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according to the American Federal Reserve System (FED) Saint Louis branch of the IDEAS Economic Research Institute recently announced in May this year, ranking, global 30000 2 more than 1000 economists, ranking in the top 5% of 1621 of the world's top economists of the Chinese American economists have 18 people.
in the 18 economists, Central University of Finance and Economics China economics and management academy academic committee director Zou Hengfu, School of economics and management of Tsinghua University professor Wei Shangjin, Columbia University Economics Professor Bai Jushan, Ohio University professor Li Longfei, the United States of California University at Saint Louis and City University Hong Kong professor Zhang Xianwang ranked in the top five, in which Professor Zou Hengfu ranked 146th, this is the first Chinese economist to enter the world top 150.The
ranking statistics in RePEc (Research Papers in Economics papers in Economics) registered economists published academic papers, books and journals and academic works cited, browsing and downloading number of times, according to 31 different standards (e.g. published papers, author or co-author of several independent, papers cited, number of downloads, cited paper time recursive influence factors to judge all economics), respectively, developed 31 different rank; and the criteria to be comprehensive consideration, remove the maximum and minimum value, the harmonic mean will be the world's top economists comprehensive ranking.
investigation deadline for 2012 May.Only in the United States of America papers in Economics (REPEC) registration of economic scholars and in the REPEC listed in the paper will be taken into consideration.Note that the rank, although more influential, but it is mainly based on the number of papers and cited several ranking method biased towards academic research, peer review, academic reputation and other factors such as insufficient attention, also did not give a fair measure of standard English works, in the academic community is only as internal reference index.The United States Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Wang Jian senior economist in micro-blog on commented: "this place have a look on the line.So serious is insider jokes."
in the 18 Chinese economists, with more than 1/3 of the economists study involved in the field of macroeconomics, 5 economists research areas of econometrics, 4 related to monetary policy, the 3 relates to agricultural economics, macroeconomics and econometrics, visible as a Chinese economist in the research field of two mainstream, but also pay attention to, all Chinese economists are abroad Doctorate (16 in USA, 1 in Canada, 1 in Australia), most of them are in the United States of America College or economic institutions serving, but in recent years there are employed in Chinese colleges and universities, to Chinese teaching trend.
is worth pondering, even if it is a not a comprehensive list, in the global top 100 economists did not figure in Chinese, Chinese ranks first in the Dr. Zou Hengfu ranked 146th in the world, Chinese economist from the world's top level is how much difference?
the 18 into the global Top5% Chinese economists: Zou Hengfu
1, ranking 146th in the world
, main research direction: public finance and macroeconomics.
is currently teaching at the Chinese Central University of Finance and Economics.In 1986 and 1989 at the Harvard University to obtain a PhD and MSc in economics.World Bank research department senior researcher and domestic university professor.In 1998 he won the China National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars award.Wei Shangjin
2, global 152nd ranking in
main research direction: International Finance, international trade, government management and reform, Chinese economy and macro economics.