PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS

    Helu Jiang, 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

    Growing Apart: Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China (with Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts)  [PDF] R&R at the Journal of Development Economics

Media Coverage: VoxChina

    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]

WORK IN PROGRESS:

   The Intangible Borrowing Constraint of Entrepreneurship

GRANTS

    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"