Xialu Liu

xialu.liu@sdsu.eduorcid.org/0000-0002-9868-517X

Appointments

Department of Management Information Systems current
Grants Research and Enterprise Writing (GREW) Fellows current

Associate Professor, 2020-Present
Management Information Systems, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, US
Assistant Professor, 2015-2020
Management Information Systems, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US

Ph.D. in Statistics, 2010-2015
Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
M.S. in Economics, 2008-2010
Business Statistics and Econometrics, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, CN
B.S. in Mathematics, 2004-2008
Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN

Profile updated October 8, 2026.

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Abandonment of cross-border acquisitions: The role of target country context

Martina Musteen; Xialu Liu; Dwarka Chakravarty

Journal of World Business, 2025, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 8

Country risk International business enterprises Investments, Foreign Strategic planning

Improving estimation of portfolio risk using new statistical factors

Xialu Liu; John Guerard; Rong Chen; Ruey Tsay

Annals of Operations Research, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1

Finance Financial risk management Risk management Statistics

REVENGE travel: fact or myth?

Xialu Liu; Wenjin Wang

Current Issues in Tourism, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 9

Consumer behavior Motivation research (Marketing) Tourism Vacations

Resurgence in paradise: decoding the patterns of arrivals with different trip purposes in Hawaii’s post-pandemic tourism recovery

Xialu Liu; Kaveh Abhari; Wang, W.; Wenjin Wang

Current Issues in Tourism, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4

COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) Hawaii Sustainable tourism Tourism

Recovery of Tourism in Hawaii After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Arrivals and Trip Purposes

Xialu Liu; Wenjin Wang; Kaveh Abhari

2023, preprint

COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) Hawaii Island tourism Tourism

The COVID‐19 pandemic and residential mobility intentions in the United States: Evidence from Google Trends data

Population, Space and Place, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 38

COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) Pandemics Public health Residential mobility

Identification and estimation of threshold matrix‐variate factor models

Xialu Liu; Elynn Y. Chen

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 17

Econometrics Multivariate analysis Statistics

Estimating change-point latent factor models for high-dimensional time series

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 5

Data mining Machine learning Multivariate analysis Time-series analysis

NTS: An R Package for Nonlinear Time Series Analysis

The R Journal, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1

Data mining Statistics Time-series analysis

Threshold factor models for high-dimensional time series

Journal of Econometrics, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 34

Econometrics Finance Statistics Time-series analysis

Factor models for matrix-valued high-dimensional time series

Journal of Econometrics, 2018, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 176

Dimension reduction (Statistics) Factor analysis Matrices Time-series analysis

Convolutional autoregressive models for functional time series

Journal of Econometrics, 2016, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 28

Artificial intelligence Deep learning (Machine learning) Machine learning Time-series analysis

Regime-switching factor models for high-dimensional time series

Statistica Sinica, 2016, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 23

Econometrics Factor analysis Machine learning Time-series analysis

Functional coefficient seasonal time series models with an application of Hawaii tourism data

Computational Statistics, 2015, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 5

Hawaii Seasonal variations (Economics) Time-series analysis Tourism