Wang Hui

Dr. Hui Wang is an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He is the associate director and research fellow of the Institute of Economic Policy Research of Peking University (IEPR-PKU). Dr. Hui Wang holds a PhD and Master degree in Economics from University of Toronto. His research interests include Industrial organization, Labour economics, Economic development, and Applied econometrics. His teaching include Managerial Economics, Chinese Economy, Principles of Economics, Advanced Microeconomics, and other professional training courses.

Research Areas

• Industrial organization
• Labour economics
• Economic development
• Applied econometrics

Education Background

• 2010 University of Toronto Economics
  
• 2004 University of Toronto Economics
  
• 2002 Peking University Thai Language and Culture, and Economics
  

Career Experience

• 2016 ~ present Associate Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• 2010~2016 Assistant Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• 2011-present Associate Director, Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR), Peking University
• 2012-2014 (April-June) Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford Program in Beijing, Peking University, China

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• “Bank Expansion after the Riegle-Neal Act: the Role of Diversification of Local-market Risk,” with Victor Aguirregabiria and Robert Clark, 2016, RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 47, Issue 3, pp 529–572
• “Quantifying the Impacts of Limited Supply: The Case of Nursing Homes,” with Andrew Ching and Fumiko Hayashi, 2015, International Economic Review. Volume 56, Issue 4, pages 1291–1322,
• “Substitution Effects in Parental Investments,” with Loren Brandt and Aloysius Siow, 2015, Journal of Population Economics, Volume 28, Issue 2, pp 423-462. (Winner of the Kuznets Award for Best Paper in Journal of Population Economics, 2015)
• "Union Impacts on Compensation and Its Forms in China", with Morley Gunderson and Byron Lee, 2016, International Journal of Manpower, Volume 37, Issue 4 pp. 606 - 627
• “On the Inefficiency of Complete Outlawing of Tobacco Advertisements”, 2002, China Economic Quarterly, Vol.1, No.4, pp. 969-976 (in Chinese)
• “Impacts of Railway Construction during Late Qing and Early Republican China on the Long-term Economic Development”, with Se Yan and Chong Liu, 2014, China Journal of Economics, Vol.1, No.3. pp. 1-20. (in Chinese)
• “The Abolition of Agricultural Taxes, Fiscal Centralization and Rural Public Goods”, with Boxiao Zhang, 2015, China Journal of Economics, Vol.2, No.1. pp. 79-95. (in Chinese)

WORKING PAPERS

• “Demographics and Entrepreneurship,” with James Liang and Edward Lazear, 2014, NBER Working Paper No. 20506. (under review)
• “Consumer Valuation of Retail Networks: Evidence from the Banking Industry”, with Andrew Ching, 2016, working paper.
• “The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China”, with Yuyu Chen and Se Yan, 2014, working paper.
• “How do Households Respond to Income Shocks: Evidence from Urban China from 1992 to 2003”, with Yuyu Chen and Yana Huang, 2013, working paper.