Rui Xu

Clustering

This is the first book to take a truly comprehensive look at clustering. It begins with an introduction to cluster analysis and goes on to explore: pr...

What is Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion Across Countries?

Using a broad set of macroeconomic country characteristics to supplement a new and comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries, we identify st...

Drivers of Financial Access: the Role of Macroprudential Policies

This study analyzes the drivers of the use of formal vs. informal financial services in emerging and developing countries using the 2017 Global FINDEX...

Mending the Crystal Ball: Enhanced Inflation Forecasts with Machine Learning

Forecasting inflation has become a major challenge for central banks since 2020, due to supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty post-pandemi...

Exiting From Fragility in sub-Saharan Africa

The Role of Fiscal Policies and Fiscal Institutions

This paper studies the role of fiscal policies and institutions in building resilience in sub-Saharan African countries during 1990-2013, with specifi...

Does Import Competition Induce R&D Reallocation? Evidence from the U.S.

We analyze the impact of rising import competition from China on U.S. innovative activities. Using Compustat data, we find that import competition ind...

Building Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa's Fragile States

This paper analyzes the persistence of fragility in some sub-Saharan African states and the multiple dimensions of state weakness that are simultaneou...

A New Growth Engine for Japan

Women in STEM Fields; Japan

Despite recent improvements in female labor force participation, women remain underrepresented in STEM fields in Japan. Given the close link between S...

Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis Using Machine Learning and Neural Networks

"As an important experimental technology, DNA microarray provides an effective way to measure the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes simu...

Creating with Roots

Contemporary Chinese National Folk Dance Choreography

Navigating tradition and innovation in Chinese national folk dance, available in English for the first time...