Mengqi Wei

Jinhe Center for Economic Research

Xi'an Jiaotong University

No. 28 Xianning West Road

Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

I am a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Quantitative Economics and Finance at the Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU). Previously, I studied in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (pre-college) at Qian Xuesen College and the School of Mathematics and Statistics at XJTU.

Research Interests

AI Exposure Measurement & Market Structure
Empirical Industrial Organization
Macroeconomics & Macro-Finance

news

Sep 15, 2026	Completed macroeconomic research internship at the Macro Market Department of CIB Research.
Sep 01, 2026	Awarded in the PKU Financial AI Agent Competition for the Claim2Value project.
Jun 30, 2026	Completed sophomore year ranked 1st in the Quantitative Economics & Finance cohort (GPA 90.73/100).
Oct 20, 2025	Awarded the National Scholarship by the Ministry of Education of the PRC.

selected publications

Working Paper
Adaptive Adjustment of Higher Education Majors Under LLM Shocks: Theoretical Modeling, Exposure Measurement, and Continuous DID Estimation

Mengqi Wei, Xiaodong Chen, and Xiaoliang Yang

Working Paper, Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2026

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Extends the Acemoglu & Restrepo (2018) task framework to higher education supply. Constructs an occupational LLM exposure crosswalk for 889 undergraduate majors and evaluates enrollment adjustments with a 2015–2024 micro panel of 4.34 million provincial admission records using continuous difference-in-differences and causal forests.
@article{wei2026llm, title = {Adaptive Adjustment of Higher Education Majors Under LLM Shocks: Theoretical Modeling, Exposure Measurement, and Continuous DID Estimation}, author = {Wei, Mengqi and Chen, Xiaodong and Yang, Xiaoliang}, journal = {Working Paper, Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Xi'an Jiaotong University}, year = {2026}, }
Project
Claim2Value: Financial AI Agent for Technical Claim Verification and Dynamic Valuation

Mengqi Wei and Team

PKU Financial AI Agent Competition (Awarded Project), 2026

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An AI agent pipeline designed for embodied AI and humanoid robotics supply chains. Extracts technical claims from disclosures, verifies specifications against industry benchmarks, and maps technical metrics into multi-scenario financial valuation models.
@article{wei2026claim2value, title = {Claim2Value: Financial AI Agent for Technical Claim Verification and Dynamic Valuation}, author = {Wei, Mengqi and Team}, journal = {PKU Financial AI Agent Competition (Awarded Project)}, year = {2026}, }