Name: Yin Heng
Position: Professor
Address: Room 1149, Lide Building
Phone number: 62515312
E-mail：yheng@ruc.edu.cn
Specialties: Public Finance, Empirical Industrial Organization
Education Background
Ph.D., Wuhan University, Economics, 2001
M.A. Hunan College of Finance and Economics, Economics, 1998
B.A. Wuhan University, Economics, 1990
Career
2016.8 – Now, National Academy Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China, Professor
2015 – 2016, School of Business, Zhongnan University, Dean, Professor
2010 – 2011, Boston University, Economics, Visited Scholar
2003 – 2014, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, Instructor, Associated Professor, Professor, Vice Dean
2001 – 2003, Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Postdoctoral Research
1990 – 1996, Changsha Municipal Bureau of Township Enterprises, Department of Enterprise Management
Publications
Academic Journal (selected)
“Alleviating Labor Market Power: Minimum Wage as a Policy Instrument,” (With Li Hui, Zou Xianqiang, and Li Amber Yao) Management World, 2024(11), pp.104-118. (in Chinese)
“Business Environment, Transaction Costs and Survival of Micro and Small Enterprises,” (With Lin Chao and Liu Shengyu) Journal of World Economy, 2024(9), pp.183-207. (in Chinese)
“The Evolution of Chinese Labor Share and Drivers based on Manufacturing during 1998-2016: A Micro Perspective,” (With Zhang Daoyuan and Li Hui) Journal of Financial Research, 2024(7), pp.152-169. (in Chinese)
“Labor Market Power in Chinese Manufacturing: Identification and Estimation in a Non-Neutral Technological Change Environment,” (With Li Hui and Zhang Daoyuan) China Industrial Economics, 2024(8), pp.24-42. (in Chinese)
“Alleviating Poverty Like China: Evidence from the Poverty Alleviation and Development Plans,” (With Li Hui and Zhang Ziyao) Journal of World Economy, 2024(7), pp.179-204. (in Chinese)
“Policy Mix Matters: Does Tax Reduction Affect the Exit of Small and Micro Enterprises?” (With Lin Chao) Finance and Trade Economics, 2024(7), pp.23-39. (in Chinese)
“Why Tax Reduction Policies Cannot Mitigate the Small and Micro Enterprises' Financial Burden,”(with Ma Kaili) Economic Perspectives, 2024(6), pp.81-96. (in Chinese).
“Elasticity of Factor substitution, Biased Technological Progress, and Rising Labor Share: A Micro Perspective,” (With Zhang Daoyuan and Li Hui) Finance and Trade Economics, 2024(1), pp.141-157. (in Chinese)
“Identification and Estimation of the Direction of Technological Change of Chinese Manufacturing,” (With Li Hui and Zhang Daoyuan) Economic Research Journal, 2023(4), pp.58-76. (in Chinese)
“The Effect of VAT Reduction: Policy Simulation under Heterogeneous Firm Environment,” (With Chi Wei-dong) China Industrial Economics, 2022(2), pp. 80-98. (in Chinese)
“The Excess Burden of Value Added Taxes in Chinese Manufacturing under the Circumstance of Heterogeneous Firms,” (Zhang Ziyao and Sun Yukun) Journal of World Economy, 2021(10), pp.78-102. (in Chinese)
“The Effect of Social Security Fee Reduction on the Labor Demand of Service Sectors,” (With Zhang Ziyao and Cao Siwei) China Industrial Economics, 2021(5), pp.57-75. (in Chinese)
“Product Market Distortions and Resource Allocation Efficiency: A Heterogeneous Firm Markup Rate Perspective,” (With Zhang Ziyao) Economic Research Journal, 2021(11), pp.119-137. (in Chinese)
“How Large Is the Room for Improving the Resource Allocation Efficiency? A Structural Estimation of Chinese Manufacturing,” (With Li Shigang) Management World, 2019(12), pp.28-44. (in Chinese)
“Demand Heterogeneity and the Estimation of Firm-level Markup,” (With Zhang Ziyao) China Industrial Economics, 2019(12), pp.60-77. (in Chinese)
“Input-Output Heterogeneity and the Estimation of Firm-level Productivity: With an Application to Chinese Manufacturing during 1998-2013,” (With Longjian Yang) China Industrial Economics, 2019(4), pp.23-41. (in Chinese)
“Capital Adjustment Cost and Its Impact on Capital Misallocation : Based on an Analysis of Productivity Volatility,” (With Liu Shengyu) China Industrial Economics, 2018(3), pp.24-43. (in Chinese)
“A Structural Method to Estimate Firm-level Capacity Utilization and Application to Chinese Heavy Industries,” Annals of Economics and Finance, 18-1, 2017, pp.1-28.
“Government - Enterprise Talent Allocation and Economic Growth: An Empirical Research Based on the Chinese City Data,” (With Li Shigang) Economic Research Journal, 2017(7), pp.78-91. (in Chinese)
“How Much Is the Social Cost of Talent Misallocation Caused by Rent-seeking,” (With Shigang Li) Economic Research Journal, July 2014, pp.56-66. (in Chinese)
“A Study of Tax Competition at County-level in China,” (With Longjian Yang) Statistical Research, June 2014, pp.42-49. (in Chinese)
“Research into the Responsiveness of Local Government Finance to Resident Preference,” (With Longjian Yang) Social Sciences in China, Vol. 221, May 2014, pp.96-115. (in Chinese)
“On the Externality of Public Expenditure on Basic Education at County Level Government,” (With Shigang Li) Social Sciences in China, Vol. 203, November 2012, pp.81-97. (in Chinese)
“A Study of Productive Expenditure Bias in County-level Finance in China,” (with Zhu Hong) Social Sciences in China, Vol. 33, No.1, February 2012, pp.1278-147.
