The paper “When the levee breaks: the impact of floods on educational outcomes in China” co-authored by Zenghe Huang, a Ph.D. student of regional economics at the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, and his academic supervisor Associate Professor Xiaofang Dong, has recently been published in the Journal of Development Economics, a top journal of development economics, which ...
2024 Xiamen University International Workshop on Experimental Economics HeldOn December 21-22, the 2024 Xiamen University International Workshop on Experimental Economics was held in the Economics Building. The two-day workshop attracted over sixty scholars from over 30 universities at home and abroad. They gathered in Xiamen to share the latest research in the field of experimental economics.There ...
Faculty Member Zichang Wang Published Online in Journal of Economic TheoryRecently, a paper entitled “Informativeness orders over ambiguous experiments”, independently authored by Assistant Professor Zichang Wang from Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and Department of Economics, School of Economics, Xiamen University (XMU), has been published online in Journal of Economic ...
On November 25, the 2024 Workshop on Recent Advances in Panel Data Analysis, Microeconometrics and Applied Microeconomics was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University (XMU). The workshop was co-organized by XMU Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics Research, the Centre for Forecasting Science at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy...
In recent days, Associate Professor Lina Meng and Professor Yinggang Zhou from XMU College of Economics, in collaboration with Associate Professor Pengfei Liu from the University of Rhode Island and Associate Professor Yingdan Mei from Renmin University of China, have published a paper entitled “Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity” in the Journal of Development E...
Recently, the paper “Multivariate Spatiotemporal Models with Low Rank Coefficient Matrix” was accepted by and published online in the Journal of Econometrics, a top international journal in economics and statistics. The paper is authored by Dan Pu, a PhD graduate of the class of 2023 from the Department of Statistics and Data Science of XMU School of Economics, in collaboration with her XMU s...
Mathematician and Educator Shing-Tung Yau Paid a Visit to XMU College of EconomicsOn the morning of November 18, Shing-Tung Yau, a famous mathematician and educator, visited the College of Economics of Xiamen University, and gave a lecture on “Thoughts on the training and promotion of outstanding talents” at room N402 which was packed with audience.Prof. Shing-Tung Yau gave an in-depth analys...
The first SMU-XMU Econometrics Conference (2024), a joint workshop on econometrics between Singapore Management University (SMU) and Xiamen University (XMU), was held on November 15-16 at SMU. A 12-member group of faculty from XMU College of Economics participated in this conference and had an exchange with their counterparts from SMU School of Economics. Prof. Yongmiao Hong from the University...
On November 8, the 13th National Conference on Probability and Statistics kicked off in Xiamen. Focusing on “Frontier Development of Probability and Statistics for the Era of Artificial Intelligence”, the conference attracted nearly 800 experts and scholars in the field of probability and statistics from universities and research institutes at home and abroad. Participants made wonderful pres...
Dr. Michael Lokshin, Lead Economist with the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank, delivered a lecture titled “Age Policy Index” in the Economics Building of Xiamen University on the afternoon of November 5. This was the 10th lecture of the Fubon Economics and Finance Lecture Series initiated by XMU College of Economics.
