General Information
- Gender: Female
- Age: 23
- Nationality: Chinese
Research Interests
Current Position
Economic Consultant (Aug, 2011 - )
- Shanghai In-Flow Infotech Ltd.
Education
M.Sc in Economics
Bachelor in Economics
Research in Economics:
- Master Thesis: Expectations and the Social Network: Modeling Health Risk Perception among U.S. Adolescents (with Mahesh Karra). June, 2011.[
Awarded as A+ level thesis, Part]
- Modeled the health risk perception among adolescents based on their social networks, with consideration of network effects and social distance.
- Examined the network effects using the Add Health dataset with GMM-IV method in panel data.
- Coursework: Has Financial Innovation Boosted Industrial Growth? Evidence fromthe Emergence of Piaohao in 19th-20th Century China. June, 2011.
- Coursework: Mere Exposure Effect in Partner Matching: Why Does Social Distance Matter? (with Hrvoje Stojic). April, 2011.
- Bachelor Thesis: Social Network, the Internet and Information Transmission (Awarded "University's Excellent Graduation Thesis"). June, 2010 [Part]
- Examined the influences of social networks and public media on information transmission, in particular, the speed and quality of information distribution.
- Analyzed co-author relationship data and performed computational simulations of different social network structures demonstrating the extent to which the Internet influences individual utility levels.
- Working Paper: What Do We Pay For Asymmetric Information? The Mechanism Evolution in Online Markets Nov, 2009.
- Built a sequence of principal-agent models based on incentive theories, and discussed the impact of different mechanism designs on market outcomes and the additional cost needed.
- Examined mechanisms of the reputation, punishment, and barriers to entry and evaluated their respective boundary validation conditions.
- Book: Play Econometrics with R (working in process, in Chinese) [Preview]
- Compiled a manual on the realizations of modern econometric methods in R.
More: list of [Papers and Presentations ]
Teaching:
I was responsible for the recitation session. If you want, you may see the presentations I used here:
Recitation Session Forthcoming...
- Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (3rd undergraduate), Shandong University, 2009-2010. [Job description ]
Conference:
- From Economics to R: Using R in Economics and Econometrics, a speech on 2nd Chinese R Conference, Beijing & Shanghai, Dec, 2009.
Consulting:
- Board Moderator of COS (Capital of Statistics), Renmin University of China, 2009-now.
- Adviser for Association of Statistics Communication, Central South University, 2009-now.
Communication Media:
Reported news and took photos for the public relations department of university student union, as well as school of economics.
Served as a Program Planner, and devoted myself into providing high-quality TV programs for both teachers and students.
Selected and organized appropriate articles for school magazine, as well as wrote specials on hot topics at school.
This blog was built in winter, 2006, when I entered university and started my college life. Now it is subscribed by hundreds of readers through RSS, and there are more than 300 posts favored by the search engines like Google.com. Moreover, I have helped hundreds readers via email, to solve their questions about professional knowledge in economics and mathematics, and the use of some software like latex, R and Stata.
It is a wonderful bridge between my readers and me, and brings me numerous friends from different industries.
Computer and Website:
constructed the main website of my school and several sub-sites like anniversary site, a journal site, alumni site, etc., and offered technical support.
designed user-friendly interface
designed user-friendly interface and developed related extensions.
developed a new web-service system based on PHP, MySQL and Ajax in group.
Others:
surveyed the market and participated in selling productions and technical department.
- Trainee of China Unicom (a Telecom Operator, a FORTUNE 500 company) [Job description ], 2006-2007
Other Knowledge
Computer Science:
- Data Mining, Algorithm
- C/C++ Programming Language (National Certification)
- Network Technology (National Certification)
- Software Development, etc.
Biology:
- Physiology, Microbiology, Ecology, Biochemistry, Genetics, etc.
Also see [Interests ].
Computational Skills
Languages:
- For Programming:
- C/C++ (Excellent)
- Java (Good)
- Basic (Little)
- For Website Service[Works ]:
- PHP (Excellent: I have developed a large web-service software system using it)
- Asp and .net (Good)
- Jsp (Good)
- Python (Little)
- SQL (Excellent)
- HTML+CSS+JavaScript (Excellent)
- Ajax (Good)
Softwares:
- Mathematics and Statistics Softwares: R (favourite~), Stata, Matlab
- Database Management System: Mysql, Oracle, Access
- Graphics:
Photoshop [Works ], 
Flash [Works ], 
Illustrator [Works ]
- Other:
, 
Word, 
Excel, 
PowerPoint, 
Dreamweaver
Operating Systems:
Languages
- Chinese (native)
- English (fluent)
- Spanish (basic)
Academic Courses
Economics (Main):
- Advanced Microeconomics (Ph.D level)
- Advanced Macroeconomics (Ph.D level)
- Econometric Methods (Ph.D level)
- Topics in Development (Ph.D level)
- International Economic History (Ph.D level)
- Game Theory and Information Economics
- Time Series Analysis, Mathematical Economics
All Courses of Economics
- History of Chinese Economic Thoughts
- History of Economic Theories
- Economic Statistics
- Labor Economics (both undergraduate and Ph.D levels)
- Law and Economics
- Economic Law
- International Economics
[Textbook: International Economics, By Dominick Salvatore]
- International Trade
- International Finance
- Finance and Investment
- Money and Finance Market
- Public Finance
- Basic Accounting
- Management
- Ecological Economics
- Social Cost-Benefit Analysis and Applications in Environmental Economics
- Development Economics
see also: [my Reading List (record from Douban.com) ]
Mathematics:
- Mathematical Analysis (3 semesters)
- Real Analysis (graduate level)
- Advanced Algebra (2 semesters)
- Theory of Probability
- Mathematical Statistics
- Numerical Analysis (with Matlab and R)
- Functional Analysis
- Operational Research (optimal programming, dynamic programming, graph theory, etc.)
