Qinghua Zhang

Dr. Qinghua Zhang is now Professor at the Department of Applied Economics in Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She graduated from Wuhan University where she received her bachelor's degree in economics. She received her Ph.D in economics from Brown University in 2002. She visited London School of Economics and Political Science during 2015-2016, and the Department of Economics in University of Texas-Austin between 2002 and 2004. She was also short-term consultant for the World Bank in 2017, 2006, 2005 and 2004.

Dr. Zhang's research interests include Urban economics, Public Finance, Search and Matching, and Applied Econometrics. She has published in leading economic journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics and Journal of Econometrics. She has been invited to give presentations at many international academic conferences.

Education Background

• 2002 Brown University Economics
  
• 1995 Wuhan University Economics
  
• 1993 Wuhan University Economics
  

Career Experience

• 2019 - Present Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Beijing University
• 2015 - 2016 Visitng scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science
• 2007 - 2018 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Beijing University
• 2004 - 2007 Assistent Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Beijing University
• 2004, 2005, 2006, Short-term Consultant, World Bank
• 2002 - 2004, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Texas –Austin

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• "Market Thickness and the Impact of Unemployment on Housing Market Outcomes," with Li Gan and Pengfei Wang, accepted, Journal of Monetary Economics
• “Housing Investment in Urban China: Evidence from China’s Urban Household Survey Data,” with Yujin Cao and Jidong Chen, forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics
• “Roads, Railroads and Decentralization of Chinese Cities,” with Nate Baum-Snow, Vernon Henderson, Loren Brandt and Matthew Turner, 2017, Vol. 99(3), pp435-448, Review of Economics and Statistics
• "To build above the limit? implementation of land use regulations in urban China," with Hongbin Cai and Zhi Wang, 2016, Vol (98), Special Issues on Urbanization in Developing Countries: Past and Present, pp223-233, Journal of Urban Economics
• “House age, price and rent: Implications from land-structure decomposition,” with Yangfei Xu, Siqi zheng and Guozhong Zhu, 2016, Journal of Real Estate Economic and Finance
• “The Rising demand for subway after private driving restriction: Evidence from Beijing's housing market,” with Yangfei Xu and Siqi Zheng, 2015, Regional Science and Urban Economics

“Fundamentals in China’s Urban Housing Markets: Land Supply, Hukou Population, and Housing Price Appreciation,” with Zhi Wang, 2014, Journal of Housing Economics * “China’s Land Auctions: Evidence of Corruption?” with Hongbin Cai and Vernon Henderson, 2013, Rand Journal of Economics * “Regional Inequality in Contemporary China,” with Heng-fu Zou, May 2012, Annals of Economics and Finance * “Returns to Education, Productivity, and Economic Growth in China,”with Heng-fu Zou, 2007，Vol9（3），pp 293—308 Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis * “A Micro-foundation of Local Business Cycles,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007，Vol 37 (5), pp 568-- 601 * “The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations,” with Li Gan, 2006, Journal of Econometrics, Vol 133 (1), pp 127--152
* “Multiple-Object Auctions around a Circle,” 2004, Topics in Theoretical Economics, 4,
* “Distortionary, Non-Distortionary, and Distributional Properties of Environmental Taxes: Extension of Sandmo’s Observation,” with Talbot Page, 2006, Annals of Economics and Finance

Papers in Chinese

• “How to Secure Public Housing---Sorting Equilibrium in a Search-Matching Framework,” with Zhi Wang and Botong Zhang, 2014, forthcoming, China Journal of Economics
• “Discriminative College Admission Polices and the Welfare Loss,” with Yuming Liu, July 2005, China Economics Quarterly
• “Health, Education, and Endogenous Growth,” with Jianfang Yang and Liutang Gong, November 2005, China Management Science
  

WORKING PAPERS

• “Transport Infrastructure, Urban Growth and Market Access in China,” with Nate Baum-Snow, Vernon Henderson, Loren Brandt and Matthew Turner, 2017.
• "To Build Outward or Upward: the Spatial Pattern of Land Development in Urban China," with Zhi Wang and Li-an Zhou, 2017.R&R
• “Who marries Whom in a Surging Housing Market,” with Ang Sun, 2018
• “Valuing primary schools in urban China: Attendance boundary discontinuities and housing transaction prices,” with Jimmy Chan, Xian Fang, Zhi Wang and Xianhua Zai, 2018
• "Land Use Regulation and the Intensive Margin of Housing Supply," with Ya Tan and Zhi Wang, 2017
• “Political Budget Cycles and incentive role: Evidence from Chinese prefectures,” with Liutang Gong, Brian Knight and Jie Xiao, 2018.
• “User behaviors affecting influence power in an onlin esocial netwrok: Evidence from Chinese Sina Microblog data ,” with Ya Tan and Hansheng Wang, 2015
• “Incomplete Information and the Lead-Lag Relationship between the growths of Temporary Help Employment and Permanent Employment: a Cross-city Analysis,” with Yukako Ono, 2014