About

Welcome to my website!

I am Mingwei Xu (徐铭威), a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong. I earned my Ph.D. from Peking University in 2025.

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

Here is my CV.

Education

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

Publications

• How Do Bureaucrats Respond to Hybrid Incentive Contract: Evidence from China's Air Pollution Controls (with Guangyu Cao, Xi Weng, and Li-An Zhou) Journal of Public Economics 259 (2026): 105664.
  
  Media Coverage: VoxDev
• 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

• Greening along the Slope and Resource Reallocation: Evidence from China's Grain for Green Program (with Zhi Wang, Qinghua Zhang, and Li-An Zhou)
  Under review
• When Transient Shocks Produce Permanent Divergence: Droughts, Labor Reallocation, and College Opportunity Loss in Rural China (with Guangyu Cao, Hongbin Li, and Yifan Zheng)
• Beyond Subsidies: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Structural Transformation, and Human Capital Investment (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)