Welcome to my site. I'm in search of a new faculty position as I plan to leave PKU in the summer of 2016 when my contract expires. Though I love PKU very much - its School of Economics provides an amazing research environment and I get to know some of my best friends among the faculty and students here - I don't want to expose my family to Beijing's air pollution. The concern grew stronger after my son was born last year. I've informed my school dean of the decision. I will be at AEA in San Francisco for job interviews. If your department is interested in hiring an applied theorist, please consider me as a suitable candidate. I'd be very glad to meet you and your colleagues. To contact me, please email: leminwu@outlook.com, or call me at 510-621-8821 (US) / (+86)185-0103-8616 (China).
Experience
- 2003~2007 B.S. in Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
- 2007~2013 Ph.D. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- 2013~ Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University
Fields of Interest
- Primary interests: Economic History, Economic Growth, Political Economy
- Secondary interests: Development, Chinese Economy, Culture, Industrial Organization
Teaching
- As instructor @ PKU: World Economic History (both graduate and undergraduate levels), Intermediate Macroeconomics
- As TA @ Berkeley: Principle of Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Economics, Special Topics in Economics, and Graduate-level Microeconomics
Research * marks the most representative studies
The Very Long Run Economic Growth
- Was Malthusian Trap Truly Malthusian? An Empirical Test of the Luxury-Subsistence Duality (coauthored with Liuyan Zhao)
- * If Not Malthusian, Then Why? (JMP; under review)
- Entertaining Malthus: Bread, Circuses and Economic Growth (under review; coauthored with Rohan Dutta, David K. Levine and Nicholas Papageorge)
- The Diversity of Culture and the Monotony of Life
- * Institutional Selection and the Tipping Point of History (coauthored with Haojun Xie and Yue Zhu; for a 15-min Chinese podcast that presents this research, click here)
Political Economy
- * The Economics of Etiquette Law: Sustaining Political Order by Mandatory Respect
- Confucius's Secret: How Was China Governed? (a book in progress)
- Free Voice as a Bayesian Equilibrium: A Study of the Remonstration System in Ancient Chinese Court (coauthored with Yue Zhu; Chinese manuscript - English version coming soon)
Institution and Economic Growth
- Slavery and Free Labor Market: An Economist's Definition
- * Good Governance under Autocracy: from Ancient Song to Modern China
- Financial Repression, Entrepreneur Supply and Economic Growth (coauthored with Tianshi Mu)
Monetary Economics
- Counterfeiter Paradox: Who Defended Monetary Stability in the Ancient World? (coauthored with Sheng Qian)
Industrial Organisation
- Loyalty and Durability: Evidence from the Opening of Toothpaste Tubes (coauthored with Yuheng Zhao)
Awards
- 2014 First Prize and Best Lecture Notes Prize: The 13th Young Faculty Teaching Competition of Peking University
- 2015 First Prize: The 2nd National Universities Micro-Teaching Competition of Beijing
- 2015 Second Prize and Best Performance Prize: Beijing Young Faculty Teaching Competition
- 2015 Second Prize: National Micro-Teaching Competition
Referee
Journal of Economic Growth, Economic Journal, European Review of Economic History, Journal of Comparative Economics, China Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics
Reference
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George Akerlof
Koshland Professor of Economics 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley Email address: akerlof@econ.berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 642-5837 Joel Mokyr
Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History Department of Economics Northwestern University Email address: j-mokyr@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5693 |
David K. Levine
John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics Department of Economics Washington University St. Louis Email: david@dklevine.com Phone: (314) 935-5648 Gerard Roland E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley Email: groland@econ.berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 642-4321 |
Students Supervised
- Hao Sheng （盛浩）, 2014 class, Yuanpei College, PKU
- Tianshi Mu （慕天实）, 2015 class, School of Economics, PKU
- Sheng Qian （钱盛）, 2015 class, School of Economics, PKU
- Yue Zhu （朱悦）, 2016 class, School of Economics, PKU
- Haitian Lv （吕昊天）, 2016 class, School of Economics, PKU
- Haojun Xie （谢昊君）, 2017 class, Yuanpei College, PKU
