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Dr. Yang Chen is an Associate Professor in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and has been the Programme Director of Economics and Finance programme from 2016-2019, and the Deputy Director of Research Institute of Economic Integration during 2015-2017. She was mainly responsible for organizing the Conference of Asia and Pacific Economies (CAPE) since 2013 joint with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

She obtained the PhD Degree in Economics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Her research interests mainly include urban economics, public finance, environmental economics, and development issues on Chinese economy.

She has published in internationally renowned journals, such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Economic Letters, Energy Economics, Economic Modelling, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, European Journal of Innovation Management, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, and Urban Studies.

Her research projects have been funded by Provincial Government of Jiangsu on talent agglomeration, by Lincoln Institute on fiscal decentralization, and by Asian Development Bank (ADB) on innovation network. She has also published one book as well as multiple book chapters by internationally renowned publisher.

Qualifications
- PhD , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - 2011
- BA , Henan University, China - 2006
Experience
- Research Fellow, Peking University-Lincoln Insitiute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy - 2013 to 2014
- Research Committee Member, Institute of Leadership and Education Advanced Development (ILEAD), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2013 to Present
- Lecturer, International Business School Suzhou,Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University - 2012 to Present
- Board Member, Jiaxing Feizhi Information Technology - 2012 to Present
- Lecturer, Singapore Institute of Management - 2011 to 2012
- Research Fellow, Lien Chinese Enterprise Research Center - 2008 to Present
Research interests
- Development issues in China
- Environmental economics
- Applied econometrics
- Chinese economy
- Urban economics
- Public economics
Articles
- Song, J., Chen, Y., Luan, F.S. (2023). Air pollution, water pollution, and robots: Is technology the panacea. Journal of Environmental Management. Volume 330, 15 March 2023, 117170. (Tier 1*)
- Luan, F.S., Chen. Y., He, M., Park, D. (2022) Do we innovate atop giants' shoulders? European Journal of Innovation Management, ISSN: 1460-1060. (Tier 1*)
- Luan, F.S., Yang, X.H., Chen, Y., Regis, P.J. (2022). Industrial robots and air environment: A moderated mediation model of population density and energy consumption. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30, 870-888. (Tier 1*)
- He, M., Chen, Y., Marrewijk, C. V. (2021). The effects of urban transformation on productivity spillovers in China. Economic Modelling, 95, 473-488. (Tier 1)
- Rudkin, S., He, M., Chen, Y. (2020). Attraction or repulsion? Testing coagglomeration of innovation between firm and university. Asian Development Bank Economics Working Papers. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/WPS200067-2
- Chai, S., Chen, Y., Huang, B., Ye, D. (2019). Social networks and informal financial inclusion in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 36, 529-563. (Tier 1*)
- Chen, Y., Huang, W. H., Rudkin, S. (2018). Dynamic Fiscal Competition with Public Infrastructure Investment: Austerity and Attracting Capital Inflow. Theoretical Economics Letters, 8 (11), 2522-2541.
- Chen, Y., Fang, Z. (2018). Industrial Electricity Consumption, Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth in Chinese Cities. Economic Modelling, 69 (205), 219, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.09.021. (Tier 1)
- He, M., Chen, Y., Schramm, R. (2018). Technological spillovers in space and firm productivity: Evidence from China's electric apparatus industry. Urban Studies, 55 (11), 2522–2541. (Tier 1*)
- Fang, Z., Chen, Y. (2017). Human capital and energy in economic growth. Energy Economics, 68, 340-358. (Tier 1*)
- Chen, Y., He, M., Rudkin, S. (2017). Understanding Chinese provincial real estate investment: A Global VAR perspective. Economic Modelling, 67, 248- 260. (Tier 1)
- Chen, Y. (2017). Book review of recapturing space: New middle-range theory in spatial demography, edited by Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, Stephen A. Matthews. Journal of Regional Science, 57(3), 540-541.
- Bismark, R.D.K. Agbelie (2017). Heterogeneous Economic Impacts of Transportation Features on Prefecture-Level Chinese Cities. Theoretical Economics Letters, 7 (3), 339-351.
- Chen, Y., Salike, N., Luan, F. S., He, M. (2016). Heterogeneous effects of inter- and intra-city transportation infrastructure on economic growth: Evidence from Chinese cities. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society, 9(3), 571-587. (Tier 1*)
- Chen, Y., Cuestas, J. C., Regis, P. J. (2016). Convergence in Corporate Statutory Tax Rates in the Asian and Pacific Economies. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 21(3), 266-278. (Tier 1)
