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Sara Hsu
Dr. Sara Hsu is an expert in Chinese fintech, economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking. She is the author of “China’s Fintech Explosion.”
Sara Hsu is a Clinical Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Prior to that, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Dr. Hsu specializes in Chinese supply chains, fintech, economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking. She has published one of the only English-language books on the topic of Chinese fintech, “China’s Fintech Explosion,” and informal finance, “Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives,” as well as one of the only Chinese-language books on Chinese shadow banking. She has also published a number of articles and books on the topics of sustainable development, financial crises, and trade.
Sara Hsu earned her Ph.D. from the University of Utah, her MBA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and her BA from Wellesley College.
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April 21, 2014
Are Claims of Currency Manipulation Just China Bashing?
By Sara Hsu
The argument that China is manipulating its currency needs more analysis, not rhetoric.
April 16, 2014
China’s Urbanization Plan—Sustainable Development?
By Sara Hsu
The government plans to increase the rate of urbanization. Will it be sustainable?
April 03, 2014
How Much Bad Debt Can China Absorb?
By Sara Hsu
The numbers suggest that there are limits to the non-performing debt China’s government can handle.
March 28, 2014
Tracking China’s Hot Money Flows Through Commodities
By Sara Hsu
The issue of misinvoicing of exports and imports can be tracked for commodities.
March 24, 2014
China’s Slowing Fixed Asset Investment
By Sara Hsu
The slowdown will have repercussions for a number of other sectors. Can Beijing find a new source of growth?
March 19, 2014
PBOC Policies Under the Xi-Li Administration
By Sara Hsu
A look back over the policy decisions of the past year is revealing.
March 12, 2014
China’s Interest Rate Liberalization Plans
By Sara Hsu
The central bank announcement points to an important institutional change.
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