Bei QIN
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Hong Kong Baptist University
Publications:
Social Media and Collective Action in China
(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), Econometrica , Conditional Accepted.
(with Chun-Fang Chiang), Economica , Accepted.
(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), American Economic Review, September 2018
Why Does China Allow Freer Socail Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2017
Another version of this paper is as CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11778
"The Political Economy of Social Media in China"
(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), in CEPR e-book “The Political Economy of Social Media”, 2022, edited by Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante and Andrea Tesei, (in Press)
Wealth, Education, and Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from Rural China
(with Jin Feng and Yangyang Yu), in Gordon Liu, Shufang Zhang and Zongyi Zhang(eds), Investing in Human Capital for Economic Development in China, 2010, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Selected Working Papers:
"Corruption and Asymmetric Sanctions: Theory and Evidence from China" (with Maria Perrotta Berlin, Martin Dufwenberg and Giancarlo Spagnolo), Submitted.
An earlier version of the paper is Leniency, Asymmetric Punishment and Corruption: Evidence from China , CEIS Working paper No. 431, May 7, 2018
"Financial Attention and the Disposition Effect: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market" (with Deng Pan and Donghui Shi), Preparing for Submission.
Selected Work in Progress:
“Administrative Policies and Ideology Exposure: the case of TV Drama industry in China?” (with Steven Pai Xu)
“Inescapable Impact of Carbon Monoxide on Individual Investors” (with Deng Pan and Donghui Shi)
“How does Social Media Drive the Adjudication of Food Safety Cases” (with Chun-Fang Chiang)
“Stock Market, Wealth, and Retirement Decision” (With Deng Pan and Xiaohan Zhang)
“How to Make the Incentive Right: Evidence from Chinese Hospital Reforms” (with Dan Jia and Steven Pai Xu)
“How is Chinese Media used by Politicians to Promote the Career Path of Their Cliques and Themselves” (with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu)
“The Effect of Chinese Microblogs on Drug Quality – the central or local Government Matters ?” (with Tomas Larsson and David Strömberg)
Media Coverage:
By Chris Fleisher, Highlighting our AER paper
E-autocracy: Surveillance and Propaganda in Chinese Social Media
(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), VoxEU, May 8, 2018
Prosperity without Freedom? Media Bias in China
(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), VoxDev, April 11, 2018,
Chinese Crackdown on controversial social media posts less strict than many believe
AEA IN THE NEWS highlights our JEP paper
Chinese Censors' Looser Social Media Grip 'may help flag threats'
by Violet Law, SCMP, Feb. 2017, featured and summarized our JEP paper