Pengfei Han

Dr. Pengfei Han is an assistant professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. His research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, venture capital, firm dynamics, and economic growth. He is currently working on technology diffusion and financial technology in China.

Research Areas

• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Venture Capital
• Firm Dynamics
• Economic Growth

WORKING PAPERS

Financing Ventures (with Jeremy Greenwood and Juan M. Sanchez) NBER Working Paper No. 24808. Intellectual Property Rights and the Theory of the Innovating Firm

WORK IN PROGRESS

• The Mobile Payments Revolution In China (with Zhu Wang)
• International Technology Diffusion and China's Growth Miracle (with Xiaodong Zhu)
• Patent Trading and Corporate Innovation: Evidence From China (with Xuan Tian and Chunrui Liu)
• International R&D Spillovers: from “Made in China” to “Invented in China” (with Salomé Baslandze and Felipe Saffie)
• Venture Capital and China’s Growth Miracle