Professor Yong Wang is Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Before joining PKU, he worked at the Department of Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the World Bank. Yong obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His main research fields are Economic Growth, Macro Development, China and India's Economy, and New Structural Economics. He publishes academic papers on journals including Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Monetary Economics, and is an author of eight books including Thoughts and Debates on New Structural Economics (Peking University Press). Yong currently serves as a co-editor for China and the World Economy (SSCI) and Latin American Journal of Central Banking. He also serves as Secretary General of the New Structural Economic Research Alliance, Consultant of the World Bank, and Research Associate of Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, Vice Chairperson of China’s Development Economics Association. He is a young Changjiang scholar from the Ministry of Education since 2025. He is a recipient of the First Prize of National Academic Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Chinese Universities by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), the Inaugural Peikang Chang Young Scholar Award in Development Economics (2018), China Young Economist Award (2017), Franklin Best Teaching Award at HKUST(2014), and the Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Price Theory at the University of Chicago (2004).  

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Contact Information:

Phone: 86-10-62750658

Fax: 86-10-62768934

Email Address: yongwang@nsd.pku.edu.cn

Personal Website：yongwangecon.com

 

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Haolin Li, Sirui Cheng, Xiuping Hua, and Yong Wang. (2025). The Mitigating Effects of Blockchain Adoption on Supply Chain Financing Disruptions under Crises: Evidence from China. China Economic Review, 94, 102502.(SSCI)【PDF】

2. Xiuping Hua, Yong Wang, Junjie Xia and Haochen Zhang, (2025). Industrial Policy, Congruence, and Innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”. Research Policy, 54(8): 105298. (SSCI)【PDF】

3. Zhoubo Xia, Xiuping Hua, Yong Wang, and Jiadong Peng (2025). Leading or Facilitating?——The Appropriate Role of Governmental Venture Capital in China. Research in International Business and Finance, 76: 102807. (SSCI)【PDF】

4. Jiani Fan, Xiuping Hua, Miao Wang, Yong Wang and Huayi Zhang (2025). The Impacts of U.S. Section 337 Investigations on Chinese Technology Firms. Research Policy, 54(5): 105210.（SSCI）【PDF】

5. Xiuping Hua, Haolin Li, Yong Wang (2025), China's International Environment and Development Challenges, China Economic Journal, 18(1), 37-57. (ESCI)【PDF】

6. Jianwei Hu, Xiuping Hua, Haolin Li, Yong Wang and Huayi Zhang. (2025). Fintech and home bias: The power of new social capital in innovative entrepreneurial financing. The British Accounting Review, 101636. (SSCI)【PDF】

7. Wanning Li, Xiuping Hua, Agyenim Boateng, Yong Wang, Min Du (2025), The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms' Access to Trade Credit, British Journal of Management, 36(3), 1023-1038 (SSCI)【PDF】

8. Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine, Yong Wang and Lijun Zhu (2024), A Theory of the Dynamics of Factor Shares, Journal of Monetary Economics, 148: 103610. (SSCI)【PDF】

9. Jiani Fan, Xiuping Hua, Miao Wang, and Yong Wang (2024), Female Venture Capitalists on Boards and Firm Innovation in China, European Journal of Finance, 30(10), 1049–1072. (SSCI)【PDF】

10. Yong Wang (2023), Editorial Guide: Structural Change and New Structural Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 64, 70-72. (SSCI)【PDF】

11. Justin Yifu Lin and Yong Wang (2020), Structural Change, Industrial Upgrading and Middle-Income Trap, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 20(2), 359-394.  【PDF】

12. Justin Yifu Lin and Yong Wang (2019), Guest Editorial of the Special Section on New Structural Economics and Its Applications in Agricultural Development, China Agricultural Economic Review 11(3), 450-451. (SSCI) 【PDF】

13. Yong Wang (2019), A Model of Industrialization and Rural Income Distribution, China Agricultural Economic Review 11(3), 507-535. 【PDF】

14. Yong Wang (2015), A Model of Sequential Reforms and Economic Convergence, China Economic Review 32, 1-26. (lead article) 【PDF】

15. Jiandong Ju, Justin Yifu Lin, and Yong Wang (2015), Endowment Structure, Industrial Dynamics and Economic Growth, Journal of Monetary Economics 76, 244-263. 【PDF】

16. Yong Wang (2013), Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies, and Foreign Direct Investment, Journal of Development Economics 103, 107-123. 【PDF】

17. Xiao Ke, Justin Yifu Lin, Caihui Fu, Yong Wang, Transport Infrastructure Development and Economic Growth in China: Recent Evidence from Dynamic Panel system-GMM Analysis, Sustainability, 2020, 12(14): 5618. 【PDF】

18. Yong Wang (2022), Market Structure, Factor Endowment, and Technology Adoption, Research in International Business and Finance, Volume 63, 101787, 1-31. (SSCI)【PDF】

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Role of Government and Industrial Policies, in China 2049, Bookings Institution Press, 2020

2. Remodeling Structural Change (with Justin Yifu Lin), in Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation, Oxford University Press, 2019

3. How to Reform SOEs under China’s State Capitalism (with Julan Du), in Unfinished Reforms in Chinese Economy, 1st. Chapter, Edited by Jun Zhang, World Scientific Publishing Ltd (Singapore), 2013

4. The State as a Facilitator of Innovation, (with Xiuping Hua), in The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm, Edited by G. Wood, A. Cuervo-Cazurra, P. Sun, I. Okhmatovskiy, and A. Grosman, Oxford University Press, 2022