Assistant Professor Luo Sai's Co-authored Paper Accepted for Publication in an International Class I Economics Journal

2025-09-05

Recently, the co-authored paper Curriculum, Political Participation, and Career Choice by Assistant Professor Luo Sai of the Department of Labor Economics at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, was accepted for publication in Review of Economics and Statistics, an international Class I economics journal.01 AbstractWe examine the causal impact of ideological education on students' political participation and career choices by exploiting China's staggered rollout of a high school curriculum reform that emphasized political indoctrination. Using national...

"National Library of Philosophy and Social Science Achievements" Work by Professor Cheng Lin and Others Officially Published

2025-08-04

Recently, The Historical Status and Modern Value of Traditional Chinese Economic Thought, authored by Professor Cheng Lin and others of the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, was officially published by Science Press, totaling 935,000 Chinese characters. The work was selected for the 2024 National Library of Philosophy and Social Science Achievements.01 Content IntroductionChina's fine traditional culture is the crystallization of wisdom and the essence of more than five thousand years of Chinese civilization. It is an important foundation for building a mod...

Associate Professor Sun Wei's Co-authored Paper Published in an International Class I Economics Journal

2025-08-04

Recently, the co-authored paper Saving an Old Regime with New Elites? The Unintended Effects of Co-opting Foreign-Educated Councilors in China by Associate Professor Sun Wei of the Department of Resource and Environmental Economics at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, was published in Journal of Development Economics, an international Class I economics journal.AbstractHow does the co-optation of foreign-educated elites influence local stability? This study exploits a quasi-experimental setting created by the establishment of provincial Consultative Bureaus ...

The School of Economics Successfully Hosts the 2025 Shanghai Microeconomics Workshop

2025-07-10

From June 20 to 21, the 2025 Shanghai Microeconomics Workshop was successfully held at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The workshop specially invited Professor Tilman Börgers of the University of Michigan, Professor John Weymark of Vanderbilt University, Professor Flip Klijn, Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish National Research Council and Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, and Professor Yusufcan Masatlioglu of the University of Maryland to deliver keynote speeches. The workshop also invited scholars from universit...

Overview of High-Quality Academic Achievements of Faculty and Students of the School of Economics in the Second Quarter

2025-07-09

In the second quarter of 2025, faculty and students of the School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics achieved fruitful academic research outcomes. Among these, more than 20 papers were published in renowned domestic and international economics journals, including 1 paper in Social Sciences in China, a top domestic economics journal, and 15 papers in international Class II economics journals or above and domestic authoritative journals. The main achievements and abstracts are presented below.The co-authored paper Money Creation and the Divergence of Chinese and Western...

Announcement of the ISE 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award Winners

2025-07-09

Announcement: The ISE Outstanding Reviewer Award 2024We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 ISE Outstanding Reviewer Award. From over 100 candidates, the editors’ team (including guest editors) has selected six exemplary reviewers based on rigorous evaluation of review quality, turnaround time, and review volume. The awardees (in alphabetical order) are:Shiqi GUO (Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)Fangzhou LU (Business School, The University of Hong Kong)Jingjing XU (School of Management, Economics, and M...

The School of Economics Successfully Hosts the 2025 Shanghai Econometrics Workshop

2025-07-01

On June 24–25, 2025, the 2025 Shanghai Econometrics Workshop: Network and Spatial Econometrics, jointly hosted by the School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and the Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics of the Ministry of Education, was successfully held at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The workshop brought together scholars and doctoral students from multiple universities and research institutions at home and abroad, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of War...

The School of Economics Successfully Hosts the 2025 Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop

2025-06-23

From June 16 to 17, the 13th Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop was successfully held at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The workshop brought together macroeconomics scholars and outstanding doctoral students from multiple universities and institutions at home and abroad, including University College London, the Bank of Italy, the University of Nebraska, the University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiamen University, and Jinan University. It aimed to promote cooperation and development...

Professor Yan Hongzhong and Student's Co-authored Paper Published in the Top Journal Social Sciences in China

2025-06-18

Recently, the co-authored paper Money Creation and the Divergence of Chinese and Western Monetary Systems by Professor Yan Hongzhong of the Department of Economic History at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and doctoral student Zhuang Yan was officially published in Social Sciences in China, a top journal in the field of philosophy and social sciences.AbstractMoney is important for the development of both Eastern and Western civilizations, but it is even more significant for China. The invention of state paper money in the Song Dynasty formed the first div...

The School of Economics Hosts the 2025 Shanghai Workshop of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

2025-06-12

From June 5 to 6, the 2025 Shanghai Workshop of Behavioral and Experimental Economics was held at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The workshop specially invited two guests to deliver keynote speeches: Professor Jeroen van de Ven of the University of Amsterdam and Professor Bjorn Bartling of the University of Zurich. It also invited scholars and doctoral students from multiple universities and research institutions at home and abroad, including Erasmus University Rotterdam, San Diego State University, George Mason University Korea, Shandong University, Hua...

The Fourth Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the SUFE Environmental and Resource Economics Forum Successfully Held

2025-05-24

From May 16 to 18, the "Fourth Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (CAERE) and the SUFE Environmental and Resource Economics Forum" was held at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. More than 200 experts and scholars from renowned universities and research institutions at home and abroad attended the conference, including Cornell University, North Carolina State University, the National University of Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejian...

The 33rd Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Society for the Study of Foreign Economic Doctrines Successfully Held at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

2025-05-10

With the support and care of the university and the college, the School of Economics of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is meticulously developing its academic brand series "Managing the State and Benefiting the People · Frontiers of Political Economy," relying on a series of important academic projects such as research papers, academic works, seminars, lectures, and reports. These efforts aim to further expand new dimensions in the development of our college's political economy discipline, contributing the wisdom and strength of Shanghai University of Finance and Ec...

2025 First-Quarter Macroeconomic Special Seminar and the Unveiling Ceremony of the SUFE China Macroeconomic Research Center

2025-04-24

On the morning of April 20, the 2025 First-Quarter Macroeconomic Special Seminar and the Unveiling Ceremony of the China Macroeconomic Research Center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics were held at the university. Focusing on the theme "China-US Trade in the Trump 2.0 Era," the forum released the 2025 First-Quarter Macroeconomic Special Report (click the link below for the full report). It analyzed the risks and opportunities facing China-US trade in the Trump 2.0 era as well as China's countermeasures, and held in-depth discussions on the driving forces and di...

Professor Zhang Yan's Co-authored Paper Published Online in an International Class I Economics Journal

2025-04-11

Recently, the co-authored paper Pains or Gains: Trade War, Trade Deficit, and Tariff Evasion by Professor Zhang Yan, Chair of the Department of Macroeconomics at our School, was published online in Journal of International Economics, an international Class I economics journal. Abstract This paper reveals that the reduction in the US-China trade deficit during the trade war obscured reporting discrepancies in US imports of Chinese products due to tariff evasion. We empirically examine the effect of the US-China trade war on tariff evasion in US imports of Chinese goods and provide dir...