The School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is nationally renowned for its dedication to excellence in teaching and research. The School offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. programs in Economics. It is the intellectual home of 70 faculty members and 714 undergraduate and 251 graduate students (Fall 2009).
With the implementation of a special education reform project called "Economics Innovation Platform", jointly funded by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance as well as Shanghai Government, the School is currently in a phase of moving quickly toward the best economics program in China and building up an international academic reputation in economics. During the past five years, the School has recruited over thirty tenure-track faculty members from renowned universities in the world, such as Yale, Berkeley, Cornell, and Oxford. In the next three years, we will continue to hire up to 20 faculty members with Ph.D. from top universities in North America and Europe. The faculty have published a large number of high quality papers in peer refereed journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Games and Economic Behavior, and Annals of Statistics, etc.
History of the School
The School of Economics has a long history of excellence in economics teaching and research. In the early thirties of the last century, when the University was called the National Shanghai College of Commence, the Center for Economics Research was established. The Center became the Department of Economics in 1980 and was renamed The School of Economics in 2000. Renowned professors such as Yefang Sun, Jichuang Hu, and Chengxian Song once worked in the School. Currently, the School has a large number of distinguished economists including Min Tan, Guoqiang Tian, and Jimmy Chan.
In July 2004, Guoqiang Tian, a professor of economics at the Texas A&M University in the US, was appointed Dean of the School. He is the first Dean ever hired from overseas by a mainland Chinese university. Under his leadership and with full support from the University, the School initiated historic economics reform and opened a new chapter in China’s economics education.
SOE Leadership
Dean: Guoqiang Tian
Secretary of the Party Committee: Lin Cheng
Associate Dean: Yonggang Hu (Executive), Guan Gong, Jijun Xia
Vice Secretary of the Party Committee: Weidong Yang
Assistant to Dean: Jijun Tan, Junji Xiao, Jinxiong Chang, Xinyu Qi, Qinyue Zhang
For more information, please visit the School website:
http://se.shufe.edu.cn/
Contact
Tel.: +86 21 65903687
E-mail: jjxybgs@mail.shufe.edu.cn
Institute for Advanced Research
The Institute for Advanced Research (IAR) of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, established in July 2006, is a comprehensive intra-system academic and policy research institute and the principal component of SUFE Economics Innovation Platform program.
The inauguration of IAR is SUFE’s new exploration into system innovation and also a pioneering attempt to integrate foreign and domestic resources to create an international economics research platform. It aims to establish a platform with high starting point to solicit domestic and foreign research forces by way of project teams, to undertake influential research projects, to produce high level research achievements and to promote academic exchange. Moreover, it will further its research on critical and hot issues over China’s economic system transformation and reform by using internationally advanced theories and thus contribute to the solutions to the practical problems faced by China in its reform and transformation as well as to the development of modern economic theory.
The innovative research team currently consists of 40-plus members, including over 30 PhDs in Economics from such world-renowned universities as Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, Oxford University, Cornell University and a number of academic leaders and experts from SUFE School of Economics, School of Finance, School of International Business Administration, School of Public Economics and Administration, as well as Department of Statistics, etc. With the joining of more overseas talents and the enhanced integration of intra-SUFE resources, the strength of the research team will be elevated to a new height.
Currently the institute has established Survey Research Center, Center for Global Studies in Education, Center for Environment and Natural Resources Studies, China Center for Agriculture and Coordinated Rural and Urban Development, Center for Health Economics, Public Policy Evaluation Center, Center for Research on Chinese Economy, Center for Regulation and Competition Policy, Commercial Consulting Center and Postdoctoral Center, etc.
IAR Leadership
Dean: Guoqiang Tian
Associate Dean: Chunrong Ai (Executive), Jijun Tan, Fang Wang
For more information, please visit the IAR website:
http://iar.shufe.edu.cn/
Contact
Tel.: +86 21 65903204
E-mail: econiar@mail.shufe.edu.cn
