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Han Xu is a Predoctoral Research Professional on MFR director Lars Peter Hansen’s research team, assisting with topics including climate economics, macro finance and asset pricing. Han became interested in macroeconomics and asset pricing after his gap-year internship at Merrill Lynch assisting industry macroeconomists to study short-term economic fluctuations. Han graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he majored in Finance and minored in Math.

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