Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced the evaluation results for its 2026 funding cycle. The School of Economics has secured approval for 19 projects in total: 1 Young Scientists Fund Project (Category B), 9 General Programs, and 9 Young Scientists Fund Projects (Category C), with combined funding of 8.33 million yuan. The number of approved projects sets a ne...

In July 2026, upon notification from the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences: Professor Mao Peihua, Deputy Dean of the School of Economics and Director of the Department of Political Economy at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, serves as the chief expert for the special project for researching and interpreting the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central ...

Recently, Lecturer Zhang Yu from the Department of Resource and Environmental Economics, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, has had her co-authored paper Securing power, compromising climate: Evidence from drought shocks in China officially published in Journal of Development Economics, a top-tier international economics journal.Abstract This paper examines how...

Recently, Professor Ning Lei, Deputy Director of the Macroeconomics Division at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, has had his co-authored paper The impact of pension reforms and rapid aging on savings and the labor supply: The case of China officially published in Journal of Public Economics, a top-tier international economics journal.Abstract Over the pas...

In the second quarter of 2026, faculty and students from the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, achieved fruitful academic outputs, with 22 papers published in well-known economic journals at home and abroad. Among them, 10 papers appeared in international economics journals of Category II and above; four papers were published in domestic authoritative journals. The...

 The 2026 Shanghai Labor Workshop was successfully held at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics on July 7, 2026. Bringing together renowned labor economists and outstanding doctoral students from universities at home and abroad, including the University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Tech, the University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, Shanghai University of Financ...