Zhiyuan Chen [陈志远]
Assistant Professor
Business School, Renmin University of China
Email: chenzhiyuan@rmbs.ruc.edu.cn
Hello, welcome to my website! I obtained my PhD degree at the Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University. My supervisors are Jonathan Eaton and Mark Roberts, with Jingting Fan and James Tybout as my committee members.
My research fields are industrial organization and macro development. In particular, I am interested in topics on technological change, innovation and industrial policy. I seek to combine accurate micro estimates with meaningful macro implications, with an emphasis on the modelling and methodology development.
Recent Updates
One-Stop Research with VS Code & LLMs — Lecture Series
中央财经大学
国际经济与贸易学院
中国人民大学
经济学院
首都经济贸易大学
Upcoming对外经济贸易大学
Upcoming南京大学
Upcoming中国人民大学
（苏州校区）
江西财经大学
UpcomingHandout: One-Stop Research with VS Code and LLMs
Lecture handout for the invited talk series. Students and colleagues can read it online or download the HTML copy for later reference.
- 2026-06-04 人大经济学院讲座：一站式科研:VS Code 与大模型实操应用
- 2026-05-27 The paper Banking Competition, Defaulting Risks, and Margins of Innovation was finally accepted by Canadian Journal of Economics. The first version of the paper was written in 2017 and included in the 2018 AEA poster session.
- 2026-05-27 The paper The Impact of Digital Transformation on Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms, coauthored with management scholars, was conditionally accepted by Management and Organization Review.
- 2026-03-08 2026 GNAM Global Network Week (国际游学周)，模块项目主任 @人民大学一带一路国际商学院（浙江义乌）
- 2026-01-20 中国经济研究专题研究会，主题演讲人 @人大经济学院
- 2026-01-18 The methodology paper proposing a new method of identifying treatment effects on productivity accepted @RAND Journal of Economics
- 2026-01-01 国家自然科学基金委专项项目“基础研究支撑经济发展数据系统构建与集成”，子课题负责人
- 2025-12-30 人大新闻网报道JDE发表论文： “首创机组层面分析框架，破解电力行业碳管制效率难题”
- 2025-12-26 The paper on applying structural production function estimation and counterfactual analyses to the problem of regulating coal generators forthcoming @Journal of Development Economics
- 2025-12-19 第二届“香樟书院”学术讲堂，主讲嘉宾 @湖南科技大学商学院
- 2025-11-15 第五届香樟产业经济学论坛，主旨演讲嘉宾 @安徽工业大学
- 2025-09-03 Invited FSS-DECO Seminar @University of Macau
- 2025-08-14 Presentation at Eaton's Forum hosted by International Economics and Finance Society, China @对外经济与贸易大学
- 2025-05-19 Invited Presentation at ISEM Conference: Frontiers of Empirical Research in China @首都经济与贸易大学ISEM
- 2023-07-02 China Financial Research Conference @清华五道口.
- 2021-07-12 7th International Young Finance Scholars' Conference (virtual) @北大汇丰商学院
- 2022-06-22 Presentation at 2022 Asian Meeting of Econometric Society @CHUK-Shenzhen