The Department of Risk Management and Insurance
Yu Zhang
Zhang, Yu
Assistant Professor
Department of Risk Management and Insurance, School of Insurance and Economics (SIE)
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
Rm. 507, Bldg. Boxue, No. 10 Huixin East Street
Beijing, China, 100029
Phone: +86 15010702460
Email: zhangy2119@uibe.edu.cn
2023
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, SIE, UIBE, 2018-PRESENT
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2018
M.S., Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2012
B.A., Demography and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, 2011
RESEARCH INTEREST
Household finance, Demographic economics, Risk Management, Development economics,
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Published and Accepted Articles (In the past 10 years)
[1] Subjective Beliefs and Ambiguity Aversion, 2022, Economics Letters, 212, 110290.
[2] Asset Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing: Disaster-coping Strategies in Non-contiguous and Contiguous Destitute Areas, with Li Zhou, Jie Sun and Wuyang Hu, 2022, China and World Economy, In press.
[3] Note on Urbanization in China: Urban Definitions and Census Data, with Bo Qin, China Economic Review, 2014, 30, 495-502. (Corresponding author: Zhang, Y.).
[4] Gray Correlation Analysis on Population Factors and Housing Sales Price Index (HSPI) (in Chinese), with Benfeng Du, Population Journal, 2011, 1(6), 11-17.
[5] Infant Mortality Rate Statistic Methods and Difference Analysis in China, with Benfeng Du, Open Journal of Statistics, 2011, 1(3), 236-243.
COURSES TAUGHT
Financial Planning and Insurance (Undergraduate, UIBE)
The Operation and Management of Insurance Companies (Master, UIBE)
Marine Insurance (Undergraduate, UIBE)
Optimization Methods in Mathematical Finance and its Application with Matlab (PhD, UIBE)
MEMBERSHIP IN ASSOCIATIONS
The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
The American Economic Association
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
The Chinese Economist Society
The European Real Estate Society
The Midwest Economics Association
STUDENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Student Service
Thesis Supervisor
Guide an average of 5 undergraduate students per year since 2018
Guide an average of 2 master students per year since 2019
Thesis Defense Committee
Participate in bachelor’s thesis defense every year
Participate in master’s thesis defense every year
Public Service
RESEARCH GRANTS
Project Investigator, Ex-ante Optimization on Childbearing Subsidies in Mainland China, “The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” in UIBE (21QN02), 2022-2024.
Co-Project Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Data-Driven Actuarial Pricing Models for Green Insurance: Theory and Applications”, 2023-2026.
Co-Project Investigator, China Reinsurance Group, “Research on the Mechanisms and Path of Insurance Industry Supporting the Oversea Risk Management of State-owned Enterprises”, 2020-2021.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Research Awards and Honors
The Best paper award for the 2019 European Real Estate Society annual conference.
First prize in the 2018 International Real Estate Conference paper competition.
The 2017 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Research Travel Grant.
Honor Society of Agriculture (Gamma Sigma Delta), 2014
Teaching Awards and Honors
Top 10% in Graduate Student Teaching Evaluation of UIBE (2022)
Conference Presentations
Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2022 Conference, Japan, 2022
The Chinese Economists Society (CES) Annual Conference, Online meeting, 2022
China-International Risk Forum – CIRF, Online meeting, 2022
The 13th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, Online meeting, 2021;
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Online meeting, 2020;
SMU Conference on Urban and Regional Economics, Singapore, 2019;
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - Allied Social Science Associations (AREUEA-ASSA) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2019;
Chinese Economist Society (CES) North America Conference 2018, Athens, Georgia, 2018;
Midwest Economics Association (MEA) Annual Meeting 2018, Evanston, Illinois, 2018;
AREUEA-ASSA Conference, Doctoral Session, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2018;
The 9th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, Beijing, China, 2017;
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2017;
Real Estate and Housing PhD Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2017;
Midwest Economics Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2017;
Chinese Economist Society (CES) North America Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2017;
The 8th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, Beijing, China, 2016;
North America Regional Science Council (NARSC) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013;
Midwest Graduate Student Summit on Regional, Population, Health, and Environmental (RPHE) Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2012;
Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2012.
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