Professor
School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London
Office: +44 20 7882 8049
Email: yu.zheng [at] qmul [dot] ac [dot] uk
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (Macroeconomics and Growth)
CURRICULUM VITAE [PDF]
PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS
Attanasio, Orazio, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts and Yu Zheng. "Growing Apart: Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China" [PDF] Accepted, Journal of Development Economics
Media Coverage: VoxChina
Jiang, Helu, Yu Zheng and Lijun Zhu. 2024. "Entry Barriers and Growth: The Role of Endogenous Market Structure" [PDF], International Economic Review. Link to article (Open Access)
Piazza, Roberto and Yu Zheng. 2023. "Innovate to Lead or Innovate to Prevail: When do Monopolistic Rents Induce Growth?" Economic Theory. Link to article (Open Access)
Koh, Dongya and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis and Yu Zheng. 2020. "Labor Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital" [PDF] [Online Appendix] Econometrica, 88(6): pp. 2609-2628.
Media Coverage: World Economic Forum, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Non-Economics: Baker (2016) in Harvard Law Review Forum
Wang, Bin and Yu Zheng. 2020. "A Model of Tournament Incentives with Corruption," Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(1) pp. 182-197. [PDF] [Online Appendix]
Mommaerts, Corina, Syed Hassan Raza and Yu Zheng. 2020. "The Economic Consequences of Hospitalizations for Older Workers across Countries," Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol 16, 100213. [PDF] [Online Appendix]
Zheng, Yu. 2019. "The Role of Education Signaling in Explaining the Growth of College Wage Premium," Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23(3) pp. 1247-1286. [PDF]
Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Raül and Yu Zheng. 2018. "The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989 - 2009," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 10(4), pp 1-36. (Lead Article) [PDF] [Online Appendix]
Media Coverage: VoxChina
REVISE-AND-RESUBMIT
Using Subjective Expectations Data to Allow for Unobserved Heterogeneity in Hotz-Miller Estimation Strategies (with Juan Pantano) [PDF] at Quantitative Economics
WORKING PAPERS
The Economic Value of Breaking Bad Misbehavior, School and the Labor Market (with Nick Papageorge and Victor Ronda) [PDF][Online Appendix]
Media Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Brookings, Frankfurter Allgemeiner Sonntagszeitung, VoxEU
Unequal Transition: The Widening Wealth Gap Amidst China's Rapid Growth (with Yangtian Jiang and Lijun Zhu) [PDF] [CEPR Discussion Paper]
Media Coverage: VoxChina
Why is Food Consumption Inequality Underestimated? A Story of Vices and Children (with Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis) [PDF] [Appendix]
Evaluating Character Skills in Schools (with Victor Ronda and Tanja Florenthal)
WORK IN PROGRESS:
The Intangible Borrowing Constraint of Entrepreneurship
Insurance in Extended Family Networks (with Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, and Corina Mommaerts)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2024-2027
Leverhulme International Fellowship, Aug-Dec 2024
PI, BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, 2021.
PI, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018 (declined).
PI, Early Career Scheme Grant, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2013.
PI, Strategic Research Grant, City University of Hong Kong, 2013, 2017.
PI, Start-Up Grant, City University of Hong Kong, 2012.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Associate Editor, Economic Modelling, 2020-
Associate Editor, Research in Economics, 2018-
REFEREEING
Review of Economic Studies, Journal of European Economic Association, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Growth, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economica, Canadian Journal of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economic Letters, Economic Modelling, Review of International Economics, Food Policy, Pacific Economic Review, Singapore Economic Review, Frontiers of Economics in China, Contemporary Economic Policy, China Journal of Economics.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZED:
2019: 1st QMUL-SUFE Economics Workshop: "Growth and Development in Uncertain Times"
TBA: 2nd QMUL-SUFE Economics Workshop: "New Micro Data and Econometric Techniques"