Faculty and Staff

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Areas: Western Economics, Monetary Finance, Monetary Economics, International Financial Theory, Research on Regional Financial Development

Research Areas: Financial Development Theory and China's Practice, Financial Innovation and Regional Economic Development

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Finance, School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, since September 2022

Professor, Institute of Central China Development, Wuhan University, April 2010 – August 2022

Associate Professor, Professor, and Deputy Dean, School of Economics, South-Central University for Nationalities, June 2002 – March 2010

Postdoctoral Researcher in Management Science and Engineering, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, May 2006 – July 2008

Lecturer, Business School, Zhengzhou University, July 2000 – May 2002

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

?Chen Zhigang, Gong Yifei and Meng Qiangyue et al. Can Digital Finance Boost Regional Innovation? From the Perspective of Resource Mismatch in China, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2024(11):1-15

?Zhang Yuqi,·WangHaisen and Chen Zhigang(corresponding author) et al. Digital Finance and Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from China, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023(10):1-23

?Chen Zhigang and Meng Qiangyue et al. How Rural Financial Credit Affects Family Farm Operating Performance: An Empirical Investigation from Rural China, Journal of Rural Studies, 2022(91):86-97

?Chen Zhigang and Meng Qiangyue et al. The Analysis of Family Farm Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors: Evidence from Rural China, Land,2022,11,487

?Chen Zhigang and Zhang Yuqi et al. Can Green Credit Policy Promote Low-carbon Technology Innovation, Journal of Cleaner Production,2022(7):1-16

?Chen Zhigang and Zhang Ying et al. Has Financial Access Improved Agricultural Technical Efficiency? – Evidence from Two Family Farm Demonstration Zones in China，China Agricultural Economic Review, 2021(9):1-23

Journal Papers (Domestic)

?Chen Zhigang, Guo Xiayue, Analysis of the Threshold Effect of Financial Development on Energy Consumption, China Population, Resources and Environment, 2018, Issue 6.

?Chen Zhigang, Jiang Sihao, The Contributions of Annie Krueger to Development Economics, Economic Perspectives, 2018, Issue 9.

?Chen Zhigang, Xia Surong, The Impact of the International Financial Crisis on Poverty in China: An Empirical Estimate Based on the Economic Growth Channel, World Economic Research, 2014, Issue 8.

?Chen Zhigang, Wu Teng, Gui Li, Is Financial Development a Driver of Urbanization? Empirical Evidence from Provincial Panel Data of China (1997-2013), Economist, 2015, Issue 8.

?Chen Zhigang, Guo Shuai, A Review of Research on the Impact of Financial Development on Total Factor Productivity Growth, Economic Perspectives, 2012, Issue 8.

?Chen Zhigang, Wang Wanjun, Financial Development and Income Distribution: 1986-2005, Finance and Trade Economics, 2009, Issue 5.

?Chen Zhigang, Zhang Ying, Has Rural Finance Promoted the Scale Operations of Agriculture in China? Agricultural Economic Problems, 2022, Issue 5.

?Chen Zhigang, He Huiyi, Financing Channels and Regional Technological Innovation in China: An Empirical Study Using Provincial Panel Data, Science and Technology Progress and Countermeasures, 2019, Issue 4.

?Chen Zhigang, Wang Wanjun, Research Dynamics on the Impact of Financial Liberalization on Poverty, Economic Perspectives, 2008, Issue 8.

?Chen Zhigang, A Review of Research on the Impact of Financial Crises on Income Distribution, Economic Perspectives, 2007, Issue 2.

?Chen Zhigang, Central China Rising: How to Face New Challenges? Theory Exploration, 2012, Issue 5.

?Chen Zhigang, Wang Xiaoxia, The Impact of Financial Development on Regional Urbanization in China, Economic and Geographical Dimensions, 2016, Issue 5.

?Chen Zhigang, Wu Teng, How Do Financial Development and Urbanization Interact? An Empirical Study Using Provincial Panel Data from 1997-2014, Journal of South-Central University for Nationalities (Social Science Edition), 2017, Issue 1.

?Chen Zhigang, Li Xiaofeng, Does Economic Centralization Hinder Financial Development? Empirical Study Based on Provincial Panel Data of China, East China Economic Management, 2017, Issue 6.

?Chen Zhigang, Wu Guowei, Does Local Government Debt Promote Regional Economic Growth? Modern Finance and Economics, 2018, Issue 3.

?Chen Zhigang, A Review of Research on Capital Account Liberalization, Economic Perspectives, 2005, Issue 8.

?Chen Zhigang, How to Measure Financial Development: A Discussion on the Divergence Between Financial Development Theory and Empirical Research, Shanghai Economic Research, 2006, Issue 7.

?Chen Zhigang, The Rational Sequence and Gradual Arrangement of Financial Opening in Developing Countries: Theory and Its Application in China, Jiangxi Social Sciences, 2005, Issue 1.

?Chen Zhigang, Shi Wenming, Financial Development, Human Capital, and the Urban-Rural Income Gap: An Empirical Study Based on Provincial Panel Data from China, Journal of South-Central University for Nationalities (Social Science Edition), 2008, Issue 2.

?Chen Zhigang, Fiscal Constraints and Reforms from the Perspective of Financial Openness, Shanghai Economic Research, 2005, Issue 8; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Finance and Taxation (200602).

