Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Global Value Chain Institute; Overseas Dean. Senior Research Fellow at the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, USA. Formerly served as Senior International Economist in the Research Division of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) and as the U.S. Chair of the APEC Technical Group on Trade in Value Added (TiVA).

Email: wangzhi@uibe.edu.cn

Awards:

2014: Peikang Chang Development Economics Award (with Koopman and Shang-jin Wei)

2012: Distinguished service award, U.S. International Trade Commission

2005: Cash in your account award for contribution to develop method of estimating structural distribution of statistical discrepancy in U.S. national accounts, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

2002: SunYe-Fang Economic Science Price (with Yan Wang, Dianqing Xu and Fan Zhai)

2001: USDA Certificate of Merit for an innovative trade model supporting WTO negotiations

1999: Research grant from Research Committee of the World Bank (with Yan Wang and Fan Zhai)

1998: Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society

1997: Research grant from Ford foundation (Managed by Washington Center for China Studies)

1993: Honor member of Chinese Economists Society (CES)

1992: MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program Pre-dissertation Award

1990: Outstanding Master Thesis Award, American Agricultural Economics Association

Publication:

“Domestic Value-added in China’s Exports and Its distribution by Firm Ownership.” (With Ma Hong and Zhu Kunfu), Journal of Comparative Economics, 43(1):3-18, 2015.

“Tracing Value-added and Double Counting in Gross Exports”, (with R. Koopman and Shang-jin Wei), American Economic Review, 104(2):459-494, 2014.

“Estimating domestic content in exports when processing trade is pervasive.” (with R. Koopman and Shang-jin Wei), 99(1):178-189, Journal of Development Economics, 2012.

“Evasion behavior of exporters and importers: Evidence from the U.S.-China trade data discrepancy.” (with M. Ferrantino and Xuepeng Liu), Journal of International Economics, 86(1):141-157, 2012.

“How Vertically Specialized is Chinese Trade,” (with Judy Dean and K.C. Fang), Review of International Economics, 19(4):609-625, 2011.

“The Nature of U.S.-China Trade in Advanced Technology Products,” (with M. Ferrantino, R. Koopman and Falan Yinug, Comparative Economic Studies, page 1-18, Summer, 2010.

“A Globally Consistent Framework for Reliability-based Trade Statistics Reconciliation in the Presence of an Entrepôt”, (with M. Gehlhar and Shuli Yao), China Economic Review, 21(1):161-189, March 2010.