BA (Sichuan University); MA (Nankai University); PhD (Western Ontario)

Professor in Public Economics; Reader/Associate Professor; Senior Lecturer, 2001-present, University of Queensland, Australia

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, 2004-present

Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Jan-June 2003      

Reader/Associate Professor; Senior Lecturer; Lecturer, 1995-2001, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Research Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January-April 2001

Visiting Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada, January-April 2000

Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Canada, 1994-1995

Assistant Professor, University of Windsor, Canada, 1993-1994

Policy Analyst, Committee of Economic Reform, Chongqing, 1984-1985

• “Subsidies in an R&D Growth Model with Elastic Labor.” (with Jinli Zeng) Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 31, 861-886 (2007)
   
•  “Inflation Taxation and Welfare with Externalities and Leisure.” (with Wai-Ming Ho and Jinli Zeng) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 39, 105-131 (2007).
   
•  “Second Best Debt with Human Capital Externalities.” Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 30, 347-360 (2006).
   
• “Income ranking and convergence with physical and human capital and income inequality.“ Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 29, 547-566 (2005).
   
• “An Economic Analysis of Life Expectancy with an Application in the United States.” (with Michael Leung and Junsen Zhang), Journal of Health Economics 23, 737-759 (2004).
   
•  “Long-Run Effects of Unfunded Social Security with Earnings-Dependent Benefits.” (with Junsen Zhang) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 28, 617-641 (2003)
   
• “Optimal Debt, Endogenous Fertility, and Human Capital Externalities in a Model with Altruistic Bequests.” Journal of Public Economics 87, 1825-1835 (2003)
   
•  “Rising Longevity, Unintended Bequests, and Endogenous Growth.” (with Ronald Lee and Junsen Zhang) Journal of Development Economics 70, 83-101 (2003)
   
•  “Mortality Decline and Long-Run Economic Growth.” (with Junsen Zhang and Ronald Lee) Journal of Public Economics 80, 485-507 (2001)
   
• “Consumption vs. Income Taxes When Private Human Capital Investments Are Imperfectly Observable.” (with James Davies and Jinli Zeng) Journal of Public Economics 77, 1-28 (2000)
   
• “Gender Bias and Economic Development in an Endogenous Growth Model.” (with Junsen Zhang and Tianyu Li) Journal of Development Economics 59, 497-525 (1999)
   
• “Social Security and Endogenous Growth.” Journal of Public Economics 58, 185-213 (1995)