He Qiugu

Faculty

Full Time Faculty

He Qiugu

Job Title:Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Macroeconomics, International Trade
Industrial Organization

EMAIL:qiugu.he @nankai.edu.cn

Education

Undergraduate Studies:
B.Eng., Software Engineering, School of Software, Central South University, 2011.
                                
Masters Level Work:
M.Eng., Software Engineering, School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, 2015
                                
Phd Studies:
Singapore Management University, 2016 to June 2021

Professional Experiences

Teaching certificate
2020                   Certificate for graduate instructor, Center for English Communication, SMU
Teaching Assistant
2020                   Macroeconomics (Undergraduate,  Prof Nicolas L. Jacquet)       
                         Macroeconomics (Undergraduate,  Prof Yu Sun)
2019                   MSc R/Python Coding Workshops (Master, Prof Anthony S. Tay)
2018                   Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergraduate, Prof Jianhuan Xu)
Grader
2016                   Introductory Economics (Undergraduate, Prof Kong Weng Ho)

Prizes and Awards

2016-2020         Graduate Full Scholarship (PhD Program), Ministry of Education, Singapore

Teaching

Primary fields: Macroeconomics, International Trade
Secondary fields: Industrial Organization

Academic Publications

Publications: 
“Real exchange rate, hot money and housing price” with Dong Yuan and Bo Zhao, Journal of Financial Research (in Chinese,金融研究, CSSCI), 2016
                                    
“A Literature Review of Determinants on House Prices” with Dong Yuan and Bo Zhao,  Research on Economics and Management. (in Chinese,经济与管理研究, CSSCI), 2015
                                    
Research Papers: 
“Intellectual property right enforcement, competition, and innovation : Evidence from China” (Job Market Paper)
Abstract: This paper studies how IPR (Intellectual Property Right) enforcement across China affectsaggregate innovation and welfare. By using China Judgements Database, I first document that while competition spurs aggregate R&D and reduces firm-level R&D, strict IPR enforcement enlarges the magnitude of the first effect and shrinks the second effect. Based on these findings, I build a Schumpeterian growth model featuring IP infringement. From the theoretical model, I find that a new distribution of firm size is consistent with the current literature if only intellectual property rights are perfectly protected. I estimate the model using firm-level data from China and find that the entry cost of a pirate manufacturer is only half of that of the innovator. Performing a counterfactual analysis, I identify three channels that IPR enforcement impacts on welfare.
                                    
“Firm productivity and the Variety of Inputs and Outputs: Evidence from Chinese Trade Data”  with Onish, Ken; Yang, Guang; Xu, Jianhuan
Abstract: This paper studies how the trade liberalization in China changes the firm productivity. We develop a framework to estimate revenue productivity (TFPR) and real productivity (TFPQ) with multi-product firms. We find that the aggregate TFPR increases 30% from 2002-2007 and TFPQ increases 22%, suggesting that the observed TFPR increase is mainly driven by real productivity change rather than the markup change. We further decompose the change of productivity into three channels: (1) access to foreign inputs; (2) technology upgrades; (3) resource re-allocation within the firm. We find the most significant channel is the last one, which explains half of the aggregate productivity increase. We also find that the SOEs and private firms significantly improve the TFPR. However, private firms TFPR increase mainly come from the increase of TFPQ, while only 65% of the TFPR increase of SOEs can be attributed to change of TFPQ.