Guiying Laura Wu 吴桂英 ORCID Link Curriculum Vitae Associate Professor in Economics Associate Chair in Academic School of Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University Address: HSS-04-77 48 Nanyang Ave Singapore 639818 Office Phone: +65 6592 1553 Email: guiying.wu@ntu.edu.sg
Research Interests
Primary field: Development Economics regarding Firm Investment, Corporate Finance and Productivity; Chinese Economy Secondary field: Structural Estimation, Applied Econometrics
Research Summary My current research centers on the effects of various distortions and frictions on firms' investment and financing behavior and their implications to economic development and resource allocation. Although such research questions have been intriguing economists for a long time, the key challenge is to distinguish the distortions/frictions of our interest from the fundamentals that determine firms’ productivity or demand. The emphasis of my research is to design identification strategies in a structural econometric approach, which aims to estimate distortions/frictions and fundamentals simultaneously. It thus addresses the most challenging issues in using observational data—endogeneity and selection bias, and offers a quantitative economic laboratory for counterfactuals and welfare analyses. I’m also genuinely interested in topics on Chinese economy, for example how industrialization, globalization and urbanization serve as the three growth engines for China, and how the local governments play a role in development under the regionally decentralized authoritarianism.
Degree
2010 D.Phil. in Economics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
	D.Phil. Thesis: Uncertainty, Investment and Capital Accumulation: A Structural Econometric Approach
	(Edgeworth Prize for an Outstanding D.Phil. Thesis)
2006 M. Phil. in Economics, Brasenose College, University of Oxford (with Distinction)
	M.Phil Thesis: Using Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity to Test for Financing Constraints: Empirical Evidence and Evaluation using Simulated Investment Data (Proxime Accessit for George Webb Medley Prize for the Best M.Phil. Thesis)
2002 B.A. in Economics, School of Economics, Fudan University
Editorial Services 10/2019 – Associate Editor, Economic Modelling 08/2020 – Associate Editor, Singapore Economic Review Selected Publications
“A Structural Estimation on the Return to Infrastructure Investment in China”, (with Qu Feng and Zhifeng Wang), forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.
“Wrong Skewness and Finite Sample Correction in the Normal-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model”, with Jun Cai, Qu Feng, William Horrace, forthcoming, Empirical Economics. “Productivity of Core Infrastructure Investment in China: An Input-Output Approach”, (with Zhifeng Wang and Qu Feng), forthcoming, World Economy. “Competition, Markups and Gains from Trade: A Quantitative Analysis of China Between 1995 and 2004”, (with Wen-Tai Hsu and Yi Lu), 2020, Journal of International Economics. “Productivity Dynamics of Chinese Manufacturing Firms”, (with Qu Feng and Zhifeng Wang), 2019, 899-919, Singapore Economic Review. “China’s Economic Development: A Perspective on Capital Misallocation”, as Chapter 2 in The Chinese Economic Transformation: Views from Young Economists, 2019, Australian National University Press. “Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities and Capital Misallocation”, (with Chanbora Ek), Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 220-230. “On the Reverse Causality between Output and Infrastructure: the Case of China”, (with Qu Feng), 2018, 74, 97-104, Economic Modelling. “Capital Misallocation in China: Financial Frictions or Policy Distortions?” Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 130, 203-223.
“Investment Frictions and the Aggregate Output Loss in China”, online appendix, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77, 437–465. “Does Local Governments’ Budget Deficit Push Up Housing Prices in China?” (with Qu Feng and Pei Li), China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 183-196.
“Bubble or Riddle? An Asset-Pricing Approach Evaluation on China’s Housing Market”, (with Qu Feng), Economic Modelling, 2015, 46, 376–383.
“Pursuing the Wrong Options? Adjustment Costs and the Relationship between Uncertainty and Capital Accumulation”, (with Stephen Bond and Måns Söderbom), Economics Letters, 2011, 111, 249-251.
Optimization in Economic Theory, by Avinash K. Dixit, (translation with Qu Feng), 2006, Shanghai People’s Press.
“The Estimation of China's Provincial Capital Stock: 1952-2000”, (with Jun Zhang and Jipeng Zhang), Economic Research Journal, 2004, 10, 35-44 (Google Scholar citation).
Working Papers
“Asset Pricing under Capital Control: Evidence from A-H Price Premium”, (with Qu Feng and Mengying Yuan). “Save Lives or Save Livelihoods? A Cross-country Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Growth” (with Qu Feng, Mengying Yuan and Shihao Zhou).
“Identifying Capital Misallocation”, (with Zheng Michael Song), R&R, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. Early versions were circulated as “Identifying Capital Market Distortions”, “A Structural Estimation on Capital Market Distortions in Chinese Manufacturing” and “A Structural Estimation on Capital Market Distortions in UK and Chinese Manufacturing Firms”.
“A Structural Estimation for the Effects of Uncertainty on Capital Accumulation with Heterogeneous Firms”, (with Stephen Bond and Måns Söderbom). “Investment and Financial Constraints: Empirical Evidence for Firms in Brazil and China”, (with Stephen Bond and Måns Söderbom). “Uncertainty and Capital Accumulation: Empirical Evidence for African and Asian Firms”, (with Stephen Bond and Måns Söderbom).

Last updated: April 2021