About

Welcome to my website!

I am Mingwei Xu (徐铭威), a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and I expect to graduate in June 2025.

My research interests lie in environmental economics, development economics, health economics, and political economy, with a regional emphasis on China.

I will join the HKU Business School at The University of Hong Kong as a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Guojun He in Fall 2025.

Here is my CV.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, 2025, Peking University, China
• B.A. in Economics, 2020, Peking University, China

Publications

• The Political Economy of Ratchet Effect: Evidence from China's Environmental Regulation (with Guangyu Cao, Xi Weng, and Li-An Zhou), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 131 (2025): 103150.

Working Papers

• How Do Bureaucrats Respond to Hybrid Incentive Contracts: Evidence from China's Air Pollution Controls (with Guangyu Cao, Xi Weng, and Li-An Zhou) R&R at Journal of Public Economics
• Greening along the Slope and Resource Reallocation: Evidence from China's Grain for Green Program (with Zhi Wang, Qinghua Zhang, and Li-An Zhou)

Teaching Assistant

• Microeconomics (UG, Spring 2019-2024)
• Development Economics (IPh.D., Fall 2023)
• Frontier Topics in Political Economy (Ph.D., Spring 2023)
• Public Finance Theory and Policy (UG, Spring 2020)
• Economics (UG, Fall 2019)