FU, Shihe
	Professor
	Department of Economics
	Email: fushihe@whu.edu.cn
	PhD, Economics, Boston College, USA (2005)
	M.A, Economics, Nankai University, China (1998)
	A.A., Real Estate Management, Hunan City University, China (1993)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Ÿ Teaching Programme: Undergraduate, Graduate, and International Programs.

Ÿ Teaching Focusing: Principles of Economics; Business Statistics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Urban Economics; Labor Economics; Applied Econometrics; Economic Growth; Academic Writing

Ÿ Research Areas: Urban, Regional, and Real Estate Economics; Labor Economics; Environmental Economics; Chinese Economy

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Ÿ 2017.09-2023.07  Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics & School of Economics, Xiamen University, Professor      

Ÿ 2014.02-2017.07  Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Professor

Ÿ 2011.02-2011.01  Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, Associate Professor

Ÿ 2006.08-2010.12  Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Associate Professor

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ÿ 2009.03-2009.08  Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), USA

Ÿ 2016.9-2017.6  Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Center for Real Estate, MIT, USA

MANAGERAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

Ÿ Real Estate Economist, Torto Wheaton Research (Boston), 2005.08-2005.10

CONSULTING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE (GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATE)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

Field top journals:

Ÿ Trans-Boundary Air Pollution Spillovers: Physical Transport and Economic Costs by Distance, with V. Brian Viard and Peng Zhang, Journal of Development Economics 155 (2022), 102808.

Ÿ Air Quality and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China, with V. Brian Viard and Peng Zhang, Economic Journal 131(2021), 3241-3273.

Ÿ Race-specific Urban Wage Premia and the Black-White Wage Gap, with Elizabeth Ananat and Stephen L. Ross, Journal of Urban Economics 108 (2018), 141-153.

Ÿ Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation and Its Determinants: The Case of China’s Building Height Limits, with Jan Brueckner, Junfu Zhang, and Yizhen Gu, Review of Economics and Statistics 99 (2017), 663-677.

Ÿ Corporate Sexual Equality and Firm Performance, with Liwei Shan and Lu Zheng, Strategic Management Journal 38 (2017), 1812-1826.

Ÿ Highway Toll and Air Pollution: Evidence from Chinese Cities, with Yizhen Gu, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 83 (2017), 32-49.

Ÿ The Effect of Beijing’s Driving Restrictions on Pollution and Economic Activity, with V. Brian Viard, Journal of Public Economics 125 (2015), 98-115.

Ÿ Wage Premia in Employment Clusters: How Important is Worker Heterogeneity? With Stephen L. Ross, Journal of Labor Economics 31 (2013), 271-304.

Ÿ Smart Café Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area, Journal of Urban Economics 61 (2007), 86-111.

Other journals

Ÿ Quality of Life in Chinese Cities, with Tie Shi and Wenzhang Zhu, China Economic Review 69, (2021), 101682.

Ÿ Land Conversion Across Cities in China, with Xiaocong Xu and Junfu Zhang, Regional Science and Urban Economics 27(2021), 103643.

Ÿ Do Rural Migrants Benefit from Urban Labor Market Agglomeration Economies? Evidence from Chinese Cities, with Guangliang Yang and Lixing Li, Growth and Change 51(2020), 910-931.

Ÿ Running with a Mask? The Effect of Air Pollution on Marathon Runners’ Performance, with Mengmeng Guo, Journal of Sports Economics 20 (7), 2019, 903-928.

Ÿ Commute Costs and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Satellite Campus, with V. Brian Viard, Journal of Economic Geography 19 (2019), 723-752.

Ÿ The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China, with Yu Liao and Junfu Zhang, Journal of Housing Economics 33 (2016), 59-69.

Ÿ Do Agglomeration Economies affect Local Comovement of Stock Returns? Evidence from China, with Michael Firth and Liwei Shan, Urban Studies 54 (5), 2017, 1142-1161.

Ÿ Searching for the Parallel Growth of Cities in China, with Zhihong Chen and Dayong Zhang, Urban Studies 50 (2013), 2118-2135.

Ÿ Impact Fees and Real Estate Prices: Evidence from Thirty-five Chinese Cities, with Xiaofang Dong and Yufei Yuan, Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013), 207-219.

