Profile

Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London.

Chenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong as Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics, at Tsinghua University as Special-term Professor of Economics, at Seoul National University as World-Class University Professor of Economics, and at LSE as Reader of Economics. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association.  He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013). 

Chenggang's research is in political economics, institutional economics, law and economics, development economics, transition economics and the Chinese political economy. His research and opinions have been covered widely in the Greater China area and in the world. He is currently a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) and a research fellow of the CEPR.
(https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/chenggang-xu)

Research Interests

Political Economics, Institutional Economics, History, Development Economics, China's Political Economy and History, Law and Finance, Law and Economics, Digital Economy (particularly AI)

Awards and Honours

Selected Publication

• Guo, Di, Kun Jiang, Chenggang Xu and Xiyi Yang (2022). “Industrial Clustering, Income and Inequality in Rural China,” World Development. Forthcoming.
• Guo, Di, Haizhou Huang, Kun Jiang, and Chenggang Xu (2020). “Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures.” Public Choice, 2020.
• Chenggang Xu, Xueyi Zhong and Qi Huang, Towards a System of Social and Demographic Statistics (), Beijing: Zhongguo Caizheng Jingji Chubanshe, 1985.
• Chenggang Xu, Data Base: Design, Performance and Structure, Beijing: Zhishi Chubanshe, 1987.

Teaching

• Institutions and Economic Development of China

Semester: Fall | TSE604900 | 2 credits 
Module: 
Abstract
The purpose of this course is to analyze China’s institutions and explain how these institutions affect China’s economic development. The economic component addresses contemporary economic development and political economic issues. The institutional component involves some historical context. It is a largely self-contained political economics course. The materials covered are based on a broad range of literature and decades of research, which go beyond any existing textbook. The following is a list of some prerequisite knowledge that can be beneficial, although not necessary: basic microeconomics and macroeconomics, development economics, political science, Chinese politics, and Chinese history.