Current Students

Chenyu Ma

Supervisors: Chaoyan Wang, Meryem Duygun

Research Interest: Financial Economics, Environmental Economics

Chenyuan YAN

Supervisors: Zhuo (Adam) Chen, Yang Li, Zhirong Yang

Research Interest: Health Economics, Public Health

Hanyu Wang

Supervisors: Xuyan Lou, Xiaoyu Zhang

Research Interest: Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics

Tianyu Sun

Supervisors: Paolo Epifani, Shravan Luckraz

Research Interest: International Trade

Supervisors: Zhenjiang Lin, Chew Lian Chua

Research Interest: Financial Economics and Econometrics

Yining Wan

Supervisors: Sarah Cook, Xuyan Lou

Research Interest: Feminist economics, Gender economy 

Yuqi Duan

Supervisors: Jingong Huang, Chunfei weng

Research Interest: Financial Economics

Yuanqing Sun

Supervisors: Chew Lian Chua, Zhenjiang Lin

Research Interest: Financial Economics, Bayesian Econometrics

Supervisors: Shravan Luckraz, Martin Kaae Jensen

Anru Qiao

Supervisors: Chew Lian Chua, Jingong Huang, Wai Heng Loke

Research Interest: Environmental Economics

Dongjie Tu

Supervisors: Jingong Huang, Yifei Cao, Chunfei Weng

Research Interest: Macroeconomics

Fei Zhao

Supervisors: Zhuo Chen, Yang Li, Qingping Ma

Research Interest: Healtheconomics (with primary focus on public health, health care financing) and applied microeconometrics

Juncheng Zhang

Supervisors: Stuart McDonald, Marcus Roel, Shuo Yang

Research Interest: Environmental economics

Xiaochu Hu

Supervisors: Jingong Huang, Chew Lian Chua, Xiaoyu Zhang

Research Interest: International Macroeconomics, Regional Economics

Working paper: 

• Glushenkova, M. and Hu, X. (2023). Breaking Down Walls: Understanding Regional Convergence Clubs in China's Housing Market. 

Presentation: 

• International Women's Day Conference in Economics, Finance and Management (March 2022)

• The Chinese Economists Society 2022 Annual Conference (June 2022)

• International Conference on Empirical Economics (Aug 2023)

 
Lu Liu

Supervisors: Xuyan Lou, Qian Wang, Simon Appleton, Jenyu Chou

Research Interest: Labour economics

 
Qianyi Huang

Supervisors: Paolo Epifani, Zhenjiang Lin, Yifei Cao

Research Interest: International trade

 
Yu Quan

CFA, CIA

Supervisors: Chaoyan Wang, Lina Song

Research Interest: Financial Economics, Real Estate Finance, Applied Game Theory, PE Fund Portfolio Management, Investor Behaviour

Working paper: 

• “Catch-up Growth Based on International Talent Mobility in an Idea-Based World” with Prof. Hoon Hian Teck, SMU

Presentation:

• “Dance with Uncertainty: Commercial Asset Management in New Cycle”, China Real Estate Forum by Ta Kung Pao 2021

• “How to Break Through in Commercial Real Estate Investment and Financing Market in Post-epidemic Era as Developers and Investors”, China Commercial Properties Forum by ifeng 2020

• “China Midwest Real Estate Market Opportunities and Asset Management Strategy”, Land and City Development Conference by Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) 2019

• “Asset Enhancement Techniques—a Case Study of Lujiazui Office Building (Hywin Centre)”, Investment Experts Conference by Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2019

• “Investment Strategy for PE Funds in China New Economy”, Blue Whale Finance Forum by Shanghai United Media Group and Cailian Press 2019

• “City Cluster Effects and Niche Real Estate Market Opportunities in China”, interview by China Fortune, Xinhua News Agency 2019

• “How Can China Private Capital Participate in PPP”, The 3^rd China Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Financing Forum by China PPP Centre, Ministry of Finance, China and Shanghai Financial Association, 2017

• “Commercial Properties as Key Asset Allocation for PE Funds”, China Commercial Properties Acquisition Forum by Real Estate Professionals Association China (REPA) and DTZ 2017

• “Asset Securitization: Opportunities and Challenges from PE Fund Managers’ Perspective” Lujiazui Asset Securitization Forum by Shanghai Stock Exchange, Asset Management Association of China and Shanghai Financial Association 2017

• “China Real Estate Acquisition Trend”, The 5^th Global Real Estate Finance Forum by China Business Network (CBN), 2016

• “Private Capital Supports Yangtze River Delta”, The 6^th Value Real Estate Annual Conference by National Business Daily, 2016

 
Yiying Li

Supervisors: Chang Liu, Long Wen

Research Interest: Tourism economics

 
Yuan MENG

Supervisors: Chew Lian Chua, Yifei Cao, Jenyu Chou

Research Interest: Macroprudential Policies, Bank Competition, Financial Stability

Yue LI

Supervisors: Chang Liu, Long Wen

Research Interest: Tourism economics

Zuwei Xie 

Supervisors: Chang Liu, Long Wen

Research Interest: Tourism Economics, Tourism Demand Forecasting, Tourism Impact Assessment

Working paper: 

• The Path to Carbon Neutrality in 2050: Energy Innovation Investment and Renewable Energy in OECD

Rutendo Happy Jonga

Supervisors: Yifei Cao, Xuyan Lou, Simon Appleton

Research Interest: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics: Agriculture and Food Value Chains, Food Security, Climate Change

Working paper: 

• Jonga, R. H., Delin, H., Belford, C., & Ahmed, Y. N. (2021). To be or not to be a win-win situation, as Zimbabwe diversifies its agricultural exports in the Chinese market: The GTAP dynamic approach. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 13(2), 106-118.

Presentation: 

• To Be or Not to Be A Win-Win Situation, As Zimbabwe Diversifies Its Agricultural Exports in the Chinese Market: The GTAP Static Approach; at the Symposium on “Small-holder Farms in Market Integration___ Lessons and Experiences from South and East Asia” held at Nanjing Agricultural University in China from 10 to 14 November, 2019.

Xuening Cheng

Supervisors: Zhuo Adam Chen, Xuyan Lou, Lina Song, Qingping Ma

Research Interest: Health economics, particularly related to telehealth and its effect on health behaviours and health inequalities for population group

Working paper: 

• The longer-term effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on behaviour change for female sex workers in Senegal

 
Zengbao Hu

Supervisors: Stuart McDonald, Xiaoyu Zhang

Research Interest: Environmental Economics, Empirical Economics, China Economy

Josephine Frempong

Supervisors: Chew Lian Chua, Eric Opoku, Nana Kufuor

Research Interest: International Macroeconomics, Applied financial economics (Modelling the spread of financial crisis)

 Chengxue Huang

Supervisors: Molin Li, Zhenjiang Lin, Yang Li

Research Interest: Health Economics

Jingyi Shen

Supervisors: Chew Lian Chua, Xuewen Qian, Chen Qu

Research Interest: Game theory, Financial economics 

Puhua (Jasmine) Zhao

 
Supervisors: Chaoyan Wang, Jingong Huang, Meryem Duygun

Research Interest: Financial economics

Kai Tse

Supervisors: /

Research Interest: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics