Zhoudan Xie
Financial Economist at Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolZhoudan Xie is a financial economist and PhD candidate in Economics at George Washington University with eight years of applied research experience at the intersection of macroeconomics, regulation, and innovation. He combines rigorous econometric modeling with modern NLP on large text corpora—patents, regulatory texts, and rulemaking data—to quantify how regulation shapes firm dynamics and aggregate growth. As a senior policy analyst at GW’s Regulatory Studies Center and now a financial economist at the PCAOB, he has produced peer-reviewed and policy-oriented work that informs benefit-cost analysis and bureaucratic behavior. Comfortable with Python, R, Stata, and automated data pipelines, he also designs reproducible databases and public-facing dashboards to scale research impact. Fluent in Chinese and experienced in international policy settings, he brings a rare blend of technical, regulatory, and cross-cultural insight to empirical economic questions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Japanese and International Trade, 3.9/5.0, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Japanese and International Trade, 3.9/5.0 at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsMaster's degree, Environmental Governance, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Environmental Governance, 4.0/4.0 at 慶応義塾大学 / Keio University
Chinese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (4)
data-repository6
risk-assessment6
data-analytics3
singer3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zhoudanxie/analyzing-public-comments
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:68 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
regulatorystudies/Reg-Stats
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Charts and data for the @regulatorystudies Reg Stats page
Contributions:53 reviews, 72 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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