Brief Introduction to INSE Research Group
Brief Introduction to the
Institute of New Structural Economics
Research Group
Proposed and championed by Professor Justin Yifu Lin, New Structural Economics applies the neoclassical approach，based on the given factor endowments and endowments structure at any specific time, to study the determinates of economic structure, including technology, industry, infrastructure and institutions, and its dynamic evolution in the process of economic development. It underscores the essential roles of an effective market as well as a facilitating government in achieving rapid, inclusive and sustainable development. The NSE has been endorsed by renowned economists worldwide, including more than 10 Nobel Laureates such as Joseph Stiglitz, Gary Becker, Douglass North, Robert Fogel, Michael Spence and George Akerlof, and is taken as the third wave in development economics after Structuralism and neoliberalism.
The Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University aims to promote in-depth research and application of New Structural Economics, forging a platform to lead internationally theoretic research in new development ideas, to offer policy advice, and to provide educational programs. The introduction to our team is as follows.
Academic Team
Bo Hu
Bo Hu joined the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University in 2017. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University, Bloomington. Bo Hu's primary research interests include econometrics and macroeconomics. He focuses on time series and functional data analysis, and their applications in macroeconomics and finance.
Email: bohu@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Shenzhe Jiang
Shenzhe Jiang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. He earned his PhD from Texas A&M University in 2017. His research is in the field of Macroeconomics. He currently focuses on studies of dynamic contract, asset pricing and monetary economics.
Email: shenzhejiang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xiao Ke
Xiao Ke, Research post-doctor at the Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University. Ph.D.: WISE, Xiamen University, China. Research Interests: Applied econometrics, urban economics, and Chinese economy.
Email: xiaoke@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Justin Yifu Lin
Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University. He obtained PhD in Economics from University of Chicago in 1986. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to this, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is the author of more than thirty books including Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries, Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, the Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, Demystifying the Chinese Economy, and New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy. He is Councillor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.
Email: justinlin@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Zhengwen Liu
Dr. Zhengwen Liu is currently a Post Doctor at the Institute of New Structural Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University in 2017, and B.S. in Science from the Department of Physics, Tsinghua University in 2012. Dr. Zhengwen Liu’s research fields include international trade, empirical study of industrial organization and industrial policy.
Email: zhengwenliu@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xiaomeng Ren
Xiaomeng Ren, Research-Track Post-Doctoral Scholar, the Institute of New Structure Economics (INSE), Peking University. PhD. in economics, Zhejiang University. His research interest lies in the fields of macroeconomics and new structural economics. His recent research focus on economics growth, innnovation, Islamic finance and development finance.
Email: xiaomengren@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xuemin Tang
Xuemin Tang, Post-doctoral of INSE. She received her PhD in Economics from Renmin University of China. She was a visiting scholar in Rutgers University. Her research focuses on New Structural Economics, International Trade and Industry Economics. She is particularly interested at Development Strategy and Inequality.
Email: xuemintang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xin Wang
Xin Wang is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Structural Economics at Peking University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016 and her bachelor's degree in Economics and Statistics from Peking University in 2011. Her research interests include international trade, development economics and labor economics. Currently, her research mainly focuses on the interrelationship between international trade, labor market and structural transformation.
Email: xin.wang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Personal Website: http://xinwangecon.weebly.com/
Yong Wang
Yong Wang is an Associate Professor of Economics and Academic Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. He obtained PhD from University of Chicago, where he won the Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Price Theory. His research fields are Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy, China and India Economies. His recent research topics include structural change, industry dynamics, industrial policies, China’s state capitalism, and middle-income trap. He was a resident research fellow at the World Bank (2010-2011). He publishes papers on Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, etc. and also serves as a guest editor for China Economic Review. He is the author of several books including "Thinking and Debates on New Strucutral Economics" (Peking University Press). Yong was frequently invited to present his research at policy institutions including IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, US Department of State, US Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve Bank , People’s Bank of China, and Korean Institute of Finance.
Email: yongwang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Personal Website: http://dlq87u9xvtg.globalsite.cc/zh
Yi Wen
Yi Wen, visiting professor at the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, assistant vice Presient of Federal Reserve Bank of America (St. Louis Branch), Chinese national "Millennium Program" expert.He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Iowa in 1996. His research field is Macroeconomics. His research topics include Business cycle and economic fluctuation theory, Multiple Equilibrium and Market Failure in Dynamic Optimization, Asset bubbles that self-actualize under rational expectations, the Micro Basis and Dynamic General Equilibrium of Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing Policy, Developing Political Economy and China's Macroeconomy,etc. He has published more than 40 academic articles in the forefront of economics journal,such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, American Economic Theory, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is the author of several books including "The Making of an Economic Superpower——Unlocking China’s Secret of Rapid Industrialization"(World Book Inc Press, 2016) and "Great China's Industrial Revolution"(Tsinghua University Press, 2016).
Email: yi.wen.08.08.2008@gmail.com
Junjie Xia
Junjie Xia is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. His research fields are Macroeconomics, Finance, international trade and Chinese Economy. Current research topics include financial frictions, misallocation, automation, industrial upgrading and income distribution. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California in 2017 (Advisor: Vincenzo Quadrini).