“Characteristics of Inter-regional Income Disparities in China,” Social Sciences in China, Vol. 32, No. 3, August 2011, pp.123-144.
“A Research on the Inequality of Fiscal Capacity and its Determinants at County level in China,” (with Sen Tobin and Wang Wenbin) Journal of Beijing Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2010(1), pp.56-68. (in Chinese).
“An Evaluation of the Equity of Rural Tax and Fee in China: 1995-2002,”(with Xu Yanchao and Zhu Hong) World Economic Papers, 2009(2), pp.1-11. (in Chinese).
“Regional Fiscal Gap and the Equalization of Fiscal Transfers at County level in China,” (with Zhu Hong) Management World, 2009(4), pp.37-46. (in Chinese).
“Fiscal Disparities and the Equalization Effects of Fiscal Transfers at the County Level in China,” Annals of Economics and Finance, 9-1, 2008, pp.117-151.
“Is Government’s Intertemporal Budget Constraint Satisfied? Evidence from China?” (with Mian Huang and Lu Xie zheng) Journal of Beijing Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2008(1), pp.111-118. (in Chinese).
“Does Transfers from Upper Government Decrease Fiscal Disparities at County Level?” (with Kang Lingling and Wang Lizhang) Management World, 2007(2), pp.196-206. (in Chinese).
“The Fiscal Disparities at County Level in China: 1993 – 2003,” (with Wang Lijuan and Kan Linlin) Statistical Research, 2007(11), pp.48-53. (in Chinese).
“Income Inequality and Economic Growth-Kuznets Curve Revisited,” (with Gong Liutang) Frontiers of Economics in China, 2006(2), pp.196-206.
“Income Mobility in Urban China,” (with Li Shi and Deng Quheng) Economic Research Journal, 2006(10), pp.30-43. (in Chinese).
“On The Variations and Determinants of Government Debt,” (with YE Hai-yun) World Economic Papers, 2006(5), pp.60-71. (in Chinese).
“Incomplete Labor Market, Government Intervention, and Unemployment Rate,”(with Ye Hai-yun and Gong Liu-tong) Research on Financial and Economic Issues, 2006(1), pp.3-8. (in Chinese).
“Government Debt Is Harmful to Long-run Economic Growth: Evidence from International Panel Data,” Statistical Research, 2006(1), pp.29-34. (in Chinese).
“On the Variation of Investment Ratio,” (with Kong Dechang and Oyan Haiquan) Research on Financial and Economic Theory, 2006(5), pp.56-60. (in Chinese).
“Survey on the Theory of Optimum Quantity of Government Debt,”(with Wang Qinlin) Economic Perspectives, 2005(9), pp.106-110. (in Chinese).
“Government Debt Crowding out Private Investment: Evidence from International Panel Data,”(with Ye Hai-yun) Statistical Research, 2005(10), pp.39-43. (in Chinese).
“Government Debt and Household Consumption,”(with Ye Hai-yun) Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2005(4), pp.79-97. (in Chinese).
“On the Dichotomy of Financial System,”(with Ye Hai-yun) Wuhan University Journal (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2005(5), pp.645-49. (in Chinese).
“The Theoretical Conception of the New Monetary Economics and Its Feasibility,”(with Oyan Haiquan) Economic Perspectives, 2004(8), pp.70-73. (in Chinese).
“On the Temporal Framework of Macroeconomic Model,” Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2003(2), pp.115-120. (in Chinese).
“Survey on Income Distribution Theory,”(with Gong Liutong and Zou Hengfu) Economic Research Journal, 2002(8), pp.83-91. (in Chinese).
Books
“The Structural Estimation of Firm Heterogeneity and Policy Stimulation,” Chinese Social Science Press, 2023. (in Chinese).
“Public Finance and Income Distribution,” Economic Sciences Press, 2017. (in Chinese).
“A Study on the Government Debt and Budget Deficits,” Beijing Normal University Press, 2007. (in Chinese).
“On the Functional Reorganization of Financial System,” China Economic Publishing House, 2006. (in Chinese).
Research Grants (Selected)
“The New Trend of Chinese Labor Share and It’s Determinants: from the View of Firm Heterogeneity,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2022-2025.
“Estimating Excess Burden of Taxes under the Circumstance of Heterogeneous Firms,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2019-2022.
“The Application of Structural Empirical Method on Macro Field: An Example of Recourses Allocation Efficiency and Capacity Utilization Analysis,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2017-2020.
“Tax, Subsidies and Productivity at Firm Level: A Structural Estimation,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2013-2017.
“The Interactions of Local Public Expenditure,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2012-2015.
“Fiscal Disparities and the Equalization Effects of Fiscal Transfers at the County Level in China,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2007-2011.
“The Optimum Quantity of Government Debt,” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2004-2006.
“Functional Reorganization of Financial System,” National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China, 2003-2004.
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