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Senior Research Scholar, SCCEI, Stanford University
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Senior Research Scholar, SCCEI, Stanford University
Areas of Expertise: China’s Economy, Contract Theory, Development Economics, Economic Reform, Law and Economics, Law and Finance, Political Economics, Transition Economics, Digital Economy (particularly AI)
Biography
Chenggang Xu is a political economist on China’s communist regime. He is a Senior Research Scholar at SCCEI, Stanford University and a Board Member of the Ronald Coase Institute. Before retiring from the University of Hong Kong, he was the Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics there, a Special-Term Professor at Tsinghua University, and a World-Class University Professor at Seoul National University. He served as the president of Asian Law and Economics and also as a consultant for the World Bank and the IMF. He has frequently appeared in the media to analyze or comment on China’s political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1991. He was a recipient of the 2013 Sun Yefang Prize and the first recipient of the Chinese Economics Prize (2016).
Forthcoming Books
Xu, Chenggang. Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism. Cambridge University Press (English version), to be published in 2023.
Xu, Chenggang. Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism. Taiwan University Press (Chinese Version), to be published in 2023.
Xu Chenggang's Collected Works, Volumes 2-5, forthcoming.
Degrees
Ph.D. (Economics), Harvard University, 1991
MSc (Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1982
Full-time Academic Positions
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, 2022–
Professor of Economics, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), 2016-2020
Chung Hon-Dak (Quoin) Professor in Economic Development and Professor of Economics, University of Hong Kong, 2009-2016
Reader, Senior Lecturer (tenured), and Lecturer at London School of Economics, 1991-2009
Research Associate, Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 1982-1984
Visiting/Special Program and Part-time Academic Positions
Honorary Professor, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, 2016–
Visiting Professor, Finance Department, Imperial College London, 2021–2023
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution of Stanford University, 2021-2022
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Maison des Sciences de I’homme, Paris, 2019
Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest, 2019-2020
Special-term Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 2002-2017
Polonsky Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2016-2017
"World-Class University Professor", Seoul National University, 2009-2013
Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, 2008-2009
Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006-2008
Senior research fellow, Shanghai Institute for Law and Economics, 2004-
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 2002
Research fellow, China Center for Financial Research (Tsinghua University), 2002-
Fellow, Chinese Economic Society (US), 2000-
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 1999–
Research Fellow, National Center for Economic Research (Tsinghua University), 1996-
Faculty Research Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1998-1999
Davidson Research Institute Fellow, University of Michigan, 1997-
Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, 1998, 1999, 2000
Faculty Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University, 1993-2000