Two papers by Associate Professor Qilin Mao were selected as Top Ten Chinese Papers in "National Trade" and "International Finance"

Recently, the paper "Trade Liberalization, Enterprise Growth and Scale Distribution" (in cooperation with Professor Sheng Bin) written by associate professor Qilin Mao of Nankai IIE, published in the World Economics was selected as World Economic Yearbook 2016 "International Trade 2015 Top Ten Chinese Papers of the Year (TOP10)"; another paper "Renminbi exchange rate changes, product ranking and export behavior of multi-product companies-taking Chinese manufacturing companies as an example", published in Management World (with Dr. Jiayun Xu, Professor Jiadong Tong) was selected into the World Economic Yearbook 2016 "2015 Top Ten Chinese Papers in International Finance (TOP10)."

World Economic Yearbook is a central journal, founded in 1979 and sponsored by the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The journal is published by China Social Science Press. Since the 2015 volume, this journal has set up the "Best Papers" column to evaluate the top ten Chinese papers and the ten best English papers of the year's World Economics and various sub-disciplines. All candidate papers should be published in top Chinese journals and English journals. The scores of each paper are calculated based on expert votes (weight 0.3), literature citations (2015-16, weight 0.7) and journal impact factors.