Ÿ Economic Growth, Local Industrial Development and Inter-Regional Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China, with Puman Ouyang, China Economic Review 23 (2012), 445-460.

Ÿ Testing Urbanization Economies in Manufacturing Industries: Urban Diversity or Urban Size? With Junjie Hong, Journal of Regional Science 51 (2011), 585-603.

Ÿ Information and Communication Technologies and Geographic Concentration of Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from China, with Junjie Hong, Urban Studies 48 (2011), 2339-54.

Ÿ Industry Specialization, Diversification, Churning, and Unemployment in Chinese Cities, with Xiaofang Dong and Guojun Chai, China Economic Review 21 (2010), 508-520.

Ÿ The R&D Survey-Patent Database Link Project, with William Kerr, Journal of Technology Transfer 33 (2008), 173-186. 

Textbooks

How to Write and Publish Economic Research Papers in English, with Judith M. Pereira, in Chinese, Truth & Wisdom (Gezhi) Press, Shanghai, 2012.  

Book Chapter

A Mayor's Perspective on Tackling Air Pollution, with V. Brian Viard, in Handbook of Real Estate and the Macroeconomics, 2022, Charles Ka Rui Leung (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.

Labor Market Agglomeration Economies, in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, in press, Klaus Zimmermann (ed), Springer Nature.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

Ÿ 2022-2025  Transboundary Environmental Pollution, National Science Foundation Grant, CNY480,000 (Grant # 72173105)

Ÿ 2017-2021  The Effect of Air Pollution on Inter-city and International Migration, National Science Foundation Grant, CNY490,000 (Grant # 71773096)

Ÿ 2007-2013 Urban Growth and Real Estate Prices, Key Project Funded by the China Social Science Foundation, CNY120,000.

Corporate-funded grants

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International collaborative grants

Ÿ 2018.02-2019.02  Land Conversion and Misallocation across Cities in China, The Lincoln Institute China Program International Fellowship, Co-PI with Junfu Zhang (Clark University, USA), $US33,000, USA

Ÿ 2004－2005  The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Dissertation Fellowship

Ÿ 2003－2004  The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation

AWARDS AND HONORS

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Editor, 《中国经济问题》 (Chinese journal)，2020-2021

Guest co-editor: Journal of Labor Research (China labor market special issue), 2019

Guest co-editor: Growth and Change (Big data and urban and regional policy evaluation special issue), 2021

Academic Editor: PLOS ONE (SCI), 2018-present

Editorial board member: Growth and Change (SSCI), 2018—present

Associate Editor: China and World Economy (SSCI), 2021—present

Associate Editor: Environment and Economic Development (SSCI), 2021-present

Associate Editor: Journal of Regional Science (SSCI), 2024-Present

REFEREE SERVICES

Ÿ American Economic Review                

Ÿ American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Ÿ Economic Journal                                

Ÿ Journal of Political Economy

Ÿ Journal of Public Economics

Ÿ Journal of Labor Economics              

Ÿ Journal of Urban Economics              

Ÿ Journal of Development Economics    

Ÿ Journal of Environmental Economics & Management

Ÿ Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Ÿ Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Ÿ Journal of Economic Geography

Ÿ Regional Science and Urban Economics

Ÿ Journal of Regional Science

Ÿ Real Estate Economics              

Ÿ China Economic Review                            

Ÿ Environment and Planning A

Ÿ Environmental and Resource Economics

Ÿ Economics of Education Review

Ÿ Labor Economics

Ÿ Papers in Regional Science

Ÿ Urban Studies                                      

Ÿ Journal of Housing Economics

Ÿ Small Business Economics

Ÿ Journal of Economic Policy Reform

Ÿ Journal of Business Ethics                

Ÿ Journal of Public Policy and Marketing

Ÿ Economic Inquiry

INVITED SPEECH AND MEDIA COVERAGE

Invited seminars:

Peking University

Tsinghua University

Renmin University

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics  

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Chinese University of Hong Kong                                

National University of Singapore    

Ohio State University                                                    

University of Nevada, Reno

University of California, Riverside                                

Western Michigan University

MEDIA COVERAGE

Financial Time

Business Weekly (Chinese)

NPR

Slate

Harper’s Magazine

The Christian Post

Wall Street Journal (Southeastern Asia)

La Agencia EFE