Research Interest: Macroeconometrics 

Keywords: Economic Convergence, Government Spending, Economic Geography,  Panel Time-Series, Applied Econometrics 

Communities: Econometric Society, SETA, IAAE, Chinese Economists Society, Regional, Urban and Spatial Economics in China

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Forthcoming Presentations:

• 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC 2025), Seoul

PhD supervision:

• Wei Liu (Sep 2024 - ongoing) with Eric Opoku; robot adoption and export quality; 

• Xielin Chen (Sep 2022 - ongoing) with Hang Zhou and Zhangfan Cao; Sentiment and Mutual Funds' Performance

Completion: 

• Xiaoyi Luo (Sep 2021 - July 2025) with Xiaoquan Liu; the Pricing of Futures Contracts in China

Previous Presentations:

• Econometric Society Australasia Meeting (Dec 4 - 6th, 2024), Monash University, Melbourne

• Fudan University, School of Management (Sep 2024), Shanghai

• Digital Finance, Fintech, and Shadow Banking — workshop, Ningbo, Sep 19-20 (Thurs and Fri), 2024

• World Bank Group Office, Kuala Lumpur (Aug 24)  

• 2024 Chinese Economists Society (CES) Annual Conference (July 5 - 7th, 2024), Hangzhou

• 11th International Workshop on Regional, Urban and Spatial Economics in China (June 14-15th, 2024), Nanjing

• Solbridge International School of Business (May 22nd, 2024), Daejeon, South Korea

• The Kuala Lumpur Half-Baked Seminar Series (May 7th, 2024), World Bank Group Office Malaysia, Sasana Kijang

• FAE lunchtime seminar (March 28th, 2024), Nottingham Ningbo

• 9th Workshop of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society (WAMS), Asia School of Business, KL (Dec 6th - 8th, 2023)

• Convergence and Determinants of Growth and Productivity, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Sep 27-28, 2023)

• Xiamen University (Sep 13th - 15th, 2023)

• Asia School of Business, KL (July - Aug, 2023)

• 17th Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications (SETA), Singapore Management University (July 7th - 8th, 2023)

• Economics seminar (21st June, 2023), Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University

• Birkbeck, University of London (June 5-16, 2023), London

• 10th Conference on Asia and Pacific Economies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (May 25th - 26th, 2023)

• Chinese Economists Society 2023 North America Conference (March 31st - April 2nd, 2023)

• NUBS Tri-Campus Conference 2023 (March 9th, 2023), University of Nottingham

• South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre (March 1st, 2023)

• American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans (Jan 6-8th, 2023) 

• The 9th International Conference on The Chinese Economy: Past, Present and Future (Dec 17th, 2022), Tsinghua University

• Economics seminar, Bryant Zhuhai University (Nov 11th, 2022)

• Xiangjiang River Forum for Young Scholars, Hunan University (Aug 20th, 2022)

• 2022 Chinese Economists Society (CES) Annual Conference (June 25th, 2022)

• Economics seminar (23rd March, 2022), Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University

• NUBS Tri-Campus Conference 2022 (13th Jan, 2022), University of Nottingham

• The 8th International Conference on The Chinese Economy: Past, Present and Future (December 18th, 2021), Tsinghua University

• International Young Finance Scholars Conference (July 12th - 13th, 2021), Peking University HSBC Business School UK

• 2021 Chinese Economists Society (CES) Annual Conference (June 19th - 20th, 2021)

• Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 11th June 2021

• International Conference on Recent Development in New Structural Economics and Finance (22nd - 23rd May 2021), University of Nottingham Ningbo China

• Internal Seminar in Economics, 31st March 2021, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

• Cardiff China Shadow Bank Workshop, 18th-19th Feb 2021, Cardiff University

• World Bank Development Research Seminar Series in Kuala Lumpur, 6th Feb 2020

• Nottingham School of Economics Malaysia Seminar Series, 19th Feb 2020

• South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre, Kuala Lumpur, 24th Feb 2020

• IAAE Annual Conference, Nicosia Cyprus, 27th June 2019

• CREDIT Development Seminar, Nottingham, 20th June 2019

• Nottingham School of Economics Malaysia Seminar Series, 27th Feb 2019

• Nottingham School of Economics Malaysia Research Workshop, 7th Nov 2018

• International Symposium on Forecasting, Cairns Australia, June 2017

• 4th "Continuing Education in Macroeconometrics" Workshop, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 7th - 8th Dec 2016

Miscellanea:

• “ Modelling the sustainability of public sector debt and net foreign asset positions” Ph.D. Dissertation from 2016