Dongfang Hou

Dongfang (Julia) is an Assistant Professor at Renmin University of China (RUC). Her major field of research is Public Economics with a special focus on peace and conflict studies. Prior to joining RUC, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Economics from The University of Texas at Dallas and she was supervised by Dr. Todd Sandler there.

EDUCATION

• 2014-2019 Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas
  Economics​

• 2014-2019 M.S., The University of Texas at Dallas
  Economics​

• 2013-2015 M.S., Beijing Jiaotong University
  Applied Statistics

• 2009-2013 B.A., Beijing Jiaotong University
  Finance

RESEARCH FIELDS

• Peace and Conflict Economics, Terrorism Studies, Public Economics

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Peace and Conflict Economics, Political Economics, Terrorism Studies, Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Game Theory, Statistics

TEACHING

• Introduction of Peace Economics (M.A. level)
• Principles of Macroeconomics (B.A. level)
• Game Theory (M.A. level)(in English)
• Global Collective Action (M.A. level)