Summer School | Speakers Introduction
The 5th NSE Summer School organized by the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University is looming. From July 10th to 15th, 2018, at Langrun Garden Peking University, we invite some of the most famous economists and experts to provide intensive lectures regarding New Structural Economics.
ACADEMIC
Justin Yifu Lin
Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University, Former Chief Economist at World Bank.
He obtained his 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.
Yi Wen
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).
Yong Wang
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 (in Chinese) including "Thinking and Debates on New Structural Economics", "What’s New about New Structural Economics", "Industrial Policy: Summary, Reflection and Outlook "(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.
Jiandong Ju
Unigroup Chair Professor at the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University, Chang Jiang Scholar of the Chinese Ministry of Education.After receiving his doctorate in Economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1995, he served as assistant, associate and full professor at University of Oklahoma and professor at School of Economics and Management in Tsinghua University. He was the Dean of International School of Business Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics from 2014-2017. He was a resident scholar in International Monetary Fund, and consulted for World Bank and other policy organizations. He focused his research on International Trade, International Finance and Industrial Organization, and the main teaching courses are Advanced International Trade and Finance. His work has been published in American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal and other journals. For more information, please refer to his website: http://www.dsa-ju.com/.
Yuzhe Zhang
Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, Associate Editor of Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.He received his B.S. in Economics fromWuhan University in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006. His research fields are macroeconomics and contract theory and their interface with public finance and industrial organization. His main research areas are macroeconomics with borrowing constraints, application of dynamic contracts to unemployment insurance. He publishes extensively in top economics journals including American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, and Theoretical Economics. Over the course of his career, Professor Zhang has taught macroeconomics, contract theory, game theory to BA, MA and PhD students.
Célestin Monga
Vice President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management and Chief Economist of the African Development Bank.He previously served as Managing Director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and as Senior Economic Advisor at the World Bank. Dr. Monga has held various board and senior executive positions in academia, financial services and international development institutions. Among a host of professional achievements gained during a stellar career, he served on the Board of Directors of the internationally acclaimed Sloan School of Management, specifically its Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Meanwhile, he has also held teaching posts at both Boston University and the University of Bordeaux. An author, scholar and academic, he was the economics editor for the 5-volume New Encyclopedia of Africa (Charles Scribner’s, 2007) and his published works have been translated into multiple languages. Elsewhere he has co-authored academic articles and policy reports with many of the world’s economists including Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Solow (both Nobel Prize winners), Justin Yifu Lin, Robert Barro, Olivier Blanchard, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Dr. Monga is a graduate of MIT, Harvard, and the universities of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Bordeaux and Pau.
Xiaobo Zhang
Distinguished chair professor of economics at the National School of Development, Peking University.His research fields include agricultural economics, development economics, and Chinese economy. He has published widely in top economics journals, such as Journal of Political Economy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economics Perspective, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. His recent books include Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions (2009), Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses (2009), Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms: How Does China Cross the River? (2010), Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (2014), and China Regional Innovation Report (2016, in Chinese). He is the Chief Editor of China Economic Review. He received Sun Yefang Prize for Economics Research in China (the most prestigious award in the field of economics in China) and Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award (the highest award in the field of development economics). He has rich field experience in developing countries and has conducted firm or household surveys in China, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Myanmar.
Miaojie Yu
Boya Distinguished Professor and Deputy Dean of National School of Development (NSD), Peking University.He is director of Center for Global Economic Research (CGER), deputy director of China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, and Secretary-General, International Consortium for China Studies(ICCS). He is a Chang-Jiang Scholar of Ministry of Education of China, and is awarded as China’s National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He also serves as Vice President of the China Trade Research Group (CTRG). He holds his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Davis (2005) under the direction of Dr. Robert Feenstra. He serves as a deputy editor of China Economic Journal, and an editorial member of the journal China Economic Review and Economic Systems. Professor Yu’s research includes international trade and Chinese economy. He has published around 90 peer-reviewed papers in English and Chinese, including prestigious peer-review academic journals such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics. He earned the Royal Economic Society (RES) Prize as his sole-authored paper published in the Economic Journal won the annual best paper award in 2016. He is the first Chinese economist to receive the RES prize. He also won China’s Anzijie International Trade Research Prize, the highest research award for international trade research in China, four times (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016), in addition to China’s highest research award on humanity and social science—Wu yuzhang Prize(2017), China’s highest research award on development economics—Pei-Kang Chang Prize in Development Economics (2016), the Liu-Shibai Economic Research Prize (2014), Husheng Outstanding Young Scholar Research Prize (2015), and China’s Commercial Development Research Prize (2015). He has columns in Singapore South Morning Post, People’s Daily, and FT(Chinese). His book “Trade like this” is the Best seller of Chinese foreign trade in the Amazon. He also serves as advisor on the United Nations, Ministry of Finance of China, Ministry of Commerce of China, International Poverty Reduction Cooperation Center of the State Council and many local governments.