Email：junjiexia@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Personal Website：www.junjiexia.com
Jiajun Xu
Jiajun Xu is an Assistant Professor and the Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Xu worked in the United Nations and World Bank and currently acts as the General Secretary of the Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST). Her research focuses on development financing, industrial parks and global economic governance. She has published in top academic journals in the field of international development such as Journal of International Development and Institute of Development Studies Bulletin. She is the guest editor of China Economic Review and the lead author of Global Development Financing Report (2015). Her academic monograph Beyond US Hegemony in International Development was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She has led several policy-oriented development projects aimed at leveraging special economic zones to achieve structural transformation in developing countries such as Benin, Djibouti and Nigeria. Xu holds a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford.
Email: jiajunxu@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Jianye Yan
Jianye Yan, Associate Professor, the Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University. He held a Ph.D from Toulouse School of Economics, France. His research areas include industrial organization, mechanism design, market
design, regulation, theory of incentives, behavioral economics and Chinese
economy. He has published academic articles in American Economic Journal:
Microeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Inquiry, Energy Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Economics, etc.
Email: jianyeyan@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Zirong Yang
Zirong Yang is a Post Doctor at the Institute of New Structural Economics, and the winner of Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship. He received his Ph.D in Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University in 2016. His research fields include Spillover Effect of Monetary Policy, Financial Structure.
Email: zirongyang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Shaona Ma
Shaona Ma, Research Assistant at INSE. She received her master degree in Education from the Capital Normal University. Now she is mainly responsible for the preparation for summer school & winter school, application and management for research project, notification for fund application, organization for NSE Seminar, as well as other routine matters.
Email：shaonama@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Shengtao Yu
Shengtao Yu is currently a research assistant in the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Shengtao Yu received his master degree in MBA from Bangkok University of Thailand. His work contents: visa application, International conference organization, International development forum, fund management, AEA recruitment, and the management of visiting scholars.
Email: shengtaoyu@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Domestic Think Tank Team
Xi Chen
Xi Chen is the Chief Officer of the Institute of New Structural Economics. She holds a Ph.D degree from the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University, a master degree from the Fordham University of the U.S.She has written a number of academic papers on Cross-cultural communication, and is the author of 1 book,Cross-Culture Communication Management of Confucius Institutes, which published by Peking University Press in 2016.
Research Interests: Cross-cultural Communication, Cross-cultural Management, Case study on Structural Transformation.
Email：xchen@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Caihui Fu
Caihui Fu is the domestic think tank researcher of the Institute of New Structural Economics. He holds a Ph.D from Xiamen University. He is responsible for the new structure of the Institute of Economics think tank research and discipline construction. In recent years, he has presided over a number of national social science fund projects, fund projects behind his Ph.D., and research projects on the transformation and upgrading of state and local governments. He has published over 20 academic papers and co-edited with Professor Lin Yifu entitled "Where is New Structural Economics? , "Report on the Transformation and Upgrading of the World Economic Structure" and "Case Study on New Structural Economics".
Email：fucaihui@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Li Hui
Li Hui is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University. She works here as a core member of the domestic think-tank team that aims to enhance industrial upgrading and structural change in China. Obtaining her PHD in Economics from Wuhan University in July 2016, she focuses her research on new structural economics, industrial economics, and environmental economics. Current research topics include structural transformation and industrial policy, Environmental regulation and economic growth.
Qiuyun Zhao
Qiuyun Zhao is the domestic think tank postdoctoral of the Institute of New Structural Economics. He holds a Ph.D degree from Peking University. He has published more than 20 papers in the "China Economist", "financial research" and other domestic and foreign core academic journals published. He won domestic and foreign prize more than 30 awards, includes the National Economics postdoctoral academic forum one Award, Tan Chongtai development economics scholarship, Shanghai Young Economist Forum second prize. Has repeatedly participated in the National Social Science Fund, the National Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China major projects and local government think tank projects. Research areas: land transfer, income distribution of elements and new structural economics.
Email：qiuyunzhao@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xinxin Ding
Xinxin Ding is a Project Research Specialist of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. She got her master’s degree from Renmin University of China in 2016. Her research fields are economic development, structural change, labor market, inequality, and industrial policies. She currently focuses on economic transformation and industrial upgrading in Chinese regions.
Email：xinxinding@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Jiewei Li
Jiewei Li is a Project Research Specialist in the Institute of New Structural Economics, primarily responsible for domestic projects. His research interest mainly lies in institutional economics, development economics and applied microeconomics. He once visited Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and is an alumnus of the Ronald Coase Institute. As an investigator, he took part in some significant field projects such as China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) and China Small and Micro Enterprise Survey (CMES).
Email：jieweili@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang is a Project Research Specialist of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. He got his master’s degree from Renmin University of China in 2017.He participated the think tank issue of the industrial restructuring and upgrading of Hebei, Tibet, Jilin, Zhongshan. Research Interests: Agricultural Economics, Macroeconomics, China's economy.
