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Current Academic Position:

Associate Professor

School of Finance

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Research Interests:

Primary fields: International Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics

Secondary fields: Financial Economics, Economic Growth

Contact Info:

Email: econlai [at] gmail [dot] com


CV (updating now)

Publications

1.     Lai, Jennifer and Paul McNelis, 2024, Financial contagion among the GSIBs and regulatory interventions, accepted by Journal of Financial Stability.

2.     Lai, Jennifer, Xie Jing, Mengqian Ye and Xingjian Yi, 2023 Illegal fundraising and financial availability—The evidence from court cases in China., accepted by Applied Economics Letters.

3.     Chan, Kenneth, Jennifer Lai and Xiaoyi Liang, 2022, Testing the validity of PPP for China: evidence from the Fourier quantile unit root test, Review of International Economics, vol 31(2), 464-92.

4.     Lai Jennifer, Dongxiao Zheng and Jinxing Zhang, 2022, The effect of industrial robots’ adoption on urban income inequality in China, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 30(17), 2238-95.

5.     Lai, Jennifer, Jing Xie, Shiyun Cao and Hao Zhang, 2022, Digital financial inclusion and illegal fundraising in China, Applied economics, vol.54(48), 5575-90.

6.     Ye, Mengqian, Nan Lian and Jennifer Lai, 2022, Domestic migration and the risk of households being defrauded in urban China, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, vol.3, 1-10.

7.     Chan, Kenneth, Jennifer Lai and Tingting Li, 2022, Cultures, genes and savings behavior in China, International Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 80, 134-146.

8.     Lai, Jennifer, Mengqian Ye and Hao Zhang, 2021, Home ownership and life satisfaction of migrants in urban China, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 28(4), 287-293.

9.     Lai, Jennifer, Hongyi Chen and Paul D. McNelis, 2020, Macroeconomic adjustment with managed exchange rates and capital controls: Some lessons from China, Economic Modelling, vol. 91, pages 759-768.

10.  Lai, Jennifer, Isabel K. M. Yan and Xingjian Yi and Hao Zhang, 2020, Digital Financial Inclusion and Consumption Smoothing in China, China and World Economy, vol. 28(1), pages 64-93, January.

11.  Lai, Jennifer and Paul D. McNelis, 2020, Offshore fears and onshore risk: exchange rate pressures and bank volatility contagion in China, Economic and Political Studies, vol. 8(3), pages 374-393, July.

12.  Lai, Jennifer, Jiaying Yao and Hao Zhang, 2020, Siblings effects and housing tenure decisions: evidence from China, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 27(9), pages 714-718, May.

13.  Chan, Kenneth S., Vinh Q.T. Dang and Jennifer Lai, 2018, Capital market integration in ASEAN: A non-stationary panel data analysis, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 46, pages 249-260.

14.  Cai, T., Jennifer. Lai, B. Hazari and V. Mohan, 2018, Kaldorian disaggregation, temporary migration and welfare: Theory and calibration, Pacific Economic Review, 23(2), 193-221.

15.  Li, Tingting, Jennifer Lai and Yong Wang and Dingtao Zhao, 2016, Long-run relationship between inequality and growth in post-reform China: New evidence from dynamic panel model, International Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 41(C), pages 238-252.

16.  Lai Jennifer, Bharat R. Hazari and Vijay Mohan, 2016, Kaldorian Disaggregation, Temporary Migration and Domestic Welfare, Review of Development Economics, vol. 20(2), pages 468-474.

17.  Cai, Tao, Vinh Q. T. Dang and Jennifer Lai, 2016, China's Capital and ‘Hot’ Money Flows: An Empirical Investigation, Pacific Economic Review, vol. 21(3), pages 276-294.

18.  Chan, Kenneth S., Jennifer Lai and Isabel K.M. Yan, 2014, Consumption risk sharing and self-insurance across provinces in China: 1952–2008, China Economic Review, vol. 30, pages 66-85.

19.  Lai, Jennifer, Erin P.K. So and Isabel K.M. Yan, 2014, Intergovernmental fiscal arrangements and provincial consumption risk sharing in China, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, vol. 50(3), pages 45-58.

20.  Lai, Jennifer T. and Paul D. McNelis and Isabel K.M. Yan, 2013, Regional capital mobility in China: Economic reform with limited financial integration, Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 37, pages 493-503.

21.  Chan, Kenneth S., Jennifer Lai and Isabel K.M. Yan, 2013, Is the provincial market segmented in China? Review of Development Economics, vol. 17(3), 430-446.

22.  Chan, Kenneth S., Vinh Q.T. Dang, and Jennifer Lai and Isabel K.M. Yan, 2011, Regional capital mobility in China: 1978–2006, Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 30(7), pages 1506-1515.