Feicheng Wang
About me
Hi, welcome to my website. I am an applied economist with a focus on international economics, labour, and development economics. I am currently an Assistant Professor (with tenure) at the Department of Global Economics and Management (GEM), University of Groningen. I serve as the coordinator for the double degree master programme between the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen and the School of Economics, Fudan University.
I studied at the University of Nottingham (China and the UK campuses) and obtained my PhD in International Economics in 2017. Before that, I completed the postgraduate programme at Xiamen University and did my undergraduate study at Beijing Institute of Technology, both in Economics.
From 2017 to 2022, I worked as a postdoc at the Chair of International Economic Policy (Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos), University of Göttingen. Prior to that, I was a teaching fellow at Nottingham University Business School China from 2016 to 2017.
I am a research affiliate of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany (from October 2021), a research fellow of the FEB Research Institute (FEBRI) at the University of Groningen (from December 2022), and a GLO (Global Labor Organization) fellow from April 2023. From 2020 to 2022, I was a research member (board member from January to August 2022) of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) at the University of Göttingen.
I work on research projects in the fields of international economics, labour, and development economics. My primary research interest is to explore the labour market effects of globalisation, aiming to understand how individual workers, firms, and local markets adjust to trade and FDI-induced changes. Recently I've extended this research interest beyond labour market outcomes and investigated how trade affects environment and health outcomes. My second line of research focuses on the political economy of China's trade and development aid, investigating the effects of international and domestic political-economic factors on trade and development aid at the subnational and firm levels. I also work on projects that evaluate how policy shocks affect trade and international capital flows.
My Chinese name is 王飞成 (WANG Feicheng). 飞 (Fei) means flying, and 成 (Cheng) means success. It represents my parents' best wishes.
What is new?
April 2024: My joint work with Kerstin Unfried on the environmental effects of plastic waste imports in China has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
March 2024: Our newly published Kiel working paper (with Vera Z. Eichenauer) presents the first cross-country analysis of the economic effects of the new generation of investment screening, introduced in an increasing number of countries and sectors due to national security concerns. Our results reveal that investment screening reduced the number of cross-border investment deals by 11.7 to 16.0% within the EU and OECD.
November 2023: In a new working paper with Ning Meng, we provide the first comprehensive empirical analysis of how firms adjust their exports across markets in response to negative trade policy shocks induced by anti-dumping investigations: "Navigating Trade Policy Shocks: How Firms Reallocate Exports in Third Markets".
New database of Chinese global aid exports is now available online: Chinese Aid Exports Database. Media coverage and press release: Bloomberg, PNGNet, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and others. Related working paper: "Tracking Chinese Aid through China Customs: Darlings and Orphans after the Covid-19 Outbreak" (with Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian Schmidt, and Felix Turbanisch).
Links
My Uni Groningen webpage: www.rug.nl/staff/f.wang/
My Uni Göttingen webpage (not updated): www.uni-goettingen.de/de/570296.html
My SSRN webpage: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2970814
My Google Scholar webpage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YHVjEWoAAAAJ&hl=en