Associate Professor
Business & Public Policy | Sustainability
About
Guo Xu is an associate professor at Berkeley Haas. His research focuses on the selection, recruitment, and allocation of talent in private and public sector organizations. He earned a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Personnel Economics of the State
- Development Economics
- Organizational Economics
- Labor Economics
- Political Economy
- Economic History
- International Development
- Guo Xu. The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire. Job Market Paper, London School of Economics.
2017 - Sandra Sequeira, Johannes Spinnewijn, Guo Xu. Rewarding Schooling Success and Perceived Returns to Education: Evidence from India. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.
2016 - Guo Xu, Marianne Bertrand, Robin Burgess, and Arunish Chawla. The Glittering Prizes: Career Incentives and Bureaucrat Performance. Working Paper.
2018 - Guo Xu. The Colonial Origins of Fiscal Capacity: Evidence from Patronage Governors. Working Paper.
2018 - Guo Xu. How Does Collective Reputation Affect Hiring? Selection and Sorting in an Online Labour Market. Working paper.
2015 - Tilman Brück, Guo Xu. Who Gives Aid to Whom and When? Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies. European Journal of Political Economy.
2012 - Guo Xu. Growth Accelerations Revisited. Econ Journal Watch.
2011
At Haas since 2017
- 2023 – present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
- 2017 – 2023, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
- Referee for: Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic History, Economica
- Consultant for: Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Bank of England
LSE Class Teacher Award
2017
Royal Economic Society Junior Fellowship
2016
LSE Class Teacher Award
2014
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Fellowship
2007
- Why the ‘Deep State’ Doesn’t Exist in the Civil Service, Government Executive, 04/27/2021
- The British Raj’s Spanish flu response has a lesson for India’s Covid-19 battle, Quartz India, 09/01/2020
- Nearly 200 New Profs At Top B-Schools, Poets & Quants, 10/03/2017