Prof. Dacheng XIU
金融学
Visiting Professor

KK 1112

Academic & Professional Qualification
  • Ph.D., M.A., Princeton University
  • B.S., University of Science and Technology of China
Biography

Prof. Dacheng Xiu is the Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Econometrics, Statistics, and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He develops and analyzes statistical and machine-learning methods, applying them to financial data to investigate economic implications. He has contributed to early developments at the intersection of asset pricing and machine learning. His current research emphasizes theory—clarifying when and why modern machine-learning tools work, and delineating their limits. His research has appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Annals of Statistics.

Prof. Xiu serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently holds and has previously held several editorial positions, including Co-Editor of Journal of Business & Economic Statistic, Harvard Data Science Review, and Journal of Financial Econometrics, as well as Associate Editor for journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science, and Journal of Econometrics. He has received several recognitions for his research, including Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, AQR Insight Award, Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize, Bates-White Prize, and best paper prizes at various conferences. He was recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40-under-40 Business School Professors.

Research Interest
  • Finance
  • Econometrics
  • Statistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
Selected Publications
  • “Continuous-Time Fama-MacBeth Regressions,” with Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Jean Jacod, Review of Financial Studies 38(12) (2025), 3542-3579.
  • “Test Assets and Weak Factors,” with Stefano Giglio and Dake Zhang, Journal of Finance 80(1) (2025), 259-319.
  • “Business News and Business Cycles,” with Leland Bybee, Bryan Kelly, and Asaf Manela, Journal of Finance 79(5) (2024), 3105-3147.
  • “(Re-)Imag(in)ing Price Trends,” with Jingwen Jiang and Bryan Kelly, Journal of Finance, Vol. 78, Issue 6, (2023), 3193–3249.
  • “When Moving-Average Models Meet High-Frequency Data: Uniform Inference on Volatility,” with Rui Da, Econometrica 89(6) (2021), 2787-2825.
  • “Asset Pricing with Omitted Factors,” with Stefano Giglio, Journal of Political Economy 129(7) (2021), 1947-1990.
  • “Thousands of Alpha Tests,” with Stefano Giglio and Yuan Liao, Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 7, (2021), 3456–3496.
  • “Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning,” with Shihao Gu and Bryan Kelly, Review of Financial Studies 33(5) (2020), 2223-2273.
  • “Taming the Factor Zoo: A Test of New Factors,” with Guanhao Feng and Stefano Giglio, Journal of Finance 75(3) (2020), 1327-1370.
  • “Efficient Estimation of Integrated Volatility Functionals via Multiscale Jackknife,” with Jia Li and Yunxiao Liu, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2019), 156–176.
  • “Principal Component Analysis of High Frequency Data,” with Yacine Aït-Sahalia, Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 114, No. 525, (2019), 287–303.
  • “Generalized Method of Integrated Moments with High Frequency Data,” with Jia Li, Econometrica, Vol. 84, No. 4, (2016), 1613–1633.
  • “Nonparametric Estimation of the Leverage Effect: A Trade-off between Robustness and Efficiency,” with Ilze Kalnina, Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 112, No. 517, (2017), 384–396.
  • “High Frequency Covariance Estimates with Noisy and Asynchronous Financial Data,” with Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Jianqing Fan, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 105, No. 492, (2010), 1504–1517.
Awards and Honours
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association
  • Fellow, Society for Financial Econometrics
  • Fellow, Journal of Econometrics
  • Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize for Distinguished Papers
  • Bates-White Prize for Best Paper at the SoFiE Annual Conference
  • Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award
  • AQR Insight Award, First Prize
  • Poets & Quants Best 40-under-40 Business School Professor
Service to the University/ Community
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Council Member, Society for Financial Econometrics
  • Co-Editor, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Finance, Quantitative Economics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Econometrics