Inauguration Ceremony of Collaborative Innovation Center for Economic Theory and Practice Held

2012-07-26

On July 22, the inauguration ceremony of Collaborative Innovation Center for Economic Theory and Practice was held at the administration building of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. It is the first collaborative innovation center for economics in China, which is jointly founded by SOE at SUFE, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and the Research Institute of Economics and Management at Southwest University of Finance and Economics under the support of SUFE, Tsinghua University and Southwest University of Finance and Economics. Deputy Director Xianchun ...

Upcoming Event: The 3rd Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop

2012-05-30

Upcoming Event: The 3rd Shanghai Microeconomics Workshop

2012-05-30

Paper by Dr. Fuhai Hong Accepted by <i>Journal of Public Economics</i>

2012-05-24

Recently, the paper of SOE Assistant Professor Dr. Fuhai Hong "International Environmental Agreements with Mixed Strategies and Investment" co-authored with Prof. Larry Karp at University of California Berkeley was accepted by Journal of Public Economics for publication. International Environmental Agreements with Mixed Strategies and Investment Abstract: We modify a canonical participation game used to study International Environmental Agreements (IEA), considering both mixed and pure strategies at the participation stage, and including a prior cost-reducing investment s...

2012 Shanghai Econometrics Workshop Held

2012-05-23

During May 17~18, the 2012 Shanghai Econometrics Workshop was held by the Department of Quantitative Economics at SOE, SUFE. This workshop welcomed econometricians and scholars from China and abroad to gather together and exchange their views on interesting topics and frontier research findings in econometrics. The keynote speaker at this workshop was Prof. Peter C.B. Phillips from Yale University. Invited speakers included Profs. Jushan Bai from Columbia University, Jin-Chuan Duan from National University of Singapore, Liangjun Su from Singapore Management University, Zhijie Xiao from Bost...

Upcoming Event: 2012 Shanghai Econometrics Workshop

2012-05-14

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Pak Hung Au from Northwestern U. Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Pak Hung Au from Northwestern University has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Au is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory and Corporate Finance. His basic information is as follows: Homepage: www.depot.northwestern.edu/~pha277/indexjm.html EducationPh.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IllinoisCommittee Chairperson: Professor Asher WolinskyDate of Completion: June 2012 (expected)M.A.: Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2007...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Yu Jin from Iowa State U. Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Yu Jin from Iowa State University has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Jin is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Financial Economics, Credit Markets, Economic Theory and Applied Econometrics. His basic information is as follows: Homepage: http://yujin.public.iastate.edu Education2012 (expected) Ph.D., Major: Economics, Minor: Applied Mathematics, Iowa State University, U.S.Thesis Topic: Essays on Financial Institutions and Instability2005 M.A., in Economics, Fudan University, China2002 B.A.,...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Xin Jin from U. of Toronto Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Xin Jin from University of Toronto has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Jin is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Financial Econometrics and Applied Econometrics. His basic information is as follows: Homepage: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jin_xin Education2011 PhD, Economics, University of Toronto (2006-)Dissertation: Modelling Covariance Dynamics for Assets returnsCommittee: John Maheu (supervisor), Martin Burda, Gordon Anderson2006 MA, Economics, University of Toronto (2005-2...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Lei Ji from North Carolina State U. Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Lei Ji from North Carolina State University has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Ji is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Economic Growth and Development, International Trade, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization and Econometrics. Her basic information is as follows: Homepage: http://mwpweb.eu/leiji/ Current PositionMax Weber Fellow, European University Institute EducationPh.D. Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Dec 2010M.A. Economics, North Carolina State University, R...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. King King Li from HKUST Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. King King Li from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Li is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Behavioral Economics/Experimental Economics, Experimental Political Economy, Design of Voting Institutions, Design of Incentive Payment Schemes and Choice under Risk and Uncertainty. His basic information is as follows: Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/likingking EducationPh.D. Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, November 2008Adviso...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Ker Zhang from U. of Wisconsin Madison Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Ker Zhang from University of Wisconsin Madison has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Zhang is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Energy and Environment. His basic information is as follows: Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/kzhang2/ EducationPh.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Expected 2012.Dissertation: Essays in Industrial OrganizationCommittee: Jean-Francois Houde (Major Advisor) Amit Gandhi Kenneth HendricksM.S. Economics, University...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Kang Rong from U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Kang Rong from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Rong is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include microeconomic theory, game theory and public economics. His basic information is as follows: Homepage: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/krong2/www Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL USAPh.D. Economics (expected: May 2012)Advisor: Professor Steven WilliamsWuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaM.A., Economics, July 2004Wuhan University...

New Faculty Recruited: Dr. Dan Liu from UC Davis Accepted Offer from SOE

2012-02-20

Recently, Dr. Dan Liu from University of California, Davis has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Liu is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include International Economics, Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics. Her basic information is as follows: EducationPh.D., Economics, University of California, Davis (expected), 2012M.S., Statistics, University of California, Davis, 2011M.A., Economics, Peking University, 2007B.A., Statistics, Peking University, 2003 Fields of InterestInternational Economics, Econometrics,...