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ZHANG Penglong

Associate Professor

Email: zhangpenglong@tsinghua.edu.cn

Tel:+86-10-62771712

Dr. Penglong Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College in 2018. He earned his master’s degree in economics and his bachelor’s dual degrees in economics and mathematics at Renmin University of China. His main research fields include international trade, development, global governance, and rural governance. He has published refereed articles in leading journals of economics and management, including Review of Economics and Statistics, World Development, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of International Money and Finance. He is an editorial member of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. He teaches Global Governance, Economic Principles, Development: Theory and Practice (in English), Belt and Road Initiative and the Reshaping of World Economy (in English).

1. Anderson, James, and Penglong Zhang. 2025. Latent exports: Almost ideal gravity and zeros. Review of Economics and Statistics. 107(1): 221-239.

2. Zhang, Penglong. 2020. Home-biased gravity: The role of migrant tastes in international trade. World Development. 129: 104863.

3. Hu, Yushan, Ben G. Li, and Penglong Zhang. 2024. Territory flows and trade flows between 1870 and 2008. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 228: 106787.

4. Hu, Yushan, and Penglong Zhang. 2024. International exposure and the transmission of financial shocks: Evidence from China. Journal of International Money and Finance. 149: 103181.

5. Wang, Haijian, Shaojie Zhou, and Penglong Zhang. 2024. Clean heating and clean air: Evidence from the coal-to-gas program in China. China Economic Review, 85: 102179.

6. Hu, Yushan, Yahua Wang, and Penglong Zhang. 2023. Anti-urbanization and rural development: Evidence from return migrants in China. Journal of Rural Studies. 103: 103102.

7. Wu, Maozhen, and Penglong Zhang. 2024. Poverty alleviation and pollution reduction: Evidence from the poverty hat removal program in China. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 70: 56–76.

8. Hu, Yushan, and Penglong Zhang. 2021. Semiparametric estimation of varying trade elasticities in gravity. Economics Letters. 209: 110120.

9. Fan, Zhiyong, Yushan Hu, and Penglong Zhang. 2022. Measuring China’s core inflation for forecasting purposes: Taking persistence as weights. Empirical Economics. 63: 93-111.

10. Hu, Yushan, Yahua Wang, and Penglong Zhang. 2022. Internet access and irrigation adoption in China. China Agricultural Economic Review. 14(3): 605-630.

11. Xie, Yize, Penglong Zhang, Zhusong Yang, and Wenyin Cheng. 2023. Redistributive capacity and international trade: A cross-country analysis. Global Economic Review. 52(2): 167-186.

12. Liu, Shenglong, and Penglong Zhang. 2022. Foreign direct investment and air pollution in China: Evidence from the global financial crisis. Developing Economies. 60: 30-61.

13. Hu, Yushan, and Penglong Zhang. 2024. Performance of China’s core inflation measures for monetary policy. Singapore Economic Review. 69: 2207–2234.

Selected working papers

1. Housing, health and life expectancy inequality in China, with Yushan Hu and Guozhong Zhu. R&R at Journal of Development Economics.

2. Financial corruption and bank lending: Evidence from China, with Yushan Hu. R&R at International Journal of Industrial Organization.

3. Migrant tastes and merchandise trade: Evidence from China, with Tiankuo Han, Yushan Hu and Maozhen Wu. R&R at World Economy.

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