- Complex Analysis
Reference
- Massimo Motta
- Dean of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and CREI Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Tel: (+34) 93 542 2058
- Fax: (+34) 93 542 1860
- Email: massimo.motta@upf.edu
- Personal Webpage: http://www.barcelonagse.eu/MassimoMotta.html
- Address: Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona
- Gábor Lugosi
- ICREA research professor at Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Tel: (+34) 93542-2766
- Fax: (+34) 93542-1746
- Email: GABOR.LUGOSI@gmail.com
- Address: Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, 08005, Barcelona, Spain
- Personal Webpage: http://www.econ.upf.edu/~lugosi/
- Thijs van Rens
- CREI Researcher, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Tel: (+34) 93 542 2598
- Fax: (+34) 93 542 1860
- Email: tvanrens@crei.cat
- Personal Webpage: www.crei.cat/~vanrens/
- Address: Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, SPAIN
- Gino Gancia
- CREI Researcher, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Tel: (+34) 93 542 2732
- Fax: (+34) 93 542 2826
- Email: ggancia@crei.cat
- Address: Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005-Barcelona
Honors & Awards
- Excellent Graduation Thesis (for bachelor's degree, top 2% out of 325), Shandong University, 2010
- Excellent student scholarship, Shandong University, 2009
- Challenge Cup (National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, twice) [Description ]
- Outstanding Working Performance Award (2 of 110) [Description]
For the outstanding working performance as a programmer in Student Online, the students' website of SDU.
I was the first one who was honored only after the first-year's work- usually it is the ultimate award for the members who have made contributions to this organization.
- Outstanding Public Relations Title (5 of 80, twice) [Description]
For the outstanding performance in communication media work.
I have wrote many articles published on newspapers and built the college's website.
- Excellent League Cadre and Excellent Student Cadre (10 of 200, twice) [Description ]
For the Excellent work in Student Union, as a member and a vice-chair, respectively.
Papers and Presentations
Papers/Reports
- Master Thesis: Expectations and the Social Network: Modeling Health Risk Perception among U.S. Adolescents (with Mahesh Karra). June, 2011.[Part]
- Coursework: Has Financial Innovation Boosted Industrial Growth? Evidence fromthe Emergence of Piaohao in 19th-20th Century China. June, 2011.
- Coursework: Mere Exposure Effect in Partner Matching: Why Does Social Distance Matter? (with Hrvoje Stojic). April, 2011.
- Book: Play Econometrics with R (working in process, in Chinese) [Preview]
- Graduation Thesis: Social Network, the Internet and Information Transmission, 2010. [Part I, and the rest will be published online later]
- What Do We Pay For Asymmetric Information?
The Mechanism Evolution in Online Markets, 2009. [Details ]
- Horizontal Merger Simulation in The Iron Ore Market: Case from BHP and Rio (in Chinese), 2009.
- An Evaluation of the Ecological Economic Functions of Jinan Liubu National Forest Park (in Chinese), 2008. [, Details ]
- Infrastructure and FDI: Evidence from Kunshan and Dongguan, China [Details ], 2008.
- What Do Current Students Plan to Do after Graduating? A Sample Survey among University Seniors (in Chinese), 2007. [Details ]
For details, see[Papers and Presentations ]
Discussions/Presentations
- Discussion: “The Impact of Potatoes on Old World Population and Urbanization”, 2011.[Slides Report ]
- Summary: "Population Growth and Human Capital Investments: Theory and Evidence", 2011. [Details ]
- Summary: "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India", 2011. [Details ]
- LaTeX and Its Application in Economics, 2009. [Details ]
- From Economics to R: Using R in Economics and Econometrics, 2nd Chinese R Conference, 2009. [Details ]
- On the Back of Website, 2007. [Details ]
- Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price, 2008. [Details ]
- Consumption and Conception of Values in Ancient China and Greece: Differences in Thinking Between China and the Western World, 2008. [Details ]
- Regional Differences in Household Income and Living Condition , 2007. [Details ]
Extra-curricular Service
- Vice-Chair of Public Relations Department of the Student Union
- Coordinated the union's relationships with companies and public media to spread our influence.
- Job Interviewer for University Press
- Served as an interviewer to help the press select technical supporters.
- Volunteer for Amateur Astronomers Association
- Organized group activities and publicized the non-profit association.
- Volunteer for the college's anniversary meeting
Interests
Besides of economics, computer science, mathematics and biology, I also have strong interests in the following fields:
- Astronomy: Since my childhood, my dream is to own a telescope.
- Art and Design: I like the feeling of creating. See Part [Design ]
- Photography: After class and especially in holidays, I love wandering and shooting as a record of life's beauty. See Part [Photography ]
- Communication Media: It's interesting and challenging to report what is happening.
- Philosophy: Thinking is a good choice when spending a long silent night alone.
- Poetry: Sometimes I write some poems just following inspiration.
- Collection: letter paper, envelope, game box
Address: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics,
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona
Email: cloudlychen@gmail.com Website: www.cloudlychen.net Chinese Blog: www.loyhome.com
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