 | MUYANG ZHANG Associate Professor, School of Public Economics and Administration Assistant Dean, China Institute of Public Finance Shanghai University of Finance and Economics 777 Guoding Rd., Shanghai, 200433, China Phone: +86-21-6590-8839 Email: zhang.muyang[at]mail.shufe.edu.cn Website: speaenglish.shufe.edu.cn/40/44/c5387a81988/page.htm Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b_P-qdsAAAAJ&h ORCID: 0000-0001-8819-146X Scopus Author ID: 56637262700 |
EDUCATION
September 2008-July 2013
Ph. D. in Economics
National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China
September 2004-June 2008
B.A. in Economics
School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
September 2010-May 2011
Visiting Scholar
Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A.
EMPLOYMENT
July 2013-July 2017
Assistant Professor
School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
July 2017-
Associate Professor
School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
November 2017-
Assistant Dean
China Institute of Public Finance, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
PUBLISHED PAPERS
1. Friends with benefits: Patronage networks and distributive politics in China, Journal of Public Economics, 184 (2020): 1-13. (with Junyan Jiang).
2. Political control and economic inequality: Evidence from Chinese cities, China Economic Review, 61 (2020): 1-18. (with Gang Fan and Guangsu Zhou).
3. Capability and opportunism: Evidence from city officials in China, Journal of Comparative Economics 46 (2018): 1046–1061. (with Tianyang Xi and Yang Yao).
4. Unequal school enrollment rights, rent yields gap, and increased inequality: The case of Shanghai. China Economic Review 49 (2018): 229-240. (with Jie Chen).
5. Subnational Leaders and economic growth: Evidence from Chinese cities. Journal of Economic Growth 20.4 (2015): 405-436. (with Yang Yao).
Papers Published on Academic Journals in Chinese:
6. The alienation of PPP financing under strict control of local government debt: Analysis based on promotion incentive. China Economic Quarterly, (2020) 19 (3): 1103-1122. (With Feng Wang, Wei Xiong, and Ninghua Zhong).
7. Can local government finance bear PPP expenditure responsibilities? Analysis Based on PPP projects during 2010-2018. Public Finance Research, (2019) 8: 49-59. (with Xiaoqin Lu and Feng Wang).
8. The values of good school from the perspective of rent yields discounts: Empirical evidence from the second-hand housing market in Shanghai. Journal of Financial Research, 423 (2016): 97-111. (with Jie Chen and Wei Shi).
9. How do tax policy differentiation on trading links affect housing price: New findings from empirical research of second-hand houses in Shanghai. Public Finance Research, (2016) 2: 79-93. (with Jie Chen and Wei Shi).
10. Local officials and structure of public expenditure in China. World Economic Papers, (2013) 1: 86-103.
11. Performance of officials and the promotion tournament: Evidence from Chinese cities. Economic Research Journal, (2013) 1: 137-150. (with Yang Yao).
WORKING PAPERS
1. Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choices of Public–Private Partnerships: Evidence from China.Public Administration, Revise and Resubmission (2nd round). (with Bin Chen, Feng Wang, Wei Xiong, and Ninghua Zhong).
2. Development stage and facilitating corruption tolerance.
3. Bank loans motivated by local bureaucrats. (with Feng Wang, and Ninghua Zhong).
4. Markets versus Government: Contracting Process and Renegotiation in Public-Private Partnerships in China. (with Mingming Fan and Feng Wang).
GRANTS
National
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China. CNY170,000. 2017-2019.
2. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Rolling Annual Programs). Total CNY137,000. 2013-2020.
Municipal
3. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. CNY90,000. 2020.
4. Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science. CNY40,000. 2014-2016.
University
5. Think Tank Grant of SHUFE. CNY100,000. 2020-2021.
6. PPP Research Center, China Institute of Public Finance, SHUFE. CNY50,000. 2017.
ACADEMIC JOURNAL REVIEWERSHIP
China Economic Review
Cities
Comparative Political Studies
Economic Change and Restructuring
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal of Economic Growth
Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Regional Science
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Publius
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Review of Economic Design
The Economics of Transition
TEACHING
1. Advanced Microeconomics, for master students. Springs 2014 and 2015.
2. Analysis of China’s Macroeconomic Policies, for MBA students, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021.
3. Applied Methods in Public Economics, for Ph.D. Students. Fall 2016, Springs 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
4. Classic Literature in Public Economics, for master students. Fall 2016.
5. Classic Literature in Public Economics, for undergraduate students. Springs 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
6. Intermediate Econometrics, for master students. Fall 2015.
7. Intermediate Econometrics, for undergraduate students. Springs 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
8. Intermediate Macroeconomics, for undergraduate students. Falls 2016, 2017 and 2018.
9. Intermediate Microeconomics, for undergraduate students. Springs 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
10. Public Economics, for International MPA Students. Fall 2019.
11. Public Economics, for Ph.D. Students. Fall 2014.
12. Public Economics, for undergraduate students. Springs 2020 and 2021.
13. Topics on Economics, for master students. Spring 2021.
SERVICE
1. Xi Kezheng seminars (Ph.D. Students), coordinator, 2017-2020.
2. Fenghuang seminars of public finance (invited guest speakers), coordinator, 2018-2020.
3. Inter-university bilateral seminars of public economics, coordinator, 2018-2020.
4. Faculty recruitment at AEA annual meetings, 2017 (Chicago), 2018 (Philadelphia), and 2020 (San Diego).
