Hi, I am Min Fang (方敏). Welcome to my website!
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Florida.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester in May 2021.
I work on macro-finance, monetary, spatial, and technology topics.
Check our activities at the Gator Macro/International Group.
Below are links to my CV, Google Scholar, SSRN, LinkedIn, etc.
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[17] Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms, with Po-Hsuan Hsu and Chi-Yang Tsou
[16] The Macroeconomics of Capital Durability, with Hui-Jun Chen, Spyridon Gkikopoulos, and Chi-Yang Tsou
[15] Debt Covenants as Macroeconomic Stabilizers, with Wentao Zhou
[14] The Inventory Decelerator for Monetary Policy, with Wentao Zhou
[13] Innovative Human Capital and Stock Returns: A Global Perspective, with Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hanni Jie, and Yan Xu
[12] Financing Innovation with Innovation, with Zhiyuan Chen, Minjie Deng, and Yunzhou Shang
[11] Place-based Land Policy and Firm Productivity, with Libin Han, Zibin Huang, Ming Lu, and Li Zhang
[10] Incomplete Information and Irreversible Investment, with Jonathan Adams, Cheng Chen, Takahiro Hattori, and Eugenio Rojas
Under Revision
[09] Lumpy Investment, Fluctuations in Volatility and Monetary Policy, with Wentao Zhou
Review of Economic Studies, Rej&R (1st Round Revising)
[08] Short-term Finance, Long-term Effects, with Kenza Benhima, Omar Chafik, and Wenxia Tang
Journal of Political Economics Macroeconomics, R&R (1st Round Revising)
[07] Monetary Policy and Firm Heterogeneity: The Role of Leverage Since the Financial Crisis, with Aeimit Lakdawala and Timothy Moreland
Management Science, R&R (2nd Round Revising)
[06] Place-based Land Policy and Spatial Misallocation: Theory and Evidence from China, with Libin Han, Zibin Huang, Ming Lu, and Li Zhang
International Economic Review, R&R (2nd Round Resubmitted)
[05] Sex and the City: Demographics, Spatial Sorting, and the Marriage Market, with Zibin Huang, Yushi Wang, and Yu Yang
International Economic Review, Special Issue (Accepted for PHBS-IER Conference)
Publications
[04] The Rise of AI Pricing: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Firm Performance, with Jonathan Adams, Zheng Liu, and Yajie Wang
Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2026, Volume 157: 103875
[03] A Note on Nonconvex Adjustment Costs in Lumpy Investment Models: Mean versus Variance
Macroeconomic Dynamics, June 2023, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp.1166-1177
[02] Migration, Housing Constraints, and Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis of China, with Zibin Huang
Labour Economics, October 2022, Volume 78: 102200
[01] Debt Maturity Heterogeneity and Investment Responses to Monetary Policy, with Minjie Deng
European Economic Review, May 2022, Volume 144: 104095
