Professor Info

Title

Assistant Professor

Speciality

Econometrics Bayesian Econometric Methods Nonparametric/Semiparametric Econometric Methods Machine Learning Methods FinTech Productivity and Efficiency Analysis Financial Institutions

Academic BG.

• Doctor of Philosophy (Economics), Monash University
• Master of Applied Econometrics, Monash University
• Bachelor of Business (Economics), Queensland University of Technology

Experience

Journal Papers

1. Shadow Prices of CO2 Emissions at U.S. Electric Utilities: A Random-Coefficient, Random-Directional- Vector Directional Output Distance Function Approach (with Guohua Feng and Serletis Apostolos), 2018, Empirical Economics 54, 231–258.
2. Why European Banks are Less Profitable than U.S. Banks: A Decomposition Approach (with Guohua Feng), 2018, Journal of Banking & Finance 90, 1–16.
3. Estimation of Inefficiency in Stochastic Frontier Models: A Bayesian Kernel Approach (with Guohua Feng and Xibin Zhang), 2019, Journal of Productivity Analysis 51(1), 1–19.
4. Determinants of Profitability of Community Banks in the U.S.: A Cost Frontier Based Decomposition Approach (with Guohua Feng), 2021, Empirical Economics 60, 2969—2992.
5. Impacts of Carbon Emission Reduction on Provincial Green Total Factor Productivity (with Qianni Peng and Wenjin Tang), 2022, Scientific Decision Making (CJCPKU) 04, 94–113.
6. How Mitigation Efforts Moderate the Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Efficiency: A Preliminary Analysis from China (with Kai Du and Qianni Peng), 2022, Applied Economics Letters, DOI:10.1080/13504851.2022.2124227.
7. Climate Change, Carbon Emission Reduction and Total Factor Productivity (with Qianni Peng and Tianping Ma), 2022, (accepted, Statistics & Decision (CJCPKU)).
8. Climate Change and Urban Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Capital Cities and Municipalities in China (with Li Chen, Bin Jiang), 2022, 2023, Empirical Economics 64, 401-441.
9. Productivity Convergence in Manufacturing in the Eurozone: A Hierarchical Panel Data Approach (with Guohua Feng and Bin Peng), 2025, (forthcoming, Macroeconomic Dynamics).

Conference Papers

1. A Bayesian Approach to Modeling Economic Growth: Variable Selection and Cross-Sectional Dependence (with Subal C. Kumbhakar and Guohua Feng) (R& R Journal of Econometrics)
2. The Effects of Chinese Carbon Emissions Trading System on Green Total Factor Productivity: A Decomposition Approach (with Bin Jiang, Guohua Feng and Qianye Liu) (submitted to, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management)
3. Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Technical Efficiency in China: A Robust Non-parametric Frontier Analysis (with Chang-Chih Chen, Bin Jiang) (R& R Journal of Productivity Analysis).
4. Is China’s banking sector more profitable than its American counterpart? A decomposition approach (with Xubei Lian).
5. Absorptive Capability and Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from China’s Silicon Valley (with Hao Xu).
6. The Influence of Banking ESG Performance on Corporate Green Productivity: Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector (with Guohua Feng and Qianye Liu).
7. Optimizing Bayesian Rank Selection in Panel Data Learning: Insights from China’s Manufacturing Sector (with Bin Jiang).
8. Sieve Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Stochastic Frontier Models (with Kai Du and Chaohua Dong).
9. Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Stochastic Frontier Model: A Sieve Approach (with Kai Du and Chaohua Dong).
10. Hedging Climate Risk: Evidence from Customer Policy (with Chang-Chih Chen, Bin Jiang).
11. Estimation of Technology Heterogeneity: A Dirichlet Mixture Stochastic Frontier Model (with Guohua Feng).
12. A Dynamic DEA to the Directional Technology Distance Function: The Case of European Banks from 2001 to 2015 (with Guohua Feng and Tissa Galagedera).

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