Dr. Jianpo Xue is a Professor at WISE and School of Economics, Xiamen University. Before joining WISE, he worked as an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head of Department of Public Finance at School of Finance, Renmin University of China. He got a Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008 and worked as a Research Associate there for two years. His main research interests are in macroeconomics with the focus on fiscal policy, economic growth, monetary economics, and Chinese economy. His research has been published in the refereed journals as Journal of International Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, etc. He serves as the associate editor for Journal of Macroeconomics, and the China Economic Studies (Chinese).