I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at East Carolina University.
My research interests include Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental and Resource Economics.
Dr. Qingxin He was in Bergen for the 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, chaired the session "Economic impacts of the energy transition", and presented "CO2 Tax and Coal Combustion Byproduct Effects on Electricity Fuel Switching ". (Thursday, 19/June/2025)
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A-436 Brewster Building
Phone: (252) 737-5528
Fax: (252) 328-6743
Email: heq18@ecu.edu
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Department of Economics
East Carolina University
A-436 Brewster Building
Tenth Street
Greenville, NC 27858
Academic
Research
"The Impact of Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) on Aviation CO2 Emissions", working paper
"Privatization and Service Quality: Empirical Evidence for the Proper Scope of Government" (with Haiyong Liu), under review
"An Assessment of Technical Efficiency in U.S. Aquaculture Production" (with Jonathan Lee), under review
“The “Long COVID” in the U.S. Flight Market and the Impact on Unruly Passengers” (with Jonathan Lee), Revise and Resubmit.
"The Role of Carbon Taxes and Coal Combustion Byproducts on Fuel Switching in U.S. Electric Utilities" (with Jonathan Lee), working paper
“Run-up to a Merger: Pre-Consolidation Pricing by Merging Airlines and Their Rivals” (with Nick Rupp), Review of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.
He, Q. and J. Lee (2024) “Technical Efficiency of SO2 Scrubbers with Byproduct Contracts”, Economics Letters, p.112049.
He, Q. and X. Zheng (2020) “Price Discrimination across Different Ticket Distribution Channels: Evidence from the US-China Flight Market”, China Economic Review, 61.
He, Q. (2016) “The Effect of Competition on Price Discrimination in the International Flight Market between the U.S. and China”, Economics of Transportation, 7, 1-23.
He, Q. and J. Lee (2016) “The Effect of Coal Combustion Byproducts on the Pricing Strategy of Upstream Industries”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 4, 11-24.
He, Q., Z. Madjd-Sadjadi, and J. Lee (2016) “Cost Savings and Deregulation: An Analysis of Fuel Cost Savings in Deregulated Electricity Markets”, Applied Economics Letters, 23(16), 1173-1176.
He, Q. and J. Lee (2014) “Additional Market Incentives for Abatement: An Analysis of Flue-gas Desulfurization By-products”, Resource and Energy Economics, 36(2): 370–393.