Chunru Zheng
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Personal Website: www.chunruzheng.com
FIELDS of INTERESTS
International Trade, Spatial/Urban Economics
Applied Microeconomics, Macro-Labor Economics
EDUCATION
University of Virginia Charlottesville, U.S.
• Ph.D. Candidate in Economics Expected: May, 2025 Committee: John McLaren: *****@********.*** Kerem Cosar: *****.*****@********.*** James Harrigan: *****@********.*** Eric Young: ****@********.***
• Ph.D.-MSDS in Data Science 2022 - 2023
Peking University Beijing, China
Master in Economics, National School of Development (CCER) 2017-2020 Remin University of China Beijing, China
Bachelor in Economics, Economic School 2013-2017
JOB MARKET PAPER
Local Land Allocation and Demographic Transitions across Time and Space [Draft] Presented at UVa Huskey Conference, the 6th GSIPE conference; Schduled for the 18th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, SEA 94th Annual Meeting, 2nd Summer Meeting in Urban Economics, China; Discussed at 2024 NBER Summer Institute International Trade & Investment Meeting, the 1st Interna- tional Economics Annual Workshop at NC State University, the 7th Mid-Atlantic International Trade Workshop. WORKING PAPERS
• Bidding for Firms or Bidding for People: Local Urban Land Allocation Competitions in China, with Qiaohairuo Lin. [Draft]
Presented at the 13th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, Schduled for SEA 94th Annual Meeting, 2nd Summer Meeting in Urban Economics, China
• Notching Foreign Equity Share with Corporate Income Tax Cuts: Tax Subsidy and Multina- tional Joint Venture’s Ownership Structure, with Phil Huan and Rui Zhang. Under Review. [Draft] Presented at ASSA 2024 Annual Conference, the Empirical and Structural Trade Workshop 2023 at Shang- hai University of Finance and Economics, the Trade Workshop at Central University of Finance and Eco- nomics.
• China’s Retaliatory Tariffs against the US: Firm Import-Export Linkage along Global Pro- duction Line, with Wei Tian and Miaojie Yu. Under Review. [Draft] Presented at the 20th Anniversary of Hitotsubashi-Gakushuin Conference on International Trade and FDI 2023,
• Incomplete Protectionism along Global Value Chains: the Effects of China’s Processing Trade during the Trade War, 2023. with Nan Liu, Wei Tian and Miaojie Yu. Under Review. Presented at the 60th Anniversary of Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, Special Edition for China Economic Review.
Publications
• The Impacts of US-China Trade War: An overview, with Nan Liu, Wei Tian and Miaojie Yu. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, forthcoming.
• The Effects of China’s Retaliatory Duties during the China-US Trade War, 2022. with Wei Tian and Miaojie Yu, China Economic Quarterly, 22 (06), 2042-2062. Work in Progress
• Re-optimize State Subsidy Competition in the U.S. under Work-from-Home Mode, with Qiao- hairuo Lin.
• Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization, Firm Innovation and Patent Similarities: Evidence from China, with Phil Huang.
Other Research and Professional Experience
Teaching Assistant
• 2024: ECON3720 Introduction to Econometrics (UVa)
• 2023: ECON3410 Economics of Sustainability and the Environment (UVa)
• 2023: ECON3010 Intermediate Micro Economics (UVa)
• 2018: International Economics and Development, Principles of Economics (PKU) Research Assistant
• 2019: Gaurav Khanna (University of California San Diego)
• 2018-2019: Bo Zhao (Peking University, China)
HONORS and AWARDS
• 2022: Dean’s MS-PhD Fellowship in Data Science
• 2019: Excellent Teaching Assistant Award at Peking University
• 2018: Community Contribution Award at Peking University SKILLS
Programming Python, R, Matlab, Stata, SQL, HTML, GIS
• Thesis for MS in Data Science: Operationalizing Incomplete Historical Data: Uncovering Meaning. with Rachel Grace Treene and Ami Kano. [Github]
• Term Paper for Texting Analysis: Patent Similarities Exploration. with Phil Huang. [Github] Languages Mandarin(Native), Cantonese(Professional).