About the speaker:

Yingjie Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in the Marketing Recruitment at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. In 2026, she received the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (Category A). She has also received the 2025 INFORMS ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award and the 2019 INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award. Dr. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University in 2013 with dual degrees in Computer Science and Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems and Management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018.

Her research interests focus on AI-native social science research, human-AI collaboration, social media, and user behavior. She employs interdisciplinary approaches, including econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, and field experiments, to investigate the impact of digital technologies on firms and consumers. Her research has been published in leading international academic journals, including Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Research.

Her current teaching includes Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Research in Business and Economics, and Marketing Management. Dr. Zhang currently serves as an Associate Editor of MIS Quarterly, an Associate Editor and Special Issue Editor for Decision Sciences, a Young Editorial Board Member of Fundamental Research, and a Professional Editor of the Journal of Marketing Science.

About the speaker:

Dr Han Hong has been a Professor of Economics in Stanford University since 2007. He received his Bachelor degree from Lingnan College, ZhongshanUniversity in 1993 majoring in International Trade. After obtaining his PhD degree in Economics from Stanford University in 1998, he taught as anassistant professor in Princeton University until 2003, and as an associateprofessor and a professor in Duke University between 2003 and 2007. Hisresearch interests focus on econometrics, industrial organization, and appliedmicroeconomic analysis. He has published in top economics and econometricsjournals on a wide range of research topics. In 2009 he was elected to be amember of the Econometric Society, an internationally recognized organizationfor economists and econometricians.  Professor Hong has alsovisited and taught in Renmin University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Chicago, and the Catholic Universite de Louvain in Belgium. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics between 2011 and 2018, a flagship journal for econometrics research.

About the speaker:

Professor Songfa Zhong is Chair Professor of Economics and the Pan Sutong Professor of Business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on behavioral economics, including behavioral economic theory, experimental research, and their applications. His work is highly interdisciplinary and employs a variety of research methods, spanning fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and genetics.

Professor Zhong has published dozens of academic papers in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of the European Economic Association. In addition, he has published in several top interdisciplinary journals, such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Neuron, Management Science, and Psychological Science. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Management Science and Coordinating Editor of Theory and Decision.

About the speaker:

Ang Sun is currently a professor at the School of Finance, Renmin University of China. Professor Sun holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University. Her research areas include Development Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, and the Chinese Economy.In recent years, Professor Sun has published more than 20 papers in leading academic journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics, Management Science, the Journal of Human Resources, Demography, and the Economic Research Journal.

About the speaker:

Xiaoxia Shi is the Lowell and Leila Robinson Distinguished Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She works in econometric theory, with research on inference for moment inequality models, partially identified parameters, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, and model selection. Her papers have been published in leading journals including Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Quantitative Economics, and Journal of Econometrics.

Title: A Mixed Blessing: The Unintended Consequences of Social Welfare Policies on Child Development

Speaker: Chao Liang, Shandong University

Time: 2026/1/22 10:00-11:30

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Retirement as a Portfolio Turning Point: Evidence from China’s Statutory Retirement Age

Speaker: Wei Huang, Peking University

Time: 2026/1/12 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Publishing Social Science in Nature Journals

Speaker: Lingxiao Yan, the senior editor at Nature Climate Change

Time: 2025/12/30 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Speaker: Marc Chan, University of Melbourne

Title: The Family Multiplier:Understanding Delinquency and Parent-Adolescent Interactions

Time: 13:30-15:00, December 29, 2025 (Beijing Time, GMT + 8)

About the speaker:

