Hangtian Xu
Professor
School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University
徐航天
湖南大学 经济与贸易学院 教授
— Xu, Hangtian, Fuqiang Yang*, and Wenzhuo Zheng (2024) The effectiveness of government incentives for outward investment: The case of China's Belt and Road Initiative
Contemporary Economic Policy, accepted.
— Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki, Meng Li, Yuxiong Xiao, Hangtian Xu*, and Yiming Zhou (2023) Financial crisis and within-city heterogeneity in land prices: The role of REIT penetration
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, forthcoming. (Link)
— Chen, Nana, Hangtian Xu*, and Yang Xu (2024) Family planning and fertility inequality: Evidence from the abolition of China's One-Child Policy
Asian Economic Journal 38: 86-117. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* (2023) Commercial-to-residential land-use conversion and residential recentralization in large cities
Canadian Journal of Economics 56: 306-338. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian and Yiming Zhou* (2023) Inter-industry trade and heterogeneous firms: Country size matters
Japanese Economic Review 74: 57-81. (Link)
— He, Yu*, Xiujian Peng, and Hangtian Xu (2020) Overeducation, market recognition, and effective labour supply
China Economic Review 59: 101384. (Link)
— Huang, Zhenxiong, Hangtian Xu, Jianming Li, and Nengsheng Luo* (2020) Has highway construction narrowed the urban-rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities
Papers in Regional Science 99: 705-723. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Hidekazu Itoh (2020) Path dependence in port choice: Some quasi-experimental evidence
Applied Economics Letters 27: 823-830. (Link)
— Jiang, Hanming, Yiming Zhou, and Hangtian Xu* (2020) Incomplete contracts and allocation of residual claim along the global value chains: Evidence from Japan
Applied Economics Letters 27: 1061-1066. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian and Yiming Zhou* (2019) Public housing provision and housing vacancies in Japan
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 53: 101038. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Si Wang (2019) Urban redevelopment and residential location choice: Evidence from a major earthquake in Japan
Journal of Regional Science 59: 850-882. (Link)
— Li, Zhigang and Hangtian Xu* (2018) High-speed railroads and economic geography: Evidence from Japan
Journal of Regional Science 58: 705-727. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Hidekazu Itoh (2018) Density economies and transport geography: Evidence from the container shipping industry
Journal of Urban Economics 105: 121-132. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Kentaro Nakajima (2017) Highways and industrial development in the peripheral regions of China
Papers in Regional Science 96: 325-356. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* (2016) Domestic railroad infrastructure and exports: Evidence from the Silk Route
China Economic Review 41: 129-147. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Kentaro Nakajima (2016) Did China's coal mine regulation positively affect economic growth?
Resources Policy 50: 160-168. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian*, Hao Zhou, and Liang Liang (2016) The locational dynamics of manufacturing in China's counties: Influence of expressways
Journal of Regional Science 56: 522-543. (Link)
Translated book
— Lectures on Urban Economics by Jan K. Brueckner, original book published by the MIT Press in 2011.
Translated by Hangtian Xu (from English to Chinese), published by the Economics & Management Publishing House (Beijing) in 2023.
“[美]简·布鲁克纳/著, 徐航天/译, 城市经济学讲义, 经济管理出版社, 2023.”
Competitive research grants
— General Program Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022-2025, PI
— Young Scientists Fund, Humanity and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China, 2021-2024, PI
— Young Scientists Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2020, PI
— General Program Fund, Social Science Association of Hunan Province, 2017-2019, PI
— Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2014-2015, PI
Previous positions
— Associate Professor (2017-2020), School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China
— Assistant Professor (2015-2016), School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China
— JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) (2015-2015), Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
— JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) (2014-2015), Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Education
— Ph.D. in Economics (2012-2015, with honors), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
— M.A. in Management (2009-2012), Tongji University, Shanghai, China
— B.S. in Mathematics (2005-2009), Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Personal information
Year of birth: 1988
Nationality: P. R. China
Marital status: Married, one child
Last updated: March 2024
Contemporary Economic Policy, accepted.
— Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki, Meng Li, Yuxiong Xiao, Hangtian Xu*, and Yiming Zhou (2023) Financial crisis and within-city heterogeneity in land prices: The role of REIT penetration
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, forthcoming. (Link)
— Chen, Nana, Hangtian Xu*, and Yang Xu (2024) Family planning and fertility inequality: Evidence from the abolition of China's One-Child Policy
Asian Economic Journal 38: 86-117. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* (2023) Commercial-to-residential land-use conversion and residential recentralization in large cities
Canadian Journal of Economics 56: 306-338. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian and Yiming Zhou* (2023) Inter-industry trade and heterogeneous firms: Country size matters
Japanese Economic Review 74: 57-81. (Link)
— He, Yu*, Xiujian Peng, and Hangtian Xu (2020) Overeducation, market recognition, and effective labour supply
China Economic Review 59: 101384. (Link)
— Huang, Zhenxiong, Hangtian Xu, Jianming Li, and Nengsheng Luo* (2020) Has highway construction narrowed the urban-rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities
Papers in Regional Science 99: 705-723. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Hidekazu Itoh (2020) Path dependence in port choice: Some quasi-experimental evidence
Applied Economics Letters 27: 823-830. (Link)
— Jiang, Hanming, Yiming Zhou, and Hangtian Xu* (2020) Incomplete contracts and allocation of residual claim along the global value chains: Evidence from Japan
Applied Economics Letters 27: 1061-1066. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian and Yiming Zhou* (2019) Public housing provision and housing vacancies in Japan
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 53: 101038. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Si Wang (2019) Urban redevelopment and residential location choice: Evidence from a major earthquake in Japan
Journal of Regional Science 59: 850-882. (Link)
— Li, Zhigang and Hangtian Xu* (2018) High-speed railroads and economic geography: Evidence from Japan
Journal of Regional Science 58: 705-727. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Hidekazu Itoh (2018) Density economies and transport geography: Evidence from the container shipping industry
Journal of Urban Economics 105: 121-132. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Kentaro Nakajima (2017) Highways and industrial development in the peripheral regions of China
Papers in Regional Science 96: 325-356. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* (2016) Domestic railroad infrastructure and exports: Evidence from the Silk Route
China Economic Review 41: 129-147. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian* and Kentaro Nakajima (2016) Did China's coal mine regulation positively affect economic growth?
Resources Policy 50: 160-168. (Link)
— Xu, Hangtian*, Hao Zhou, and Liang Liang (2016) The locational dynamics of manufacturing in China's counties: Influence of expressways
Journal of Regional Science 56: 522-543. (Link)
Translated book
— Lectures on Urban Economics by Jan K. Brueckner, original book published by the MIT Press in 2011.
Translated by Hangtian Xu (from English to Chinese), published by the Economics & Management Publishing House (Beijing) in 2023.
“[美]简·布鲁克纳/著, 徐航天/译, 城市经济学讲义, 经济管理出版社, 2023.”
Competitive research grants
— General Program Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022-2025, PI
— Young Scientists Fund, Humanity and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China, 2021-2024, PI
— Young Scientists Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2020, PI
— General Program Fund, Social Science Association of Hunan Province, 2017-2019, PI
— Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2014-2015, PI
Previous positions
— Associate Professor (2017-2020), School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China
— Assistant Professor (2015-2016), School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China
— JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) (2015-2015), Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
— JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) (2014-2015), Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Education
— Ph.D. in Economics (2012-2015, with honors), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
— M.A. in Management (2009-2012), Tongji University, Shanghai, China
— B.S. in Mathematics (2005-2009), Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Personal information
Year of birth: 1988
Nationality: P. R. China
Marital status: Married, one child
Last updated: March 2024