Zhang Jun (economist)
Zhang Jun is a Chinese economist and currently serves as Dean of School of Economics at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Career
Zhang is the founding Director of the China Center for Economic Studies, a Shanghai-based Think-Tank for Chinese economy. He is also a member of special advisory committee to Shanghai Municipal Government. In July 2015, he was one of the three economists selected for face-to-face dialogue with Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing.Zhang also publishes widely. Recent contributions have been to The World Economy, China Economic Review, Economic Systems, Comparative Economic Studies, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, etc. In January 2018, he was rewarded the Bergson Prize by the American Association for Comparative Economic Studies for his paper published in Comparative Economic Studies in 2015. Also in 2015, along with Justin Yifu Lin and Fan Gang, he was awarded the Prize of China Economics Innovation.
Over the past 25 years he has authored or edited numerous books including Economic Transition with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Reform and Opening Up, Transformation of the Chinese Enterprises, Unfinished Reforms of the Chinese Economy, and End of Hyper Growth In China. He has been on the editorial board of about 25 academic journals including Economic Systems, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, East Asia Policy, Journal of Pro-Poor Economics, China Social Sciences Review, China Economic Quarterly, China Economic Journal, China: An International Journal, and editor-in-chief of Fudan Economic Papers.
Books
Books written by English:- End of Hyper Growth in China
- Wages in China: An Economic Analysis
- Unfinished Reforms of the Chinese Economy
- Transformation of the Chinese Enterprises
- Economic Transition with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Economic Reform and Opening Up
- An Introduction to Market Analysis and Forecasting
- Crisis, Reform and Transformation
- Race to the Top: Understanding the Mechanism of China's Economic Development
- An Economic Analysis of Wage Determination in China
- Selected Papers of Zhang Jun
- Story-Telling of Chinese Economy
- China Transformation with Characteristics
- Economic Reform, Transition and Growth: Observation and Explanation
- The Unknown Chinese Reforms
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Truth for Growth
- Ten Papers of China Economy
- Transformation Path for Chinese Enterprises
- Race for Growth: The Political Economy of China Economic Growth
- Transformation, Governance and Evolution of Chinese Private Firms
- Understanding China's Economy
- Capital Formation, Investment efficiency and Economic Growth in China
- China’s Industrial Reforms and Economic Growth
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Entrepreneurship, Financial Institutions and Innovation
- Economics of Teams
- Comparative Economic Systems
- China's Economics Reforms, Retrospects and Prospects
- Economics of Dual-Truck System: China's Economic Reform: 1978-1992
- An Economic Analysis of Privileges
- Modern Corporations: Theory and Experience
- Theory of Property Rights
Selected referred articles
- "Asymmetric reform bonus: The impact of VAT pilot expansion on China's corportate total tax burden", China Economic Review, 2017, Vol.46, 17-34.
- "Tax Burden, Regulations and Development of Service Sector in China", Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade, 2018, online publishing
- "The Future is in the Past: Projecting and Plotting the Potential Rate of Growth and Trajectory of the Structural Change of the Chinese Economy for the Next 20 Years", China and World Economy, 2015, Vol 23, No.1, 21-46.
- "The Power Structure of Revolutionary Organizations and Political Transition", Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2016, Vol.14, no.1, 1-18.
- "Re-estimating Chinas' Underestimated Consumption", Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, Vol.57, no.1, 55-74.
- "Zhu Rongji Might Be Right: Understanding the Mechanism of China's Fast Economic Development", The World Economy, 2012, Vol.35, no.12, 1712-1732.
- "The evolving pattern of the wage–labor productivity nexus in China: Evidence from manufacturing firm-level data", Economic Systems, 2013, Vol.37, no.3, 354-368.
- "Guanxi and Entrepreneurship in Urban China", Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2012, Vol.17, no.2, 315-331.
- "Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Industrial Transformation in China", China Economic Review, 2011, Vol.22, 133-150.
- "China Trade Policy Review: A Political Economy Approach", The World Economy; 2010, Vol 33, no.11, 1390-1413.
- "Declining Labor Share: Is China's Case Different", China and World Economy, 2010, Vol.18, no.6, 1-18.
- "Term Limits and Rotation of Chinese Governors: Do They Matter to Economic Growth?", Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2008, Vol.13, no.3, 274-297.
- "Introduction-The Political Economy of China's Robust Economic Performance", Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2008, Vol.13, no.3, 255-259.
- "Estimation of China's Provincial Capital Stock Series with Application", Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2008, Vol.6, no.2, 177-196.
- "The Financial Deepening-Productivity Nexus in China:1987-2001", Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2007, Vol. 5, no.1, 37-50.
- "Investment, Investment Efficiency and Economic Growth in China", Journal of Asian Economics, 2003, 14, 713-734.
- "The Impact of China’s Economic Development on the Global Economy", China Economist, 2009, no.18, January-February, 80-92.
- "Fiscal Expenditure Efficiency of Local Governments in China:Empirical Research on Thirty Years of Reform", Social Sciences in China, May, 2009, Vol.30, no. 2.
- "Market Size, Scale Economies, and Pattern of Loss-making in China’s State Industry", East Asian Review, 2000, no.4, March, 3-28.
- "Growth in Industrial Output in Post-reform China: Dual Pricing and Competitive Fringe",, East Asian Review, 1998, no. 2, 1-17.