Email：qiangzhang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Shuting Zhang
Shuting Zhang is the Project Research Specialist of the Institute of New Structural Economics. She finished her master study in Peking University. Her research interests are in the areas of development economics, population economics, industrial structure transformation and upgrading, and industrial policy. Specifically, the focus of her research is on the industrial structure transformation and upgrading in different districts of China.
Email：shutingzhang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Jing Ding
Jing Ding is a domestic think tank operations assistant of the Institute of New Structural Economics. She got her bachelor’s degree from Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute of Portuguese. She has been engaged in the training of international business officials of the Ministry of Commerce and the liaison work of foreign political party cadres in the United Zoomlion Department. She is responsible for domestic think tank project project, research, management, think tank brand building, research and development and promotion works.
Email：jingding@nsd.pku.edu.cn
International Think Tank Team
Chenmei Li
Chenmei Li is a Research Assistant Analyst of the Institute of New Structural Economics. She got her master's degree in Economics of Development from Erasmus University. She used to be Research Assistant at Erasmus and Project Assistant at China Economic and Technology Exchange Center.
Email: chenmeili@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Yanchao Li
Yanchao Li, Researcher at the Institute of New Structural Economics , Peking University, China, and Honorary Fellow at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR), the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to joining INSE Yanchao worked as Consultant/Economist at the World Bank, and Research Associate at MIOIR. Yanchao’s research has focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial policies. She performed as task leaders in large-scale projects such as the EU H2020 project 'Industrial Innovation in Transition', the World Bank innovation flagship project 'Country Innovation Diagnostics', and the Inter-American Development Bank project 'Spurring Innovation-led Development in LAC countries'. She has published 10+ articles in well-known international journals, as well as book chapters and policy reports upon invitation. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester, MSc from Tsinghua University, and BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Email: yanchaoli@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Sarah HAGER-LOSS
Sarah HAGER-LOSS is the Part-time Project Research Specialist and Research Manager at the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Sarah has more than five years’ experience in the private sector. In 2012 she co-founded Oxford Logical Consulting, a U.S. based consulting partnership working in operational planning, strategic technology evaluation, and economic consulting. Ms. Hager-Loss is a graduate of the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). Prior to graduation, she worked as an analyst intern at global security think-thank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), in London.
Email: sarahhager@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Jia Yu
Jia Yu is the Senior Operations Officer and the Director of International Development Cooperation at INSE. She is responsible for the application of New Structural Economics to the international investment practice. Previously, Dr. YU worked more than 8 years for a Chinese SOE as the director of the Dept. of Business Development & Public Relations of State Power Investment Corp. (SPIC) International Minerals & Investment Co., Ltd. She was responsible for overseas energy and mining investment and public relations at corporate level; global resources market research, China’s outward FDI policy and empirical studies at a macro level. Before joining SPIC, Dr. YU started her career as a consultant for the utility industry with Accenture. Dr. YU is graduated from Peking University with a double major in French and Economics and received a scholarship from the French government to continue her studies in France. Dr. YU has obtained two Masters’ degrees, in Development Economics and Project Management, at CERDI-CNRS in France, where she also received her PhD in Development Economics. Her research fields focus on Chinese “Go Global” empirical studies, Industrial Park and Special Economic Zones (SEZ) diagnosis, as well as China's overseas investment and the interaction of the manufacturing, energy and mining sector and their roles in the process of industrialization for Belts & Roads countries.
Email: jiayu@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xinyue Wu
Xinyue Wu is the Research Assistant Analyst of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. She got her master's degree in Political Economy from King’s College London. She participated in the policy consulting projects for industrial parks in Asian and African countries, and her research areas are development finance, infrastructure financing for industrial parks, global buyers and global value chain.
Email: xinyuewu@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Tozo Kokou Wotodjio
Tozo Kokou Wotodjio is the Part-time Project Research Specialist at the Institute of New Structural Economics. He is the PhD candidate in International Economics of University of International Business and Economics. His main work experience at INSE including: Policy consultancy and research experience in Industrial Park Projects for governments in Benin and Nigeria. Tozo is Excellent in French and English.
Research area: global value chain, FDI, international trade
Email: tozokokouwotodjo@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Zuoxiang Zhao
Zuoxiang Zhao is the Post doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of New Structural Economics , Peking University. He obtained Ph.D. in Economics from University of Exeter. He previously worked as a research assistant and part-time lecturer at the University of Exeter and participated many research projects including the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) funded item. After joining INSE, the research projects he led or participated in includes: “Nigeria Export Processing Zone Promotion”; “Adjusting to Rising Costs in Chinese Light Manufacturing”; Export Diversification and Industrial Policy: Case of African Economies; The 62nd China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project, etc.
Research Areas: Development Economics; Public Economics; Environmental Economics.
Email: zuoxiangzhao@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Xiaolu Li
Xiaolu (Lexie) Li is the Operations Assistant and Research Assistant Coordinator at the Institute of New Structural Economics. She received her master degree in Education from University of Maryland, College Park. She participated in Asian Development Bank (ADB) regional technical assistance projects and ADB sovereign loan programs. Her current responsibilities include project coordination & management, and brand building & promotion.
Email: xiaoluli@nsd.pku.edu.cn
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