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PUBLICATIONS

1. Guohua Peng, Xiaoling Zhao, "Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China", China Economic Review, Volume 92, August 2025, 102409.

2. Guohua Peng, "Entry Costs and Regional Productivity Disparity in an Open Economy", Economics Letters, 161, 2017, pp 138-140. (Appendix). Longer working paper version.

3. Guohua Peng, Fan Xia, "The Size Distribution of Exporting and Non-exporting Firms in a Panel of Chinese Provinces", Papers in Regional Science, 95(S1), 2016, pp S71–S85. 

4. "Zipf’s law for Chinese cities: Rolling sample regressions", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 389(18),  2010, pp 3804 -3813.  (Online Appendix:  Results of Hill Estimator for the Rolling Rank Method) 

CHINESE JOURNALS

1. "The Matching of Skills to Tasks、Labor Migration and Chinese Regional Income Disparity", Working Paper Version, Online Appendix, Economic Research Journal (in Chinese), 2015.1, pp 99-110. (English Abstract)

2. "The Empirical Study on Dual Margin and Core Products of Chinese Multi-product Exporters"(with Fan XIA), the Journal of World Economy (in Chinese), 2013.2, pp 42-63. (English Abstract)

3. “A Review of Endogenous Growth Theory”, Forward Position in Economics (in Chinese), 2009.2-3, pp94-99. (English Abstract)        Reprinted in Theoretic Economics, 2009(6), Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China.

4.   “Regional Income Convergence Clubs among Chinese Provinces”, the Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics (in Chinese), 2008.12, pp49-57.   (English Abstract)

5. “A Comparison between Two Growth Accounting Methods——What Determines the Regional Disparity in China”, South China Journal of Economics (in Chinese), 2008.7, pp14-22. (English Abstract)

6.  “The Empirical Research on Productivity in Chinese Provinces Using Bilateral Gravity Model of International Trade”, Economic Research Journal (in Chinese), 2007.8, pp123-132. (English Abstract)        Reprinted in Foreign Economy, International Trade, 2007(12), Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China.

7. “Total Factor Productivity and Composition of Human Capital in Chinese Provinces”, China Industrial Economy (in Chinese), 2007.2, pp 52-59. (English Abstract)

8. “The Research on Long-Run Income Convergence in the Chinese Provinces”, Management World (in Chinese), 2006.9, pp 53-58. (English Abstract)

9.  “The Disparity of Income, TFP and the Convergence Hypothesis in Chinese Provinces”, Economic Research Journal (in Chinese), 2005.9, pp19-29. (English Abstract)

10.  “The Sources of Chinese Regional Growth and Divergence”, the Journal of World Economy (in Chinese), 2005.9, pp 42-50. (English Abstract)   

BOOK (in Chinese):  

        Total Factor Productivity and Regional Disparity in China, Economic Science Press, Beijing, 2009. (The revisions of some chapters were published in Journals above.)

HONORS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71273116), 2014 - 2016;

2. Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry of China, 2013;

3. New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-10-0108), 2010-2012;

4. The Third Class Prize of Social Science in Guangdong Province (2011);

5. The Second Class Prize of the Social Science of Higher Education, State Education Ministry (2009)

6. National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant No.08CJL018, from 2008.6 to 2010.12;

7. Award of the 5th Guangdong Province Thousand Hundred Ten Project, from 2008.11-2012.11;

8. The Third Class Prize of the 15th An Zijie International Economics Research (2008);

9. The First Class Prize of Social Science in Guangdong Province (2007);

TEACHING

        Microeconomics, Macroeconomics (undergraduate)

        Intermediate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics (graduate)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. The Singapore Economic Review Conferences 2013, Singapore, August, 2013.

2. The WEA (Western Economic Association) 88th Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, June, 2013.

3. The 3rd International Conference on “Regional Cooperation and Innovation in Asia”, Busan, Korea, 2008;

4. The 3rd China Economics Forum and Project LINK spring meeting, Beijing, China, 2007;

5. The 7th China Economics Annual Conference, Shenzhen, China, 2007;

6. The 5th China Economics Annual Conference, Xiamen, China, 2005

REFEREE

        Journal of International Economics, Physica A, Annals of Regional Science