Zhenning Han
韩 振 宁
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Ph.D. Candidate at School of Economics, University of Barcelona; Member of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (B.E.A.T.). Funded by Joan Oró FI Program. Institutional webpage and BEAT webpage. Email: zhenning.han@ub.edu. Advisors: Sergi Basco, Marc Teignier. My CV here.
My research focus on international trade, with interests spanning multinational production, technological change and asset bubble dynamics. I develop quantitative trade models and design empirical strategies that identify how technological and financial shocks propagate through global production and asset markets.
Research interests: Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics.
Job Market Paper
Automation-driven Shock Propagation through Multinational Production. Draft is coming soon!
Astract I develop a theoretical framework that embeds endogenous automation decisions into a task-based model with heterogeneous multinational enterprises. I show that automation reshapes the transmission of financial shocks across countries: highly automated MNEs propagate headquarters-country shocks more strongly through vertical linkages, while remaining less exposed to host-country labor market disruptions. The model identifies a novel automation-amplifying channel: financial crises in key headquarters countries induce highly automated and trade-intensive MNEs to contract production and sourcing disproportionately. This behavior amplifies both the trade collapse and output decline in host economies. The framework provides a new perspective on the Great Trade Collapse and the role of MNEs in the international propagation of financial shocks.
Working Papers
Automation, Gender Tipping and Occupational Segregation, with Sergi Basco and Marc Teignier
International Propagation of the "AI Bubbles", with Sergi Basco and Marc Teignier
Who Issues Programmable Money: Screening and Credit Creation, with Yidan Yan.
Teaching
Economic Growth (University of Barcelona 2025)
Student Advising
Treball de Fi de Grau (Final Undergraduate Thesis, TFG), Grau en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (ADE, Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management) , 2026-2027.
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