TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Programme : Economic History, Intermediate Macroeconomics

Teaching Focusing : History of Economic Thoughts

Research Areas : Economic History, Financial History, Development Economics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2015-2019: Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

2031-2015: Postdoc Research Fellow, Tsinghua University, School of Social Science

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

“Social Norms and Household Savings Rates in China”，Yvonne Jie Chen, Zhiwu Chen and Shijun He，Review of Finance，2019.9

“The historical origins of earnings management: a geographical discontinuity design based on the Great Wall”，Gao, M., Gu, Q., He, S., & Kong, D， Journal of Accounting Literature，2024.

“The long-run effects of the imperial bureaucracy—Two tales along the Great Wall of Ming China”, Ming Gao，Qianku Gu，Shijun He，Dongmin Kong，Asia-Pacific Economic History Review,2023.7

“Financial development and money market integration in Qing China, 1800–1911”，Du, S., He, S., Huang, G., & Kong, D.，Finance Research Letters, (2024) 63.

“Legal Environment and Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Geographic Discontinuity Design based on the Great Wall in China” , Ming Gao，Qianku Gu，Shijun He，Dongmin Kong, Finance Research Letters, 2023.5

"Impacts of China's differential electricity pricing on the productivity of energy-intensive industries.",Zheng, Xuemei, Chengkuan Wu, and Shijun He, Energy Economics, 2021.2.

"Impacts of market segmentation on the over-capacity of the thermal electricity generation industry in China." , Zheng, Xuemei, Chengkuan Wu, and Shijun He. Journal of Environmental Management , 2021.2.

"Place-based policies, administrative hierarchy, and city growth: Evidence from China." , Gao, Ming, Qiankun Gu, and Shijun He, Economic Modelling ,2022.12.

Journal Papers (Domestic)

“Financial Development Promotes Market Integration—Evidence from Piaohao Establishment and Grain Market in the Qing Dynasty”，Shuai Shuai Du，Shijun He，Guitian Huang，China Economic Quarterly，2024.8

“The Flow of Silver and Economy under Ming and Qing Dynasties:A Global Perspective of Literature Review”，Hua Guo，Shijun He，Journal of Financial Research，2023.4

“Weather Shocks， Transport Conditions and Social Conflicts:Evidence from the Qing Dynasty of China ( 1736-1910)”， Yang Cai, Jinsong Zhao, Shijun He, Economic Science,2022.1

“Re-estimation of Transport Costs and Grain Market Integration in Early Qing Dynasty: Quantitative Evidence from the Nature Experiment of the Second Jinchuan Campaign”, Shijun He, Yang Cai, Ming Gao, Economic Science,2020.8

“Women as Insurance Assets in Traditional Society—Evidence from Wife/Concubine Selling in Qing Dynasty”, Zhiwu Chen, Shijun He, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng, China Economic Quarterly, 2018.10

“Custom and Contract Governance: A Quantitative Analysis on the Pricing of Land Deeds from Shanxi Province in the Qing Dynasty”, Shijun He, Fangfang Wen, Journal of Peking University( Philosophy and Social Sciences),2018.7

“The Trend of China’s Intergenerational Income Mobility:2000-2009”,Shijun He, Guitian Huang, Journal of Financial Research,2013.2

“Intergenerational Network, Administrative Power of Father, and Children’s Income”, Shijun He, Guitian Huang, Economic Science,2013.4.

“Structure Distortion and China’s Money Puzzle—Perspective of Financial Repression”, Guitian Huang, Shijun He, Journal of Financial Research,2011.7.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

2021, National Science Foundation Grant #7217030466: “The Long-run Effects of Bureaucracy History: Causality, Persistant Mechanisms, and Policy Implication” (￥450,000)

2019, MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Liberal arts and Social Sciences Foundation #19XJC790007: “Clan History, Social Norms, and Asset Allocation of Chinese Family: Theory and Evidence”(￥80,000)

2014,Postdoc Research Fund “Financial Development, Old Age Support Choice and the Change of Society” (￥80,000)

Corporate-funded grants

2018,Yonyou Foundation, “The Contracts and Organizations in Salt Industry in Zigong under Qing Dynasty” (￥300,000)

AWARDS AND HONORS

“Custom and Contract Governance: A Quantitative Analysis on the Pricing of Land Deeds from Shanxi Province in the Qing Dynasty”, Second Prize of the Best papers in quantitive history awarded by Nandu Foundation

“Structure Distortion and China’s Money Puzzle—Perspective of Financial Repression”, the Best Paper of Journal of Financial Research in 2011.