TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Courses: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Finance

Research Areas : Development Economics, Urban Economics and Labor Economics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Professor, 2024.06—

School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, Professor, 2018.01—2024.05

School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, Assoicate Professor,，2013.01—2017.12

School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, Assistant Professor，2012.05—2012.12

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting scholar, University of Pittsburgh, 2017.06—2018.05

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Han Yi, Mingqin Wu*. Inter-Regional Barriers and Economic Growth: Evidence from China. Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167 (2024) 103197

2. Wu Mingqin, Linhui Yu, Junsen Zhang. Road Expansion, Allocative Efficiency, and Pro-competitive Effect of Transport Infrastructure: Evidence from China, Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103050

3. Wu Mingqin, Xun Cao. Greening the Career Incentive Structure for Local Officials in China: Does Less Pollution Increase the Chances of Promotion for Chinese Local Leaders? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 102440.

4. Cai Xiqian, Yi Lu, Mingqin Wu*, Linhui Yu. Does Environmental Regulation Drive away Inbound Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China. Journal of Development Economics, 2016 (123), 73-85.

5.Cao Xun, Mingqin Wu*. Can Centralization of Environmental Regulations Reduce Firm Emissions? Evidence from County-Prefecture Centralization Reforms in China. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, forthcoming.

6. Hanley Douglas, Jiancheng Li*, Mingqin Wu*. High-speed Railways and Collaborative Innovation. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 103717.

7. Xiao Wei, Mingqin Wu*. Life-Cycle Factors and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Rural China. Small Business Economics, 2021 (57), 2017–2040

8. Li Zhigang, Mingqin Wu*. Education and Welfare Program Compliance: Firm-level Evidence from a Pension Reform in China. China Economic Review, 2018 (48), 1-13

9. Li Zhigang, Mingqin Wu*, Bin Chen. Is Road Infrastructure Investment in China Excessive? Evidence from Productivity of Firms. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017(65),116-126.

10. Wu Mingqin*, Bin Chen. Assignment of Provincial Officials Based on Economic Performance: Evidence from China. China Economic Review, 2016 (38), 60-75.

11. Chen Bin, Mingqin Wu*. Industrial Agglomeration and Employer Compliance with Social Security Contribution: Evidence from China. Journal of Regional Science, 2014 54 (4), 586-605.

12. Kalwij Adriaan, Giacomo Pasini, Mingqin Wu. Home Care for the Elderly: The Role of Relatives, Friends and Neighbors, Review of Economics of the Household, 2014 (12), 379-404.

13. Li Zhigang, Mingqin Wu. Estimating the Incidences for Recent Pension Reform in China: Evidence from 100,000 Manufacturers, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013 31(2), 332-344.

14. Li Dongya, Yi Lu, Mingqin Wu. Industrial Agglomeration and Firm Size: Evidence from China, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012 (42), 135-143.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2025

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education, 2024

Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, 2015

Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau Project, 2014

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Associate Editor for International Journal of Finance & Economics, 2024—