- Regis, P. J., Cuestas, J. C., Chen, Y. (2015). Corporate tax in Europe: Towards convergence? Economics Letters, 134, 9-12. (Tier 1)
- Chen, Y., Luan, F. S., & Huang, W. H. (2014). The Effect of Government Expenditure on Private Consumption: Evidence from China. Journal of Global Economics, 2 (3), DOI: 10.4172/2375-4389.1000120.
- Chen, Y., Huang, W. H., & Regis, P. J. (2014). Do Asia and Pacific countries compete in corporate tax rates? Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 19 (1), 25-51.
- Huang, W. H., Chen, Y., Song, W. W. (2013). Optimal fiscal equalization under asymmetric information. Journal of Global Economics, 2 (1), doi: 10.4172/economics.1000e103.
Books, monographs, compilations and manuals
- Hung, Juann & Chen, Yang (2018) The State of China's state capitalism: evidence of its success and pitfalls. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-13-0983-0
Chapters, cases, readings and supplements
- Nong, Jin & Chen, Yang (2018). "Corporate Marginal Tax Rate Estimation: Evidence Based on China’s Listed Companies" in (eds) The State of China's State Capitalism, pp.289-310
- Zhang, Ziwei & Chen, Yang (2018). "When Wanda Plaza Comes to the Yangtze River Delta: Will the Land Prices Increase?" in (eds) The State of China's State Capitalism, pp. 95-113.
- Li, Daike&Chen, Yang (2018). "Determinants of the Urban Investment Bonds in China", in (eds) The State of China's State Capitalism, pp.31-53
- Yang, Wenying & Chen, Yang (2018). "Fiscal Decentralization, Yardstick Competition in Determining Chinese Local Governments’ Land Conveyance Behavior", in (eds) The State of China's State Capitalism, pp. 3-30.
- He, Ming&Chen, Yang (2018). "Chinese Infrastructure"in (eds) China in the Local and Global Economy.
- Chen, Yang, He, Ming & Rudkin, Simon (2018), "Macroeconomic Policies in China" in (eds) China in the Local and Global Economy.
- Chen, Y. 2009, 'Institute of Policy Studies' in (eds) 11th Singapore Economic Round Table Report, Softcover, pp.
- Chen, Y. 2004, 'Urbanization of Henan Province' in (eds) Urbanization of Central and Western Regions in China, Henan University, pp.
Conference presentations
- 2019-2020, Local leaders and city innovation. Jiangnan Conference, Suzhou, China-PRC.
- 2018-2019, Spatial colocation of university and firm innovation. Invited Seminar in Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines.
- 2018-2019, Innovation linkage of university and firm. The 7th Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar, Suzhou, China-PRC.
- 2018-2019, Spatial colocation of university and firm innovation. Western Economic Association, Tokyo, Japan.
- 2018-2019, Urban Transformation and Productivity Spillovers: Micro-level Evidence from China. Conference on "The Economic Challenges and Opportunities of Urbanization and Migration in China", Guangzhou, China-PRC.
- 2018-2019, Do We Innovate atop of Giant's Shoulders. Singapore Economic Review Conference, Singapore
- 2017-2018. Institutions and Innovation. The 6th Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar, Suzhou, China-PRC.
- 2008-2009, China Economic Annual Conference / Rethinking tax competition-A trade-off between external brain drain and internal disparity
- 2009-2010, Singapore Economic Review Conference / Endogenous tax competition
- 2009-2010, Public Economic Theory Association Conference / Race to the top or to the bottom
- 2011-2012, Beijing University-Lincoln Institute / Tax Game in Asia
- 2011-2012, Chinese Economists Society Conference / Dynamic tax competition with conditional convergence speed
- 2012-2013, Chinese Economists Society Conference / Tax competition with agglomeration economy
- 2013-2014, 12th EBES Conference / Optimal fiscal transfer under asymmetric information
- 2013-2014, Chinese Economists Society Conference / Tax competition among Chinese provinces
- 2014-2015, Regional Science Association International (RSAI) , Regional Science Association of China (RSAC) and Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society (CJRES) Conference at International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) Xi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University / Heterogeneous effects of inter- and intra-city transportation infrastructure on economic growth: Evidence from Chinese cities
- 2014-2015, Urban and Spatial Economics Workshop / Impact of transport characteristics on the economies of cities in China
- 2015-2016, 2nd HenU / INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics / Chinese Provincial Real Estate Investment: Global VAR Models, Linkages and Forecasting Improvements
- 2016-2017, Small Business Economics Special Issue Workshop / Spatial Interaction, Agglomeration, and Government Spending on Entrepreneurial Performance: Evidence from Micro Data
- 2015-2016, 2016 American Economic Association Annual Conference / Analyzing the impact of Chinese city-Level public capital on local industrial productivity using firm level data
- 2017-2018, Invitation from APJM's Special Issue Paper Development Workshop / Social networks and informal financial inclusion