Marc Chan is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Melbourne. His research develops and applies structural econometric methods to address policy-relevant questions in labour economics and public finance. He is particularly interested in modeling dynamic decision-making under uncertainty, equilibrium effects, and heterogeneity in behavioral responses. His recent work includes dynamic models of welfare participation, job search and matching, human capital accumulation, and family decision-making; estimation techniques for heterogeneous agents and hyperbolic discounting; and methodological advances for program evaluation in the presence of stochastic trends. On the empirical side, Professor Chan has examined the impacts of welfare reform, minimum wages, child care, and retirement savings incentives, and has contributed to the design and evaluation of tax-transfer systems. His work provides tools for simulating counterfactual policies and understanding distributional impacts. His research has appeared in leading journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quantitative Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Annual Review of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Speaker: Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Equity-Efficiency Implications of Output-Based College Resource Allocation

Time: 10:00-11:30, December 29, 2025 (Beijing Time, GMT + 8)

About the speaker:

Chao Fu is the Mary Claire Aschenbrenner Phipps Distinguished Chair of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her broad research area is empirical microeconomics that combines economic theories and econometrics tools to study policy relevant questions. Her research covers a wide range of topics, including education, urban policing, worker training, post-disaster reallocation and health insurance systems. A common theme of her research has been evaluating policy impacts from an equilibrium perspective.

Title: Fiscal Pressure, Administrative Penalties and City's Business Environment

Speaker: Wei Tang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Time: 2025/12/22 13:30-15:00

Venue: 406 Zengxianzi Science Building

Title: Can the Urban Poor Avoid Flood Risks? The Case of Cape Town, South Africa

Speaker: Thomas Monnier, Hitotsubashi University

Time: 2025/12/23 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Flatten the Curve: Effects of Geotagging on User Engagement in Weibo Hashtags

Speaker: Ao Wang, University of Warwick

Time: 2025/12/24 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Inference for Nonlinear Endogenous Treatment Effects Accounting for High-Dimensional Covariate Complexity

Speaker: Qingliang Fan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Time: 2025/12/25 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Locating the Garden of Eden: Transportation Infrastructure and Marriage Dynamics in China

Speaker: Ze Song, Nankai University

Time: 2025/12/26 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Local Projections, VAR, and Impulse Responses

Speaker: Ke-Li Xu, Indiana University

Time: 2025/12/15 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Unconditional Randomization Tests for Interference

Speaker: Liang Zhong, The University of Hong Kong

Time: 2025/12/08 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: The Spill-back and Spillover Effects of US Monetary Policy: Evidence on an International Cost Channel

Speaker: Xiaofang Dong, Xiamen University

Time: 2025/12/04 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Aging in a Dual Economy: Urban Aging, MassiveMigration, and Agricultural Development

Speaker: Junsen Zhang, Zhejiang University

Time: 2025/11/30 11:30-12:30

Venue: 2F, International Conference Hall, Zeng Xianzi Science Museum

About the speaker:

Junsen Zhang is a globally renowned Chinese economist whose research focuses on labor economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He is currently a Senior Professor of Humanities at the School of Economics, Zhejiang University, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a recipient of the 17th (2016) Sun Yefang Economic Science Award and the 2020 Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award.

His research focuses on labor economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He is dedicated to studying the economics of social issues, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers of payments, gender discrimination, and elderly care. He also specializes in macroeconomic issues related to families, such as population aging, social security, and economic growth.

He has published over 130 papers in internationally renowned journals, including 5 in the Journal of Political Economy, 1 in the Review of Economic Studies, and others in the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of International Economics, the International Economic Review, and the Economic Journal.

Title: Banking and Innovation: Evidence from the Industrial Revolution

Speaker: Jinlin Wei, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Time: 2025/11/27 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Forecasting GDP Growth Rates Using Accounting Earnings:A Large Panel Micro Data Approach

Speaker: Yongmiao Hong, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Time: 2025/11/29 16:00-17:00

Venue: 406 Zengxianzi Science Building

About the speaker:

Hong Yongmiao is a senior researcher at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an Academician of the World Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research, and the Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee for Guidance in Economics Major Teaching in Higher Education Institutions. He previously served as Chair Professor of Economics and International Studies and Professor of Statistics at Cornell University, and President of the Chinese Economist Society.

His research areas include econometrics, time series analysis, financial econometrics, and statistics. He has published over 180 articles in leading Chinese and English journals such asAnnals of Statistics, Biometrika, Econometrica, Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Royal Statistical Society B, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Financial Studies, Economic Research Journal, Journal of Management World, China Industrial Economics, Journal of Management Science and Engineering, and Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He has also published several books in Chinese and English, including Python Economic Big Data Analysis, Probability Theory and Statistics, Advanced Econometrics, Probability and Statistics for Economists, and Foundations of Modern Econometrics: A Unified Approach. He was listed as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in Economics/Statistics by Elsevier for 11 consecutive years from 2014 to 2024 and received the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (Undergraduate) in 2022.

Title: The Economics of Heritage: How Historic Buildings Shape China's Housing Market and Urban Development

Speaker: Xiaofang Dong, Xiamen University

Time: 2025/11/17 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Micro Shocks and Macro Fluctuations in the Information Network

Speaker: Minghao Li, Peking University

Time: 2025/11/21 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Fiscal Thinking for the 15th Five-Year Plan

Speaker: Wei Lü, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Time: 2025/11/24 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

About the speaker:

Lü Wei is the former president of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, a Distinguished Professor, and a doctoral supervisor in the School of Economics. He also served as the eighth convener of the subject consultative group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council (Applied Economics) and the vice president of the Society of Public Finance of China. He was selected as a National “Ten Thousand People Plan” Leading Talent in philosophy and social sciences, a member of the “Four Batches” of cultural figures selected by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, and a national-level candidate for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's New Century Talents Project.

His main research areas include fiscal theory and policy, and China’s economic reform and development. His research has been published in journals such as Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal, Journal of Management World, China Economic Quarterly, China Industrial Economics, Finance & Trade Economics, People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, and Economic Daily.

He served as the chief expert for Major Projects under the National Social Science Fund of China and as the project leader for a project supported by the State Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received numerous awards, including the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (Postgraduate), the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), and the Liu Shibai Economics Prize.

Title: Bridging the Divide: Infrastructure Investment, Network Reconstruction, and Urban Economic Growth

Speaker: Jindong Pang, Wuhan University

Time: 2025/11/12 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: The Effects of Ambient Air Pollution and Pollution Exposure on Inattention

Speaker: Jinhua Zhao, Cornell University

Time: 2025/11/05 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

About the speaker:

Jinhua Zhao is the David J. Nolan Dean and Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. He served on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board as well as the Air, Climate and Energy Committee of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors. He was a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and served on the editorial boards of JEEM, Review of Development Economics, Annual Review of Resource Economics, and Frontiers of Economics in China. He is currently on the editorial committee of Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. He conducts research in the broad area of environmental and resource economics, with special interests in global climate change, environmental regulation, technology adoption, dynamic decision making under uncertainty, and China’s environment. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals including Science, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, JEEM and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. His research projects have been funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US EPA and NASA.

Title: Regional Competition and the Government-Market Relationship with Chinese Characteristics

Speaker: Li-an Zhou, Peking University

Time: 2025/11/03 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

About the speaker:

Li-An Zhou is Boya Chair Professor of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Dr. Zhou received his BA and MA in economics from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He joined Gunaghua as an Assistant Professor in 2002 and became a full Professor in 2010. His research interests include political economy, industrial organization, economic development, and Chinese economy. Dr. Zhou has published papers in economics and management journals including American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Management Science, Journal of Economic History, and Strategic Management Journal. He is also the author of the book Incentives and Governance: China's Local Governments (Cengage Learning, 2010).

Title: Environmental Economic Management Research Cases Based on Social Computing

Speaker: Shouyang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Time: 2025/10/30 14:30-16:00

Venue: 406 Zengxianzi Science Hall

About the speaker:

Shouyang Wang is currently a Professor at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a position he has held since 2000. His research focuses on decision analysis, financial management, logistics and supply chain management, economic analysis and forecasting, and policy analysis.

