Curriculum Vitae

Boqun Wang, Ph.D., FRM

Education:

  • Aug.2010-Aug.2016, Ph.D. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

  • Aug.2010-May.2013, M.A. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University

  • Aug.2008-Oct.2010, M.Phil. in Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

  • Sep.2004-July.2008, B.A. in Finance in School of Economics, Beijing University

  • Sep.2005-July.2008, B.S. in Applied Mathematics in School of Mathematical Science, Beijing University

Research & Teaching Interest:

Primary: International Finance, Development Economics, Economic Systems.

Secondary: Labor economics, Economics History, Financial Economics.

Published Papers:

  • "Intergovernmental Communication Under Decentralization" (with Shiyu Bo, Liuchun Deng, and Yufeng Sun ), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 184 (2021) pp. 606–652.

  • "Regional Capital Flows and Economic Regimes: Evidence from China", (with Liuchun Deng), Economics Letters, April, 2016 (141), pp. 80–-83.

  • "Time-varying Volatility in the Chinese Economy: A Regional Perspective," (with Qing He, Ning Zhang and Jack W. Hou), Papers in Regional Science, June, 2014 (93), pp. 249--268.

MPhil Thesis:

"The Decline of Output Volatility in China: From Central Planning to Economic Transition", supervised by Professor Dennis Tao Yang (Best Thesis Reward CUHK Econ Dept 2010)

Conference and Seminar Presentations:

  • "A Tale of Two Decentralizations: Volatility and Economic Regimes", Tokyo Conference on Economics of Institutions and Organizations (Apr 2019), PEDD 2019, 2019 ASSA Annual Meetings, International Workshop on Economic Analysis of Institutions at Xiamen University, International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook University, SCERI-NSD Conference, 2018 ASSET Annual Meeting, 2018 NSE Winter Meeting, The 2018 CES North America Conference (Apr 2018), 2017 Georgetown Center for Economic Research biennial conference (Jun 2017), 2017 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Jun 2017), 2017 China Meeting of the Econometric Society (Jun 2017), 2017 Symposium on Development and Institutional Economics in Henan University (Jul 2017).

  • "Consumption Habit, Growth Acceleration, and Capital Flows," 2016 CES North America Conference (Apr 2016), Research Institute for Global Value Chains (Jan 2016), EconCon 2015 (Aug 2015), 2015 Western Economic Association International Conference (Jul 2015).

  • "Volatility and Economic Systems: Evidence from a Large Transitional Economy," (with Dennis Tao Yang) 2015 CES North America Conference (Conference Travel Grant, Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Mar 2015), Renmin University of China (Jan 2015), 2014 Annual Meeting of ASSA (Jan 2014).

  • "Growth Acceleration and High Saving," 2013 Western Economic Association International Conference, (GRO Travel Grant, Jun 2013).

  • "The Decline of Output Volatility in China: From Central Planning to Economic Transition," The 7th Annual Conference of the Consortium for Western China Development Studies (Sponsored by the Chinese Economists Society, Jul 2010).

Academic & Working Experience:

  • Sep.2018-Present, Business Analysis Advisor, Overall Risk Management Expert, Alibaba

  • Aug.2016-Aug.2018, Assistant Vice President/Economist, Bank of America

  • Sep.2015-Jul.2016, Instructional Coach at Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

  • Sep.2013-May.2015, Teaching Assistant for Elements of Macro, Evolution, and Economics, Economic Development and the Art and Science of Economic Forecasting at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

  • Jun.2014-Aug.2014, Summer Intern/Economist at International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Jan.2014, Visiting Scholar at International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Sep.2011-May.2013, Computer Liaison at Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

  • Aug.2011-Jan.2012, Research Assistant to Prof. Christopher Carroll

  • Jun.2011-Aug.2011, Visiting Scholar at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

  • Sep.2008-May.2010, Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Corporate Finance, Methods of economic Statistics, Money and Banking and Intermediate Macroeconomics at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

  • Jun.2009-Aug.2010, Research Assistant to Prof. Yang, Dennis Tao

  • Oct.2008-Jan.2009, Research Assistant to Prof. Hsu, Wen Tai

Honors & Scholarship:

  • Overseas High-Caliber Personnel, Human Resources and Social Security Administration of Shenzhen Municipality (2019~2024)

  • Teaching Assistantship, Johns Hopkins University (2012~2015)

  • Gregory Chow Best Paper Award (2015)

  • Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (2011~2012)

  • Best Thesis Reward in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2010)

  • Postgraduate Studentships in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2008~2010)

  • Freshmen Scholarship in Beijing University (Sep.2004)

Extracurricular Activities & Experience:

  • Sep.2012-Jan.2015, Organizer of the Macro Reading Group in Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

  • Sep.2012-Jun.2014, Research chair of the Graduate Representative Organization (GRO)

  • Jan.2009-Jan.2010, President of the Postgraduate Student Association of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUPSA)

  • Sep.2006-Sep.2007, Cofounder of a student organization about Social Entrepreneur in Beijing University

  • Mar.2005-Sep.2006, Captain of football team of School of Economics, Beijing University


Certification & Skills:

SQL, Stata, Mathematica, Matlab, Eviews, R, National Computer Rank Examination Grade 2 Language Visual BASIC & C

Hobbies & Interests:

Digital Games, Tennis, Soccer, Badminton


Last edited 04/15/2021