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Zheng Michael Song, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Economics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
929 Esther Lee Building
Chung Chi Campus, Shatin
Hong Kong

Office Phone: +852 2609 8231
Email: zsong@cuhk.edu.hk

Research Fellow (on leave)

School of Economics
Fudan University
618-600 GuoQuan Road
Shanghai 200433
China

Office Phone: +86 21 6564 3514
Email: zsong@fudan.edu.cn

 

Research Interests

Macroeconomics, Political Economy, Public Finance

Working Paper

Life Cycle Earnings and the Household Saving Puzzle in a Fast-Growing Economy (with Dennis T. Yang)

Growing like China (with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti), under revision for American Economic Review

House Price Dynamics with Dispersed Information (with Giovanni Favara)

Markovian Social Security in Unequal Societies (with Kaiji Chen)

Precautionary Corporate Liquidity (with Kaiji Chen and Yikai Wang)

Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt, (with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti), under revision for Econometrica, Technical Appendix

Financial Frictions on Capital Allocation: A Transmission Mechanism of TFP Fluctuations, (with Kaiji Chen), under revision for Review of Economic Studies

Persistent Ideology and the Determination of Public Policies over Time, under revision for International Economic Review

The Dynamics of Inequality and Social Security in General Equilibrium, under revision for Review of Economic Dynamics

Thesis

Essays on Dynamic Political Economy, September 2005
Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
Advisor: Fabrizio Zilibotti
Committee: John Hassler and Lars Ljungqvist
Faculty Opponent: Sevi Rodr¨ªguez Mora