Zi Wang
Department of Economics
The Pennsylvania State University
401 Kern Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (618)-645-2809
Email: zxw120@psu.edu
Website: http://www.ziwangecon.com/
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
(expected) May 2016
M.A. in Economics, Peking University , China
2011
B.A. in Economics (with distinction), Peking University, China
2008
PERSONAL
Male, China, F-1 Visa.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Primary: International Trade
Secondary: International Finance. Quantitative Methods.
PH.D. THESIS
"Essays on International Trade and Multinational Production."
Thesis Advisor: Stephen Yeaple
WORKING
PAPERS
"Headquarters Gravity," (Job market paper), 2015.
"Multinational Production and External Economies of Scale ", 2015.
WORK
IN PROGRESS
“Matching buyers and sellers in international trade: An application in the U.S.
and Colombian Customs Records,” with James Tybout, 2015.
"Estimating Domestic Trade Costs from International Trade Data", with Kai Li,
2015.
"Multinational Production and Factor Content Trade", 2015.
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Prof. James Tybout, NSF-1426785, "International BuyerSeller Matches", 2014-2016.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
TA for Introductory Microeconomics, Penn State
TA for Graduate-level Macroeconomics, Peking Univ.
PRESENTATIONS
Midwest Economics Association annual meeting
"Multinational Production and External Economies of Scale."
Trade and Development Workshop, Penn State
"Headquarters Gravity."
SKILLS
Computer: Matlab, Python, Julia, STATA, Latex.
Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent).
2013
2010, 2011
Spring 2015
Fall 2015
REFFERENCES
JOB MARKET
PAPER
ABSTRACT
Stephen Yeaple (Chair)
Jonathan Eaton
James Tybout
Department of Economics
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Email: sry3@psu.edu
Department of Economics
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Email: jxe22@psu.edu
Department of Economics
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Email: jxt32@psu.edu
"Headquarters Gravity," 2015.
This paper develops a general equilibrium model in which multinational
firms (MNEs) transfer both productive knowledge and connections with
international markets to their affiliates. The key feature of this model is
that it allows a MNE's export cost to each market to depend on how close
this market is to its production locations (gravity) and to its headquarters
location (headquarters gravity). The model provides a framework that can
estimate headquarters gravity consistently in Chinese firm data. The
estimates suggest that MNEs in China face substantially lower export costs
to markets closer to their headquarters. Consequently, their iceberg export
costs are on average 28 percent lower than those of Chinese firms. This
difference in export costs account for about a quarter of Chinese
manufacturing exports in 2001.