Feicheng Wang
Biography
Feicheng Wang was postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Göttingen from August 2017 to August 2022.He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 2017. Before that, he attended a postgraduate programme at Xiamen University and did his undergraduate study at Beijing Institute of Technology, both in Economics. Prior to joining the University of Göttingen, Feicheng worked as a teaching fellow at Nottingham University Business School China in 2016-2017.
He is a research affiliate of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. From 2020 to 2022, he was a research member (board member from January to August 2022) at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), University of Göttingen.
As of September 2022, Feicheng joined the Department of Global Economics and Management (GEM) at the University of Groningen as an Assistant Professor. This website is not updated anymore. Please check his Personal Website for more details.
Research interests
International Trade; Labour Economics; Development Economics; Chinese EconomyPeer-reviewed publications
- Feicheng Wang, Krisztina Kis-Katos, and Minghai Zhou, "Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China," Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
- Yuanwei Xu and Feicheng Wang, "The Health Consequence of Rising Housing Prices in China," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, August 2022, 200(C), 114-137.
- Feicheng Wang, Chris Milner, and Juliane Scheffel, “Export Destination and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Industries,” Canadian Journal of Economics, May 2022, 55(2), 1057-1094.
- Feicheng Wang, Chris Milner, and Juliane Scheffel, “Labour Market Reform and Firm-level Employment Adjustment: Evidence from the Hukou Reform in China,” Journal of Development Economics, March 2021, 149, 102584. (Hukou reform data)
- Feicheng Wang, Chris Milner, and Juliane Scheffel, “Globalization and Inter-industry Wage Differentials in China,” Review of International Economics, May 2018, 26(2), 404-437.
Working papers
- “Mask Wars: China's Exports of Medical Goods in Times of COVID-19” (with Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian Schmidt, and Felix Turbanisch), Kiel Working Papers 2161, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), August 2020 (R&R, Journal of International Economics).
- “Business Flies: Estimating the Trade Effect of Air Connectivity” (with Zheng Wang and Zhuo Zhou), SSRN paper No. 3884374, July 2021.
- “Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China” (with Zhe Liang and Hartmut Lehmann), IZA Discussion Papers No. 14650, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), August 2021.
- “Importing Air Pollution? Evidence from China's Plastic Waste Imports” (with Kerstin Unfried), IZA Discussion Papers No. 15218, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), April 2022.
Short articles and policy reports
- “Investment Screening Mechanisms: The Trend to Control Inward Foreign Investment” (with Vera Z. Eichenauer and Michael Dorsch), EconPol Policy Report 34, December 2021.
- “Chinas Maskendiplomatie: Die Rolle politischer und wirtschaftlicher Beziehungen bei der Beschaffung medizinischer Güter in der Corona-Krise” (with Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian Schmidt, and Felix Turbanisch), Kiel Policy Briefs 146, October 2020.
- “China’s Mask Diplomacy: Political and Business Ties Facilitate Access to Critical Medical Goods during the Coronavirus Pandemic” (with Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian Schmidt, and Felix Turbanisch), VoxEU.org, September 2020.
- “International Trade and Wage Inequality in China”, cege-Report, April 2018.
Teaching
- International Trade and the Labour Market (Master, University of Göttingen)
- Advanced Labour Economics (Master, University of Göttingen)
- Economics of Pricing and Decision Making (Bachelor, Nottingham University Business School China)
- Economics of Corporate Strategy (Bachelor, Nottingham University Business School China)
- Quantitative Methods (Bachelor, Nottingham University Business School China)
- Microeconomics for Business (Bachelor, Nottingham University Business School China)
- Mathematical Economics (Bachelor, School of Economics, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
- Microeconomic Theory (Bachelor, School of Economics, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
- Microeconomic Theory (Bachelor, School of Economics, Xiamen University)