Employment/Service

• Postdoc at Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Fudan University, Nov. '25– 

• Research Postgraduate Representative, Business School Board, HKBU, '21–'23.

• Research Assistant for Hongliang Zhang, HKBU, '21.

• Summer Instructor, Temple University, '19.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Temple University, '17–'20.

• Graduate Trainee, Ping An Bank Co. Ltd., '16–'17.

Fields

• Macroeconomics; Behavioral Finance; Chinese Economy. 

Education

PhD in Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, '21-'25

• Dissertation: Three Essays on Macro Labor. Supervisors: Fei Zhou, Kim-Sau Chung, Hongliang Zhang.

MA in Economics, Temple University, PA, USA, '17-'20. 

MSc in Economics (Finance), The University of Edinburgh, UK, '14-'15.

Undergraduate study in Finance, Shandong University, China, '10-'14.

Academic Visiting

• Smith School of Business, Queen's University, ON, Canada, May-Aug. '23.

Publications

1. Place-based Policies Develop Digital Enterprises: Evidence from Digital Parks, Empirical Economics, 2025, 02839-5, with Xinju He, Lanxin Liu, Hu Fu, Chuanjiang Yu.

2. Brand Capital and Rent Sharing: Evidence from Firm-Level Data, Economics Letters, 2025, 112473.

•  MediaRadar-SEC Crosswalks; Online Appendix.

Working Papers

1.  (JMP) Home Production, Skill Heterogeneity and the Labor Wedge. 

2.  On the Importance of Information Quality and Returns. 

3.  Limits to Skill-based Countercyclical Adaptation in Business Cycles. 

• Eariler circulated title: Limits to Adaptation in Business Cycles: Consumption Volatility versus Smoothing.                  

4.  Myopia, Anchoring and Cognitive Information Sharing.  

5.  Openness and Volatility in Global Production Network, with Fei Zhou. 

6.  The Rise and Fall of Energy Efficiency after Establishing the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, with Xinju He, Y. Lin, L. Zhang. (Under Review)

7. Ownership, Location, and China’s Structural Efficiency Dynamics in Banking, with Xinju He. (Under Review)

8. Collaborative Competition in China's Environmental Governance: Evidence from the River Chef System, wiht Xinju He.

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): '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/Seminars         

• '25: HenU/INFER Workshop on Applied Macro, Kaifeng; Data Economy Summer School with Isaac Baley and Laura Veldkamp; RES Annual Conference Speed Session & Poster Session, University of Birmingham, Birmingham; PEJ Annual Meeting,  Nova SBE, Carcavelos, Lisbon; CES China Annual Conference, SYSU, Guangzhou; City University of Macau*, Macau. 

• '24: AASLE, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; IEA Lecture Series Consequences of Globalization; SAIF-CAFR Financial Research Summer Camp, STJU, Shanghai; JIE Summer School and Poster Session, University of Oxford, Oxford; ACES Summer School, CUHK, Hong Kong; STEG Virtual Course on "Data in Macro Development"; Ph.D. Research Competition, SDU, Jinan.

• '23: EEA-ESEM, UPF, Barcelona; AMES, Tsinghua, Beijing; EALE, Charles University, Prague; Baptist-NTU-NYU(Shanghai)-Sinica-SMU Workshop on Macroeconomics*; Ph.D. Research Competition, SDU, Jinan.

• '22:  HKBU ECON-Finance Workshop; 19th Chinese Finance Annual Meeting (CFAM), SJTU, Shanghai; 8th Peikang Chang China Economics Graduate Student Conference, HUST, Wuhan.

• '21: Ph.D. Research Competition, SDU, Jinan.

• Miscellaneous: '20 UEA Online Spatial & Urban Seminar & the Lectures in Urban Economics; '19 Temple University Workshop: Recent Advances in Economic Development, Philadelphia; Temple Macro Reading Group, Philadelphia; '18 ASSA in Philadelphia; '15 SGPE Residential Conference, Crieff. 

Notes: * present by co-author.

Discussion

• Learning, Price Discovery, and Macroeconomic Announcements, by Haozhe Han, Grace Xing Hu, Calvin Dun Jia.

Awards

• RES PhD Scholar's Fund, '25.

• Financial aid for attending JIE summer school (JIE), '24. 

• The First-class Award of China Economics Graduate Student Conference (Peikang Chang Research Foundation of Development Economics), '22. 

• The First-class Award of PhD Research Competition (SDU) (3X), '21, '23, '24.

• TUGSA's International Grad Student Fundraiser Prize (Temple), '20.

• Summer Teaching Grant (Temple), '19.

• Principal's Career Development Scholarship (U of Edinburgh), '15.

• First-class scholarship (SDU).

Languages

• Linguistic: Mandarine (Native), English (Fluent), Cantonese (Basic).

• Computing: R, Stata, Matlab, Mathematica.