TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Ÿ TeachingCourses:Microeconomics(undergraduate, 54), International Economics(undergraduate, 54)

Ÿ Research Areas:Development Economics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Ÿ July 2016– present: Assistant Professor, Wuhan University,

MANAGERAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

Ÿ Research Assistant at Economic Research Institute, Peking University, 2008-2010

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

Ÿ Lei Cheng. 2017. Estimating the Value of Political Connections in China: Evidence from Sudden Deaths of Politically Connected Independent Directors.Journal of Comparative Economics, accepted. (Single author)

Ÿ Lei Chengand Zhen Lei. 2015. Does the Expansion of Chinese State-owned Enterprises Affect the Innovative Behavior of Private Enterprises.Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 22 (1): 24-54.

Journal Papers (Domestic)

Ÿ Lei Cheng. 2011. Research on the Effects of the Expansion of the Income Gap on the Insufficiency of Consumption Demand in China: A Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Test.Economic Science, (1): 11-24.

Ÿ Yeliang Xia, Lei Cheng. 2011. Research on Spillover Effects of FDI on the Technical Efficiency of China’s Industrial Enterprises: A Quantitative Analysis of Chinese Industrial Firms from 2002 to 2006.Journal of China Industrial Economics, 268 (7): 55-65.

CONFERENCE

Ÿ Lei Cheng, “Do Politically Connected Independent Directors Matter? Evidence from Mandatory Resignation Events in China”, International Conference on the Chinese Economy (CESA2017), UWA Business School, Perth, Australia, 12-14 July 2017.

Ÿ Lei Cheng, “Estimating the Value of Political Connections in China: Evidence from Sudden Deaths of Politically Connected Independent Directors”, The 6th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, November 2015.

Ÿ Lei Cheng, “Does the Expansion of Chinese State-owned Enterprises Affect the Innovative Behavior of Private Enterprises”,The 4th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, December 2013.

Ÿ Yeliang Xia, Lei Cheng. 2011. Research on Spillover Effects of FDI on the Technical Efficiency of China’s Industrial Enterprises: A Quantitative Analysis of Chinese Industrial Firms from 2002 to 2006.Journal of China Industrial Economics, 268 (7): 55-65.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

Ÿ 2018.01–2020.12,National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 71703113),￥180000.

Ÿ 2017.04–2019.04, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Wuhan University,￥30000.