?Chen Zhigang, Financial Liberalization and Income Distribution: Theory and Experiences from Developing Countries, Shanghai Economic Research, 2006, Issue 1; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - New Perspectives (200602).

?Chen Zhigang, Financial Crises and Income Distribution: Channels of Impact and Implications for China, Journal of South-Central University for Nationalities (Social Science Edition), 2007, Issue 4; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Finance and Insurance (200712).

?Chen Zhigang, The Development of Small and Medium Banks and the Reform of China’s Deposit Insurance System, Journal of South-Central University for Nationalities (Social Science Edition), 2006, Issue 4; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Finance and Insurance (200611).

?Chen Zhigang, Wu Guowei, Zhang Hao, How Does Real Estate Bubble Affect Investment in the Real Economy? Financial Science, 2018, Issue 3; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Socialist Economic Theory and Practice (201807).

?Chen Zhigang, Guo Shuai, Stage Division and Measurement of China’s Economic Transformation, Journal of South-Central University for Nationalities (Social Science Edition), 2016, Issue 2; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Socialist Economic Theory and Practice (201608).

?Chen Zhigang, Chen Qibo, How Does Option Incentive Affect Corporate Innovation? An Analysis of the Role of Executives and Key Employees in R&D Innovation, Economic and Management Review, 2020, Issue 11; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Investment and Securities (202106).

?Chen Zhigang, Yan Haicheng, Rural Finance and Infrastructure Investment in Family Farms: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis Using Micro Data, Agricultural Technical Economics, 2020, Issue 11; Reprinted in Renmin University of China Copy Materials - Agricultural Economic Research (202104).

Monography

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development: Theory, Empirics, and Policy (Sole Author), Economic Science Press, 2004.

Research on the Order and Speed of Financial Opening in Developing Countries (Sole Author), Hubei People's Publishing House, 2007.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

National Social Science Foundation Key Project: Financial Development and Technological Innovation: Theory and Chinese Experience (13AJL005), Principal Investigator

National Social Science Foundation General Project: Financial Development and Income Distribution: Theory and Empirical Evidence from China (07BJL020), Principal Investigator

National Social Science Foundation Youth Project: The Rational Sequence and Gradual Arrangement of Financial Opening in Developing Countries: Theory, Empirical Analysis, and China's Choices (04CJL017), Principal Investigator

Ministry of Education Key Research Base Major Project: Research on Rural Financial Innovation in the Process of Coordinated Urban-Rural Development (17JJD790017), Principal Investigator

Ministry of Education Key Research Base Major Project: Research on China's Economic Structure and Transformation of Economic Development Mode (12JJD790002), Principal Investigator

Ministry of Science and Technology National Soft Science Research Project: Research on the Path of Capital Account Opening and National Financial Security (2005DGQ4B100), Principal Investigator

Ministry of Science and Technology National Soft Science Research Project: The Impact of the International Financial Crisis on Poverty in China and Policy Options (2010GXS5B138), Principal Investigator

Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Planning Project: Pathways and Quantitative Measurement of the Impact of Financial Liberalization on Poverty in China (11YJA790015), Principal Investigator

Ministry of Education Major Tackling Project: Research on China's Economic Development Mode in the Post-Financial Crisis Period (10JZD0016), Subproject Leader

National Development and Reform Commission Tender Project: Thoughts and Countermeasures for Accelerating the Development of China's Special Poverty-Stricken Areas (2010-26-24), Principal Investigator

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Project: Theoretical Research on the Path Selection of Capital Account Opening in Developing Countries (20060390248), Principal Investigator

Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation Project: Research on Financial Development and Urban-Rural Income Gap in Hubei Province (2007074), Principal Investigator

Wuhan University "Post-70s" Team Project: Research on Financial Development and the Rise of Central China, 2011-2013, Project Leader

Wuhan University Humanities and Social Science Research Project: The Impact of Financial Liberalization on Poverty in China and Its Pathways, 2010-2011, Principal Investigator

Corporate-funded grants

Hubei Provincial Macroeconomic Research Institute Project: Research on Theoretical and Practical Innovation in Targeted Assistance, 2013-2014, Principal Investigator

State Grid Hubei Branch Research Project: Research on the Impact of Transmission-Distribution Separation and Distribution-Sales Separation on Company Operation and Management Control, 2018-2019, Principal Investigator

Development and Reform Commission of Wangjiang County, Anhui Province Project: Wangjiang County's 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Characteristic Industries, 2020-2021, Principal Investigator

AWARDS AND HONORS

Advanced Individual in the "Three All-Round Education" System of Hubei Province, 2007

Leader of the Outstanding Academic Team of "Post-70s Scholars" at Wuhan University, 2016

Research Report：The Practical Conditions and Path Selection of China's Financial Opening (Sole Author), published in the National Social Science Foundation Achievement Bulletin, 2006, Issue 48

Monograph Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development: Theory, Empirics, and Policy (Sole Author), awarded the Third Prize for Outstanding Social Science Research Achievements in Wuhan, 2007

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China

MEMBERSHIPS, CERTIFICATIONS

Council Member, China Soft Science Research Association

Council Member, China Regional Science Association

Council Member, Development Economics Branch, Chinese Society for the Study of Foreign Economic Theories