He has won the first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Natural Science Award) at the ministerial and provincial-level 4 times, the second prize 6 times, and the third prize 3 times. He has won many other prizes at home and abroad, including the Fudan Management Excellence Award and the Jr. Scott Award. Shouyang Wang is selected as an Academician of the World Academy of Sciences, Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, Distinguished Researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Professor of the Yangtze River Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Director of the Center for Forecasting Science. 

Title: Structure and Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for the Chinese Economy

Speaker: Ming Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Time: 2025/10/24 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

About the speaker:

Ming LU is Distinguished Professor of Economics, Director of Shanghai Institute for National Economy (SHINE), and research fellow of China Institute of Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  He is appointed as a member of the National 15th Five Year Plan Expert Committee and a member of the Shanghai Decision Making Advisory Committee. He worked as a professor at Fudan University, and as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has consulted for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. His research covers regional and urban-rural development, labor economics and Chinese economy. Recently, his work evaluates the urban and regional development policies, and their effects on resource allocation and economic sustainability from a perspective of spatial political economics.

Title: Difference-in-Differences Meets Synthetic Control: Doubly Robust Identification and Estimation 

Speaker: Haitian Xie, Peking University

Time: 2025/10/11 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Speaker: Qingyuan Li, Wuhan University

Title: ESG Mandatory Disclosure, Differentiated Regulation and Regional Economic Growth

Time: 14:30-15:30, October 22, 2025 (Beijing Time, GMT + 8) 

About the speaker:

Qingyuan Li is currently a professor at the Economics and Management School of Wuhan University.

Title: Quitting Behavior of Chinese Gig Manufacturing Workers: Virtual and Offline Peer Effects

Speaker: Dandan Zhang, Peking University

Time: 2025/10/13 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

Title: The Impact of Sanctions on International Trade: Evidence from CoCom’s Export Control 

Speaker: Boxiao Zhang, Renmin University of China

Time: 2025/10/10 10:00-11:30

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: AI and Enterprise Innovation Model

Speaker: Ying Fang, Xiamen University

Time: 2025/09/27 9:30-11:00

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

Title: Is Population Aging Inevitable?

Speaker: Junjian Yi, Peking University

Time: 2025/09/23 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

Title: Stabilized Latent Group Structure Identification for Panel Data: A Tuning-free Approach

Speaker: Xingbai Xu, Xiamen University

Time: 2025/09/18 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Risk and Time Preferences of Couples in a General Population

Speaker: Hong Il Yoo, Loughborough University

Time: 2025/08/25 10:30-11:30

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Speaker: Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better: Rescuing Real-World Randomized Trials

Time: 10:00-11:00, July 7, 2025 (Beijing Time, GMT + 8) 

About the speaker

Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a co-founder and director of MIT's Blueprint Labs, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Angrist taught at Harvard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before coming to MIT in 1996. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1982 and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton in 1989. 

Angrist and his collaborators develop and study innovative ways to harness the power of natural experiments to answer important economic questions. These new econometric tools help social scientists and policy-makers discover the causal effects of individual choices and government policy changes. 

Angrist received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2021 (with Co-Laureates Guido Imbens and David Card). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has served on many editorial boards and as a co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics.  

In addition to scholarship and teaching, Angrist and Steve Pischke co-authored Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion and Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. 

Title: Intergenerational Persistence of Health and Earnings

Speaker: Kai Zhao, University of Connecticut

Time: 2025/06/27 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Office Space Segmentation and the Abundance Premium

Speaker: Liang Peng, Pennsylvania State University

Time: 2025/06/23 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building

Title: Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! Evidence from Academic Journals

Speaker: Wei Zhou, Hunan University

Time: 2025/06/16 13:30-15:00

Venue: 106 Zhonghui Building