Education

2016 – 2019 Ph.D. in Economics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

2014 – 2016 M.A. in Economics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

2012 – 2014 M.A. in Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

2008 – 2012 B.S. in Economics, Northeastern University, Liaoning, China

Research Interests

Development Economics; Political Economy; Applied Econometrics; Chinese Economy

Employment

2019 – Assistant Professor at School of Economics, Nankai University

Honors, Scholarships and Grants

2014 – 2019 Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship

2017 – 2018 Ph.D. Students Research Supporting Fund of GSE, Kyoto University

2013 Outstanding Graduate Student of Renmin University of China

2012 Merit Student of Liaoning Province

2012 Outstanding Graduate of Northeastern University

2010 National Scholarship of the Ministry of Education of China

2009 National Scholarship of the Ministry of Education of China

Publications

• How Does Anti-corruption Affect Corporate Innovation? Evidence from Recent Anti-

corruption Efforts in China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 498–519 (with

Go Yano)

• Can Corruption Really Function as “Protection Money” and “Grease Money” ? Ev-

idence from Chinese Firms. Economic Systems, 2017, 41(4), 622–638 (with Dongyang

Zhang and Go Yano)

• Does Government Subsidy Affect Firm Survival? Evidence from Chinese Manufactur-

ing firms. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2018, 55(11), 2628-51 (with Dongyang

Zhang)

Working Papers

Gang Xu 2

• Does Privatization Work for Zombie State-owned Enterprises? Evidence from Chinese

Industrial Firms, with Ruiting Wang.

• Anti-corruption, SafetyComplianceandMiningAccidents: EvidencefromChina, joint

with Liu Q., Wang R., Yano G. and Zou R., R&R requested at the Journal of Comparative

Economics.

Research in Progress

• Geography of the One-child Families: From Rotten Kids to Rotten Parents (with Ruit-

ing Wang)

• Separation Cost and Children Welfare Revisited: Theory and Evidence from China

(with Ruiting Wang)

Presentations at Conferences and Seminars

2018 Sep. The Rise of China: 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up and Implications for Other

Economies, Fudan University, Shanghai

2018 Sep. 18th China Young Economists’ Forum, Renmin University, Beijing

2018 Sep. Roundtable Seminar of Economics, Capital Uiversity of Business and Economics, Beijing

2018 Jan. Asian Economic Development Seminar, Kyoto University, Kyoto

2017 Sep. The 57th Conference of Japan Association of Comparative Economic Studies, Kansai

University, Osaka

2017 Aug. The 5th China Conference on Organizational Economics, Shanghai University of Inter-

national Business and Economics, Shanghai

2015 May. Asian Economic Development Seminar, Kyoto University, Kyoto

Professional Activities

Referee for Applied Economics, Economic Systems, Economic Modelling, Journal of Institutional

Economics, Singapore Economic Review, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, Scientometrics