Affiliation: Senior Fellow and Policy Advisor, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

E-mail: zhang-hong-yong[at]rieti.go.jp

Address: 11th floor, Annex, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), 1-3-1, Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8901 JAPAN

Research Interests: International Trade and Investment, Chinese Economy 

Curriculum Vita: January 2025 (PDF) 

Selected Publications:

• Measuring political leader's geopolitical risk perceptions, 

International Economics, October 2025, 183: 100631. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (Aoyama Gakuin) Open access

• The impact of export controls on international trade: Evidence from the Japan-Korea trade dispute in the semiconductor industry, 

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, December 2024, 74: 101336. with Ryo Makioka (Hokkaido U)

• Uncertainty, imperfect information, and expectation formation over the firm’s life cycle,

Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2023, 140: 60-77. with Cheng Chen (Clemson U), Tatsuro Senga (Keio U), and Chang Sun (HKU) Open access

previously circulated as "Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Learning in the International Market"

• Learning and information transmission within multinational corporations,

European Economic Review, April 2022, 143: 104016. with Cheng Chen (Clemson U) and Chang Sun (HKU) Open access