- 2017-2018, The Fourth International Conference on The Chinese Economy: Present and Future / City Innovation: Agglomeration economy or bureaucratic incentive?
- 2017-2018, 40th IAEE (Internationtal Association for Energy Economics) International Conference / Electricity consumption, Education Expenditure and Economic Growth in Chinese Cities
- 2017-2018, WEA 2018 International Conference, Newcastle, Australia, 1/11-14, 2018 / Human capital and energy in economic growth--Evidence from Chinese provincial data
Grants
- Chen, Y. 2020. Principal investigator. Do We Innovate atop of Giant's Shoulders, funded by Asian Development Bank
- Chen, Y. 2019, Princial Investigator, Is City Innovation Accumulative? Funded by Asian Development Bank
- Marrewijk, Charles 2015, Co-Principal Investigator, Public capital and private sector performance in a spatial framework: Evidence from China, RMB 39,500, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Research Development Fund
- Chen, Y. & Regis, P. 2014, Principal Investigator, Corporate Tax Competition among Chinese Provinces, RMB 65,000, Beijing University-Lincoln Institute Urban Development and Land Policy Research Center
- Chen, Yang, Regis, Paulo & Schramm, Ron 2014, Principal Investigator, Corporate marginal tax rates in China: Estimation and application, RMB 99,750, Xi'an Jjiaotong-Liverpool University Research Development Fund
- Chen, Yang 2013, Principal Investigator, Jiangsu Overseas Ph.D Holder Programme, RMB 150,000,
- Chen, Y. 2012, Principal Investigator, XJTLU Summer Undergradruate Research Funding, RMB 7,500, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University
Professional service activities
- 2020: Reviewer for paper in World Economy
- 2020: Reviewer for paper in Contemporary Economics Policy
- 2020: Reviewer for paper in Research Policy
- 2019: Organizing committee member in the 7th Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar
- 2016-2019: Programme Director of Bsc Economics and Finance
- 2015-2017: Deputy Director of Research Institute of Economic Integration
- 2018: Organizing committee member in the 6th Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar
- 2017: Organizing committee member in the 5th International Seminar on Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar
- 2017: Reviewer for paper in World Economy
- 2017: Reviewer for paper in Regional Science, Policy and Practice
- 2017: Organizing committee member in the 5th International Seminar on Asia and Pacific Economies
- 2016: Organizing committee member in the 4th International Seminar on Asia and Pacific Economies
- 2016: Reviewer for paper in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society (CJRES).
- 2015: Organizing committee member in the 3rd Asia and Pacific Economic Seminar
- 2015: Reviewer for paper in Singapore Economic Review.
- 2014: Organizing committee member in the 2nd Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar
- 2014: Reviewer for paper in Singapore Economic Review
- 2014: Invited seminar given in School of Economics in Henan University
- 2013: Organizing committee member in the 1st Asia and Pacific Economics Seminar
- 2012: Research fellow in Beijing University-Lincoln Institute
- 2009: Rapporteur in the 11th Singapore Economic Round Table
Courses taught
- ECO104 Economic Principles for Business and Markets
- ECO105 Introduction to Business and Economics
- ECO118 Maths for Economics and Business
- ECO205 Econometrics I
- ECO219 Theory of the Firm
- ECO220 Microeconomics II
- ECO601 PhD Supervision
- MAN303 Final Year Project
Awards and honours
- 2014 Talent Agglomeration Plan, Jiangsu Province
- 2013 The best business project awarded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) (Honored by Weiwei Song), Institute of Chartered Accountants
- 2009 Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2008 Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2007 Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2006 Excellent Graduate(given to top 1% students in China), Henan Province
- 2006 First-Prize Academic Excellence Scholarship, Henan University
- 2006 Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2005 Special Award, National University Students English Capacity Competition
- 2005 First-Prize Academic Excellence Scholarship, Henan University
- 2005 Third-Prize, National English Debate and Speech Competition
- 2004 First-Prize Academic Excellence Scholarship, Henan University
- 2004 Outstanding Student Leader, Henan University
- 2003 Excellent Investigator in Social Training Program, Social Training Program in Hanan, China
- 2003 First-Prize Academic Excellence Scholarship, Henan University

电话
+86 (0)51288161178
电子邮件
Yang.Chen@xjtlu.edu.cn
地址
BS328(IBSS Building)
Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District
Suzhou Industrial Park
Suzhou
P.R.China
215123

Yang ChenPh.D

Profile

Qualifications

Experience

Research interests

Articles

Books, monographs, compilations and manuals

Chapters, cases, readings and supplements

Conference presentations

Grants

Professional service activities

Courses taught

Awards and honours