Zexuan liu

Zexuan liu

Assitant Professor in Economics

I Study Digital Economy, Crime, and Firm Responses to Shocks

"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." — W. Edwards Deming

🛰️ Research

🗂️ Chinese Online Job Posting Dataset

I maintain a large-scale dataset that links online job postings to firm registration records:

💰 Funding

The Impact of Automation and Artificial Intelligence on the Unincorporated Firm’s Market Entry, Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation of China, #72103098, 2021–2024.

📑 Selected Publications

  1. Computerization and the Decline of Unincorporated Self‑Employment, with Yao‑yu Chih & Sun Lee, Journal of Human Capital (2024).
  2. The Puzzle of Change in Employment and Wage in Routine‑Intensive Occupations, with Pallab Ghosh, Empirical Economics (2023).
  3. Incumbents’ Pricing and Non‑pricing Responses to Entry in Vertically Differentiated Markets, with Christoph Bauner, Journal of Air Transport Management (2022, lead article).
  4. Heterogeneous Price Effects and Increased Price Dispersion from Quantity‑based Congestion Management, with Haojun Yu & Sun Lee, Economic Inquiry (2021).
  5. Effects of Motherhood Timing, Breast‑milk Substitutes and Education on the Duration of Breastfeeding: Evidence from Egypt, with Pallab Ghosh & Firat Demir, World Development (2020).
  6. Ownership and Pricing Response to Entry, Economics Letters (2019).
  7. Do State Minimum Wages Affect the Incarceration Ratio?, with Pallab Ghosh & Gary Hoover, Southern Economic Journal (2019).
  8. Coauthorship and the Gender Gap in Top Economics Journal Publications, with Pallab Ghosh, Applied Economics Letters (2019).

📝 Working Papers

  • The Safety Perceptions in Determining Transportation Cost Elasticity, with Yao‑yu Chih & Sun Lee — submitted.
  • Vertical Connection by Data: Evidence from Job Postings in China, with Zhiyuan Chen & Yao‑yu Chih — submitted.
  • Data Technologies, Branch Expansions and Turnovers: Evidence from Job Postings in China, with Zhiyuan Chen & Xiangyu Feng.
  • Data Intensity and Public Safety (in Chinese), with Chong Peng & Weizeng Sun.

🚧 Projects in Progress

  • Airline’s Response to Temporary and Permanent Shocks, with Qihong Liu & Davide Proserpio.

🎓 Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Oklahoma, 2016 (Norman, USA).

📅 Conferences

  • 2024: AMES, CES (China Economist Society), ESIF Economics and AI+ML
  • 2023: CES (China Economist Society), Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe), NSF PI Meeting, China Economics Annual Conference, 3rd CCER-NCER Chinese Economics, 2023 Symposium on AI and Digital Economics
  • 2019: AEA, International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), WEA
  • 2018: AMES, SEA, IO Mini Workshop (SHUFE), China International Conference in Macroeconomics
  • 2017: AEA, SEA, IO Mini Workshop (SHUFE)
  • 2016: International Industrial Organization Conference (Rising Star Session, IIOC)
  • 2015: SEA

🛠️ Skills & Tools

🐍 Python · 📊 Stata · 📄 LaTeX

🗣️ Languages

Chinese (native) · English (proficient)

📚 Teaching

  • Econometrics — Nanjing Audit University (Fall 2021–2024)
  • International Investment & Risk Control — Nanjing Audit University (Fall 2021)
  • Data Analysis — Tianjin University of Finance & Economics (Spring 2018)
  • Modelling & Data Analysis — Tianjin University of Finance & Economics (Fall 2017)
  • Principles of Macroeconomics — University of Oklahoma (2013–2015)

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