Recently, Assistant Professor Ying Chen of XMU College of Economics has published the academic paper “The geography of pollution regulation and productivity” in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, an international top journal. Dr. Ying Chen is with the Institute of Economics, School of Economics and the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics at Xiamen University. The paper is in collaboration with Professor Wenjie Wu of Wuhan University and Assistant Professor Yanwen Yun of Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management falls into category A within XMU College of Economics’ own tiered international journal ranking list.

Ying Chen, Ph.D. from London School of Economics and Political Science, focuses her research interests on urban economics. She has published in Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Economic Geography, etc. She presides over research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Fujian Provincial Social Science Foundation.