Yi Huang

Education Background:Ph.D in Economics, London Business School

Research Interests:International Macroeconomics and Finance; Digital Economy and Fintech and Chinese Economy

Primary Email:huang_y@fudan.edu.cn

Personal Website:https://yihuang05.wixsite.com/macro

Overview

Selected Publications

Prof. Huang is Professor of Finance at Fudan University and Co-director of the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Fudan University Joint Research Center for International Finance (JRC), who was also the Academic Director of the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program. Prior to joining Fudan in 2021, Professor Huang held the Pictet Chair in Finance and Development and was an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland). He is also a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), an Academic Fellow at the Luohan Academy, and a Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

Prof. Huang was an economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He has also been a research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, and the Institute of Digital Finance at Peking University. He has held visiting positions at London Business School, Imperial College Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Prof. Huang serves on the Council on Global Economic Imbalances at the World Economic Forum and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial Markets.

Prof. Huang’s research spans international macro and finance, digital economics and fintech, international capital markets, and entrepreneurship and innovation. His recent research examines the influence of corporate financing and investment on financial markets in the era of globalization and the digital age. His work is published in academic journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of International Economics.

Prof. Huang has received numerous awards, including the Hong Kong RGC Theme-based Research Grant, NBER Entrepreneurship Small Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant (SNSF), Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC) Programme, Best Paper Award of the Asian Finance Association Conference (AsianFA), Best Paper Award of the China International Conference in Finance (CICF), Faculty Recognition Award for EMBA teaching , Research Excellence Award and Pushan Award for Excellent Papers on International Economics. He was also the Margaret and Richard Merrell Foundation Scholar at London Business School.

 

(Updated by August 2024)

  • Yi Huang, Ernest Dautovic, and Harald Hau, Consumption Response to Minimum Wages: Evidence from Chinese Households, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
  • Yi Huang, Ugo Panizza, and Richard Portes, Corporate Foreign Bond Issuance and Interfirm Loans in China, Journal of International Economics, 2024, Volume 152, 103975.
  • Yi Huang , Chen Lin, Sibo Liu, and Heiwai Tang, Trade Networks and Firm Value: Evidence from the U.S.-China Trade War, Journal of International Economics,  2023, Volume 145, 103811.