Contact
Mailing address: Room 915, WLB, 34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Phone: (+852) 5917-4160; (+86) 178-1168-0490
Email: sudonghua.econ@gmail.com
Research interests
Macroeconomics (labor, trade, misallocations); Finance (information).
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, '21-
Supervisors: Fei Zhou (co-chair), Kim-Sau Chung (chair), Liyan Yang, Hongliang Zhang.
M.A. in Economics (along w/ Ph.D.), Temple University, PA, USA, '20.
Reference: Catherine Maclean (GMU), Doug Webber (FRB), Brant Callaway (UGA).
MSc in Economics (Finance), The University of Edinburgh, UK, '15.
Undergraduate Study in Finance, Shandong University, China, '14.
Academic Visiting
Visiting scholar, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, ON, Canada, '23.
Employment/Service
Research Postgraduate Representative, Business School Board, HKBU, '21-'23.
Research Assistant, HKBU, '21,'23.
Summer Instructor, Temple University, '19.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Temple University, '17-'20.
Graduate Trainee of the Head Office, Ping An Bank Co. Ltd., '16-'17.
✿ Empirical
1) Business Cycles Adaptations.
❁ Empirical and Theory
2) Openness and Volatility in Global Production Network, with Fei Zhou.
3) Home Production, Skill Heterogeneity and the Labor Wedge.
4) Where to Go? The Inefficiency of the Created in China.
❀ Pure Theory
5) On the Importance of Information Quality and Returns.
6) Myopia, Anchoring and Cognitive Information Sharing.
Research Assistant
Section 4.3-4.4 of the "Tutoring Efficacy, Household Substitution, and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from an After-School Tutoring Program in Rural China", 2024, International Economic Review.
Teaching Experience
Temple University
ECON 0858 (US GenEd): The American Economy (TA for a very poor instructor): '17 Fall, '18 Spring, '18 Fall, '19 Spring, '19 Fall, '20 Spring.
Student Feedback Form: my average score is 3.8 vs. the Department (3.8) and University (4.1).
ECON 0858 (US GenEd): The American Economy (single instructor): '19 Summer II.
Student Feedback Form: my average score is 4.5 leading the Department (4.1) and University (4.3).
Conferences/Workshops
'24: JIE Summer School and Poster Session, University of Oxford; ACES Summer School, CUHK; STEG Virtual Course on "Data in Macro Development".
'23: NBER Conference on the Chinese Economy, CUHK-Shenzhen; EEA-ESEM, UPF; AMES, Tsinghua, discussant: Ronaldo Carpio; EALE, Charles University; Baptist-NTU-NYU(Shanghai)-Sinica-SMU Workshop on Macroeconomics*, discussant: Sukjoon Lee; Ph.D. Research Competition, SDU; Young Chang'an Scholars Forum, CHD.
'22: HKBU ECON-Finance Workshop, HKBU; Chinese Finance Annual Meeting (CFAM), SJTU, discussant: Weicheng Min; Peikang Chang China Economics Graduate Student Conference, HUST.
'21: Ph.D. Research Competition, SDU; Conference on Markets and Economies with Information Frictions.
Miscellaneous: '20 UEA Online Spatial & Urban Seminar & the Lectures in Urban Economics; '19 Temple University Workshop: Recent Advances in Economic Development; 2019 Temple Macro Reading Group; '18 ASSA in Philadelphia; '15 SGPE Residential Conference.
Notes: * present by co-author.
Discussion
Learning, Price Discovery, and Macroeconomic Announcements, by Haozhe Han, Grace Xing Hu, Calvin Dun Jia.
Awards
Financial aid for attending JIE summer school (JIE), '24.
The First-class Award of PhD Research Competition (SDU), '21, '22.
HKBU Postgraduate Research Studentship (HKBU), '21-'25.
TUGSA's International Grad Student Fundraiser Prize (Temple), '20.
Summer Teaching Grant (Temple), '19.
Departmental Ph.D. Teaching Assistantship (Temple), '17-'20.
Principal's Career Development Scholarship (UofEdinburgh), '15.
First-class scholarship (SDU).
Languages
Linguistic: Mandarine (Native), English (Fluent), Cantonese (Basic).
Computing: R, Stata, Matlab, Mathematica.
Personal
Chinese citizen;
Warm Family: Proud son of Marianne D. Ma and Ping Hua; Married to Shitong Liu👩❤️👨; Unborn son Jeff and daughter Jess👶; Adopted our Shiba Inu Una🐶.