu

Lingxuan Wu joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Finance in July 2025.

His research focuses on macroeconomics and finance, with particular interests in bounded rationality, financial intermediation, and government policy. His recent work models and tests people’s limited understanding of shock propagation and examines its implications for asset pricing and stabilization policy. He has also studied how institutional investors transmit monetary policy across asset classes, the role of financial market structure and asset supply in determining economic fluctuations and growth, and how competition in production networks shapes distortions across industries.

He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Macroeconomics awarded through the NBER in 2024, and Chi-Sun Yeh Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2019.

He received his BS in Mathematics and Physics and BA in Economics from Tsinghua University in 2019, and his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2025.