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