SUFE Ranked Top 60 According to the Latest Tilburg Worldwide Economics Ranking

2016-06-28

In June 2016, Tilburg University in the Netherlands published the latest Worldwide Economics Ranking three years after its last publication. According to several different rankings (see https://econtop.uvt.nl/rankingsandbox.php), the economics discipline of SUFE has edged into top 60 in the world. For the years 2012-2015, in terms of publication quantity in the 35 leading international economics journals, SUFE has remained the 1st among all the universities in the Greater China region (including Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), and its rank has risen from 6th to 2nd in Asi...

<i>Frontiers of Economics in China</i> (Issue 2, 2016): free full-text download

2016-06-13

Dr. Nathan Schiff Awarded ULI Academic Prize

2016-02-26

Recently, Associate Professor Nathan Schiff was awarded the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Academic Prize for his paper “Cities and Product Variety: Evidence from Restaurants” published in Journal of Economic Geography (issue 6, 2015). The ULI Academic Prize, now in its second year, is jointly awarded by the ULI, the Journal of Economic Geography (JOEG) and Oxford University Press. It is granted annually to the author(s) of the best JOEG paper published online in the previous calendar year. The prize-winning paper is decided by a committee comprising tw...

The Director of the Economics Department of UCLA Professor Kathleen McGarry Visits the SOE

2015-12-22

On December 22, the director of the Economics Department of University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Kathleen McGarry visited the School of Economics and had a meeting with the Executive Associate Dean of SOE, Professor Guan Gong and the Assistant to Dean, Professor Kang Rong. At the meeting, Professor Guan Gong introduced the current development of the School, especially the Center for Oversea Studies and Exchange, hoping that we can have further exchange and cooperation with the UCLA in the future. Professor Kathleen McGarry introduced the economic department and their master’s pro...

Assistant Professor Zhenxing Huang's Paper (co-authored) Accepted by the Top <i>Journal American Economic Review</i>

2015-12-21

Recently, the paper titled "Measuring Discounting without Measuring Utility" co-authored by Zhenxing Huang, Assistant Professor of SOE, has been accepted by the top economics journal- The American Economic Review. Dr. Zhenxing Huang is a newly-introduced tenured track assistant professor to the SOE. He is graduated from Tinbergen Institute and his research field is Decision Theory in Behavioral Economics. The paper introduces a new method to measure the temporal discounting of money. Unlike preceding methods, their method requires neither knowledge nor measurement of utility. It is easier to i...

Assistant Professor Yu Jin's Paper (co-authored) Accepted by the Top Journal <i>The Review of Economic Studies</i>

2015-03-04

Recently, the paper titled "Securitization and Lending Competition" co-authored by Yu Jin, Assistant Professor and Director of Economics Department of SOE, has been accepted by the top economics journal- The Review of Economic Studies. This is a new breakthrough for the School of Economics on the academic publications of the faculty after the publications on international top journals including Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics and Journal of International Economics etc.in recent three mont...

Upcoming Event: 2014 SUFE Economic History Workshop

2014-10-13

Upcoming Event: The 4^th Shanghai Econometrics Workshop

2014-06-23

2014 Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop Held

2014-05-30

During May 24-26, the School of Economics and the Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics (SUFE), Ministry of Education jointly held the 2014 Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop. Executive Associate Dean of the SOE Guan Gong, Distinguished Professor of SOE, Co-Director of Department of Economics Kevin X.D. Huang attended the workshop and delivered speeches. The workshop organizer, SOE Associate Professor Zhe Li chaired the opening ceremony. This is the 5th year that SOE held the Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop, as one of our summer workshop series aiming to provide a high-level acade...

Upcoming Event: Rapid Aging and Chinese Pension Reform: Challenge and Opportunity

2014-05-08

Upcoming Event: The 5^th Shanghai Microeconomics Workshop

2014-03-24

Upcoming Event: The 5^th Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop

2014-03-19

Upcoming Event: China's Environmental Challenges: A Global Perspective

2014-03-03

Opening Ceremony of 9^th Dynare Conference Held at SUFE

2013-11-04

Opening Ceremony of 9th Dynare Conference Held at SUFE President Liming Fan of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Delivers an Opening Speech Prof. Christopher Sims, the 2011 Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at Princeton University Delivers a Keynote Speech SOE Executive Associate Dean Guan Gong Chairs the Opening Ceremony At the Opening Ceremony President Fan Meets with Prof. Christopher Sims President Fan Meets with Dr. Oreste Tristani, Senior Adviser and Directorate General Research at European Central Bank Invited Speakers ...