Pengfei Wang
Professor of Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).He is director of Center for Global Economic Research (CGER), deputy director of China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, and Secretary-General, International Consortium for China Studies(ICCS). He is a Chang-Jiang Scholar of Ministry of Education of China, and is awarded as China’s National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He also serves as Vice President of the China Trade Research Group (CTRG). He holds his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Davis (2005) under the direction of Dr. Robert Feenstra. He serves as a deputy editor of China Economic Journal, and an editorial member of the journal China Economic Review and Economic Systems. Professor Yu’s research includes international trade and Chinese economy. He has published around 90 peer-reviewed papers in English and Chinese, including prestigious peer-review academic journals such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics. He earned the Royal Economic Society (RES) Prize as his sole-authored paper published in the Economic Journal won the annual best paper award in 2016. He is the first Chinese economist to receive the RES prize. He also won China’s Anzijie International Trade Research Prize, the highest research award for international trade research in China, four times (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016), in addition to China’s highest research award on humanity and social science—Wu yuzhang Prize(2017), China’s highest research award on development economics—Pei-Kang Chang Prize in Development Economics (2016), the Liu-Shibai Economic Research Prize (2014), Husheng Outstanding Young Scholar Research Prize (2015), and China’s Commercial Development Research Prize (2015). He has columns in Singapore South Morning Post, People’s Daily, and FT(Chinese). His book “Trade like this” is the Best seller of Chinese foreign trade in the Amazon. He also serves as advisor on the United Nations, Ministry of Finance of China, Ministry of Commerce of China, International Poverty Reduction Cooperation Center of the State Council and many local governments.
Keun Lee
He has been awarded the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-creation and the Middle Income Trap (2013 Cambridge Univ. Press) by the International Schumpeter Society. He is also the President-Elect of this Society. He is currently a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN, a co-editor of Research Policy, a member of the governing board of Globelics, and had also served as the President of the Asia-Pacific Innovation Network. He obtained Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He had working experience at the World Bank, University of Aberdeen, and the East West Center, Hawaii. He had taught or was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Davis, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Hitotsubashi University in Japan, Hannover University in Germany, and Punjabi University in India. One of his most widely-cited articles with 710 or so citations (Google Scholar) is a paper on Korea’s Technological Catch-up published in Research Policy (2001). His H-index by Google Scholar is now 30, with 70 papers with more than 10 citations.
THINK TANK
Yan Wang
She previously worked as Senior Economist and Team Leader in the World Bank for 20 years and had served as Coordinator of the OECD-DAC and China Study Group for two years (2009-2011). She has received twice the SUN Yefang Award in Economics (the highest award in economics in China), and her major joint publications include The Quality of Growth (2000), Corporation Governance (1998), China’s Pension System Reform (2003). She has been working with Professor Justin Yifu Lin on several papers/books including Going beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation (2017 by Cambridge University Press). She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, and taught economics before joined the World Bank, and after retirement from the World Bank.
Xi Chen
Chief Officer and Domestic Think-Tank Research Associate of the Institute of New Structural Economics.She holds a PhD 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.
Caihui Fu
Domestic Think Tank Research Associate of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking 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 Justin Yifu Lin entitled "Where is New Structural Economics?", Report on the Transformation and Upgrading of the World Economic Structure" and "Case Study on New Structural Economics". He holds a Ph.D from Xiamen University.
Zuoxiang Zhao
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.
Qiuyun Zhao
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University.He holds a PhD 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.
Li Hui
Post-doctoral Research Fellow 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.
Chenmei Li
Project Research Specialist at Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University.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.
Agenda
Agenda for the Fifth Summer School on New Structural Economics