Jim HuangNan Shen
BSc (LSE), MSc (LSE), PhD ( SOAS University of London),Visiting Post-Doc Fellow(Harvard University)
Overview
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Faculty Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, School of Management, Fudan University
2020. Dec-
Academic Positions
Affiliated Research Associate, The Growth Lab, Centre for International Development, Harvard Kennedy
2021.Jan- School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Research Associate
2020.July-Dec
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
2020. Jan -2020.July
Co-Founder, Board of
Directors
2020.August-
Research Fellow
2019. Dec-
Affiliated Member
2024. May-
The Growth Lab, Centre for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Growth Lab, Centre for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Key Areas: Development Economics, Political Economy,
Industrial Organization, Regional Economics
Supervisor and Host: Professor Ricardo Hausmann and Dr Frank Neffke
Note: After I completed my PhD viva in Oct of 2019, I moved to Harvard University to conduct my post-doctoral research in the end of December of 2019.
Core China Research Center, School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra.
Research Institute of Chinese Economy(RICE) , Fudan Unversity
China Center, University College London (UCL)
Education
Doctoral Studies
PhD in Development
Economics
2017 Sep-2020 July
University of London (SOAS), London WC1H 0XG
PhD Thesis Title: “The Dynamics of Reforms of Large State-Owned Enterprises in
China - A Theoretical and Political Economy Analysis”
PhD Thesis Online Link: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35124/
Key Areas: Development Economics, Industrial Organisation, Political Economy
Chinese Economy,Structural Transformation of Developing Countries
Supervisors: Professor Dic Lo, Professor Pasquale Scaramozzino, Professor Mushtaq
Khan
PhD Examiners: Prof. Saul Estrin (LSE) and Dr. Bruno Randolph (UCL)
Key Courses Taken: Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, Advanced
Econometrics, Chinese Economy, Growth and Development
Note: PhD program start date: Sep. 2017.
PhD viva date: Oct. 2019.
PhD Thesis Approval Date: July. 2020.
Master Studies:
MSc Economics and Management
2016-2017
London School of Economics and Political Science, WC2A 2AE
Master Thesis Title: “A Bilateral Monopoly Model of Profit Sharing in Global Supply
Chains”
Master Thesis Supervisors: Professor Ricardo Alonso and Professor John Sutton
Key Courses Taken: Advanced Microeconomic Analysis, Organizational Economics,
Econometric Methods, Globalization and Strategy, Corporate
Finance Theory, Foreign Direct Investment and Emerging Markets
Undergraduate Studies:
BSc(Hons)Management
2016
London School of Economics and Political Science, WC2A 2AE
Focus on Applied Economics
Department Prize for the Best Examination Performance in Managerial Economics
Best Examination Performance in Further Quantitative Methods in Mathematics
Key Courses: Quantitative Methods in Mathematics, Quantitative Methods in
Statistics, Further Mathematical Methods, Further Quantitative Methods
in Mathematics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial
Economics, Industrial Economics, Game Theory and Organizational
Economics, Behaviour and Experimental Economics, Statistical Models
and Data Analysis, Econometrics, Operational Research, Finance and
Operational Management
Training Courses
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Visiting PhD Student at Institute of Economics, Academic Sinica, August-September, 2018.
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Special Training Workshop, Global Value Chain Institute, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, August, 2018. (Speakers included Professor Pol Antras, Professor ShangJin Wei, etc.)
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Summer School, Advanced Industrial Organization Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science, July. 2018.
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Summer School, Introduction to Econometrics , London School of Economics and Political Science, July. 2019.
IT Skills
Stata, SPSS, EViews, Matlab, Maple, Scientific Workplace, Latex, Python, Microsoft Office
Languages
English (fluent), Chinese Mandarin (native), French (basic)
Awards
Mathematics:
2014: Best examination performance for MA207
(Further Quantitative Methods in Mathematics)
in the second undergraduate academic year (88% in the final exam)
2016: Distinction in the final examination in Probability and Statistics
(Mathematics for Postgraduate Economists at LSE, course code: EC400)
Economics:
2014: Best examination performance for MG207 (Managerial Economics) in the second
undergraduate academic year in the whole department (90% in the final exam)
2014: Department Prize for the Best Examination Performance in Managerial Economics
2021: Contributor, Piece of Entry on ‘‘The State-Owned Enterprises in China’’,
Economics and Business of Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies.(RECS)
2021: The Best Paper Award for ‘‘Unlocking the Myth of Asset Size Expansion in China's
Large SOEs-Theory and Evidences'' The 21th China 's SOE Sector Development Forum
2022: The Best Annual Paper Award for 'Review of Industrial Economics'
2023: The Third Prize for the Excellent Paper of 'Anzi Jie International Trade Research Prize' for the paper Towards a Dynamic Model of Industrial Upgrading with Global Value Chains.
Scholarships:
2018-: SOAS Departmental PhD Research Fund, Department of Economics
2019 (covers all the fees for conferences, workshops and seminars)
2018: Scholarship from Global Value Chain Institute at University of International
Business and Economics, Beijing
2017- Teaching Fellowship at Department of Economics and School of Finance
2019: and Management Studies, SOAS University of London
2017: Travel Grants, Research Institute of China’s Modern SOEs at the Institute of
Economics, Tsinghua University
2019: National Scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) awarded to the
outstanding self-funded oversea Chinese PhD students, Ministry of Education (I
am among the 47 Chinese PhD students in UK who was awarded this national
scholarship in 2020)