Faculty Members
Prof. Ting CHEN
Associate Professor
Associate Head (Research)
Economics Discipline
Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance
Associate Director (Impact), Centre for Sustainable Development Studies
 | tingchen@hkbu.edu.hk |
 | 3411 7546 |
 | WLB 514 |
 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-6128 |
 | Ting CHEN public CV |
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- Development Economics
- Political Economy
- Economic History
- Data Visualization
- Spatial Data
- Network Data
- Text as Data
2015 Ph.D. in Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2011 Mphil. Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2009 MA. Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2008 B.A. Sociology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
How Do Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Water Scarcity? Evidence from the Three Gorges Damwith Chong Liu and Sen Ma, 2026, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, accepted |
On the Right Track? Railroads, Industrial Development, and Distributional Effects in Historical Chinawith Shiyu Bo, Cong Liu, and Yan Zhou, 2026, Journal of Development Economics, accepted |
The Rise of the Chinese Communist Partywith James Kai-sing Kung, 2026, Journal of the European Economic Association, accepted |
Building Tall, Falling Short: An Empirical Assessment of Chinese Skyscraperswith Zhiyang Chen, Yatang Lin, and Jin Wang, 2025, Journal of Urban Economics, 145: 103731 |
China's Commuting-based Metropolitan Areaswith Yizhen Gu and Ben Zou, 2024, Journal of Urban Economics, 144: 103715 |
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China's Primary Land Marketwith James Kai-sing Kung, Li Han, and Jiaxin Xie, 2023, The Economic Journal, 133(649): 70–97 |
The Missionary Roots of Nationalism: Evidence from Chinawith Daniel Mattingly, 2022, The Journal of Politics, 84(3): 1638–51 |
War Shocks, Migration, and Historical Spatial Development in Chinawith James Kai-sing Kung, 2022, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 94: 103718 |
Trade Shocks, Industrial Growth, and Electrification in Early 20th-Century Chinawith Shiyu Bo and Cong Liu, 2022, The Journal of Comparative Economics, 50(3): 732–749 |
Rivals Within: Political Factions, Loyalty, and Elite Competition under Authoritarianismwith Ji Yeon Hong, 2020, Political Science Research and Methods, 9(3): 599–614 |
Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China's Civil Examination Systemwith James Kai-sing Kung and Chicheng Ma, 2020, The Economic Journal, 130(631): 2030–2064 |
Busting the 'Princelings': The Campaigns against Corruption in China's Primary Land Marketwith James Kai-sing Kung, 2019, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(1): 185–226 |
Daily Price Limits and Destructive Market Behaviorwith Zhenyu Gao, Jiabao He, Wenxi Jiang, and Wei Xiong, 2019, Journal of Econometrics, 208(1): 249–264 |
Do Land Revenue Windfalls Create a Political Resource Curse? Evidence from Chinawith James Kai-sing Kung, 2016, Journal of Development Economics, 123: 86–106 |
Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), General Research Fund (GRF), PI, “Populism and Multinational Corporation"(Ref. No. 12502724, 2025.01-2027.12) |
Hong Kong RGC, GRF, Co-I, “From the New World: Sanctions and the Votes of Immigrants"(Ref. No. 16508524, 2025-2027) |
Hong Kong RGC, GRF, PI, “Clan Organizations, Village Elections, and Grassroots Governance in China"(Ref. No. 12500423, 2024.01-2026.12) |
Hong Kong RGC, GRF, PI, “Measuring China’s Technological Changes in the 20th Century, One Book at a Time"(Ref. No. 12503222, 2023.01-2025.12) |
HKBU, Tier-2 Start-up Grant, PI, “The Causes and Consequences of the Low-quality Patent Filing in China"(2020.09-2023.09) |
Hong Kong RGC, GRF, Co-I, “The Rise of Communism in China"(Ref. No. 17505519, 2019-2022) |
Hong Kong RGC, Areas of Excellence (AoE) Project, Co-PI, “Quantitative History of China: Historical Roots of Recent Success and Future Development"Co-PI |
Hong Kong RGC, Early Career Grant, PI, “Telegraph, Railway Network, and the Adoption of Agricultural Technology"(Ref. No. 22502819, 2019.06-2021.12) |
Hong Kong RGC, GRF, PI, “Populism and Multinational Corporation"(Ref. No. 12502724, 2025.01-2027.12) |
HKBU, Tier-1 Start-up GrantPI |
Youth Achievement (Hong Kong and Macau), The 9th Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), the Ministry of Education of the P. R. ChinaCHEN, T. (Recipient), 2024 |
The RES prize for the best paper, Royal Economic SocietyCHEN, T. (Recipient), 2020 |
Faculty/School/the Academy of Visual Arts Performance Award as Young ResearcherCHEN, T. (Recipient), 2019/2020 |
School of Business Young Researcher Award, Hong Kong Baptist UniversityCHEN, T. (Recipient), 2019/2020 |
From Grain to Silver: Tax Reform, Monetary Adoption, and Economic Growth in Ming Chinawith Jiachen Li, Chang Liu, and Chaoqun Zhan, 2026 |
Flick, Click, and Sick: Mental Health Risks of Short-video Platformswith Jiayi Hou, Yankun Kang, and Chang Liu, 2026 |
Sowing Seeds of Mobility: The Gendered Impact of Land Reformwith Jiajia Gu, L. Rachel Ngai, and Jin Wang, 2026 |
The Intellectual Origin of Legal Institution and Modern Bankingwith Chong Liu, Shuang Shi, and Yuling Zhu, 2026, R&R, J. Public Economics |
Digital Footprints and Policing: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Mobile Payment Reform on China's Sex Industrywith Zhaoguang Wang and Yifan Zhang, 2025 |
A Thirst for Silver: Trade Disruption, Currency Shortage, and the Institutional Cause of Riotswith Jianan Li, Chong Pang, and Yuan Zi, 2025 |
Barriers in the Skywith Ziyang Chen and Qiyao Zhou, 2025 |
Political Segregation in Innovation Collaboration: Evidence from the 2016 Presidential Electionwith Robin Kaiji Gong, 2025 |
Going Native: Foreign Firms' Responses to Domestic Boycottswith Shiyu Bo and Cong Liu, 2024 |
Railways, Telegraph and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Diffusion of American Cotton in Early 20th Century Chinawith Chong Liu, Han Qi, and Jin Wang, 2022 |
Commercial Revolution in Medieval Chinawith James Kai-sing Kung, 2022 |
July 2026 - June 2029 Board of Editor of American Economic Review
Sep. 2022 - Present Associate editor of Pacific Economic Review
Sep. 2022 - Present Associate editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics