Zheng (Michael) Song
Distinguished Adjunct Professor
| Research Area Macroeconomics, Chinese Economy and Political Economy.
Personal Website https://michaelzsong.weebly.com/ Contact Information |
Biography
Prof. Song is a professor at the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the director of CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University and special-term professor at School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University. Before joining CUHK, he was an associate professor of economics at Chicago Booth. Prof. Song is a co-editor of China Economic Review and associate editor of Econometrica and Journal of European Economic Association. His research focuses on Chinese economy and macroeconomics. His papers appear on leading academic journals including American Economic Review and Econometrica. In 2013, he won Sunyefang Economic Science Award.
Current Positions
Special-term Professor, ShanghaiTech University, School of Entrepreneurship and Management, July 2018 - present
Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics, 2014 - present
Co-Director, CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, 2017 - present
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management, 2016 - present
Co-Editor, China Economic Review, 2017 - present
Previous Positions
Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, 2013 - 2015
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, 2011 - 2013
Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics, 2009 - 2011
Research Fellow, Fudan University, School of Economics, 2005 - 2010
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies, September 2005.
-Ph.D. student, University College London, Department of Economics, 2002 - 2004.
-Ph.D. student, Fudan University, Department of Economics, 2000 - 2002.
M.A. (Economics), Fudan University, Department of Economics, January 2000.
B.A. (Economics), Shanghai Institute for Foreign Trade, Department of Economics, June 1997.
Selected Publications
Growing like China, (with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti), American Economic Review, 101(1): 196-233, February 2011
Persistent Ideology and the Determination of Public Policies over Time, International Economic Review, 53(1): 175-202, February 2012
Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt (with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti), Econometrica, 2012, 80(6): 2785-2804, November 2012
Financial Frictions on Capital Allocation: A Transmission Mechanism of TFP Fluctuations (with Kaiji Chen), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60(6): 683-703, September 2013
House Price Dynamics with Dispersed Information (with Giovanni Favara), Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 149(1): 350-382, January 2014.
Sharing High Growth across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China (with Kjetil Storesletten, Yikai Wang and Fabrizio Zilibotti), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7(2): 1-39 (Lead Article)
Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small: The Transformation of the State Sector in China (with Chang-Tai Hsieh), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2015, Spring, 295-346
The Long Shadow of China's Fiscal Expansion (with Chong-En Bai and Chang-Tai Hsieh), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2016, Fall, 129-165.
