Albert Guangzhou Hu - NUS

Contact Information
Albert Guangzhou Hu
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore Tel: (65) 65163957
1 Arts Link Fax: (65) 67752646
Singapore 117570 Email: ecshua@nus.edu.sg
Professional experience
January 2006 – Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
June 1999 - December 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
June - August 1997 Consultant, Development Research Group, World Bank
Education
1999 Ph.D. in international economics, Brandeis University, U.S.A.
1991 B.A. in international finance, Nankai University, P.R.C.
Research interests
Technological change, economic development, international economics, East Asian economies, particularly
the Chinese economy
Courses taught
Undergraduate: Principles of and intermediate microeconomics, international economics, and
economics of technology and internet
Graduate: The modern Chinese economy, international trade, and international trade and finance
EMBA (Chinese): Business environment In Asia
Publications
Journal articles
1. “Ownership, Government R&D, Private R&D, and Productivity in Chinese Industry,” Journal of Comparative
Economics, vol. 29: 136-157, March 2001.
2. “FDI Impact and Spillover: Evidence from Chinas Electronic and Textile Industries” (with Gary H.
Jefferson), World Economy, vol. 25(8): 1063-1076, August 2002.
3. “R&D Organization, Monitoring Intensity, and Innovation Performance in Chinese Industry,” Economics
of Innovation and New Technology, 12(2): 117-144, April 2003.
4. “Ownership, Performance, and Innovation in Chinas Large and Medium-Size Industrial Enterprise
Sector” (with Gary H. Jefferson et al), China Economic Review, 14(1): 89-113, March 2003.
5. “Patent Citation and International Knowledge Flow: the Cases of Korea and Taiwan” (with Adam
B. Jaffe), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21(6): 849-880, June 2003. (also appeared as
NBER Working Paper No. 8528).
6. “Returns to Research and Development in Chinese Industry: Evidence from State-Owned Enterprises
in Beijing” (with Gary H. Jefferson), China Economic Review, 15(1): 86-107, 2004.
7. “Multinational Corporations, Patenting, and Knowledge Flow: The Case of Singapore,” Economic
Development and Cultural Change, 52(4): 781-800, July 2004.
8. “R&D and Technology Transfer in Chinese Industry” (with Gary H. Jefferson and Qian Jinchang),
Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(4): 780-786, November 2005.
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9. “Technology Parks and Regional Economic Growth in China,” Research Policy, 36(1): 76-87, 2007.
10. “The Sources and Sustainability of China’s Economic Growth” (with Gary H. Jefferson and Su Jian),
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2006 (2): 1-60, 2007.
11. “A Great Wall of Patents: What is behind Chinas recent patent explosion?” (with Gary H. Jefferson),
Journal of Development Economics, 90(1): 57-68, September 2009.
12. “The Regionalization of Knowledge Flows in East Asia: Evidence from Patent Citations Data”, World
Development, 37(9): 1465-1477, September 2009. Previously circulated under the title, “Knowledge
Flow in East Asia and Beyond”.
13. “Idea and Innovation in East Asia” (with Milan Brahmbhatt), World Bank Research Observer, 25(2):
177-207, August 2010. Also appeared as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4403; featured
in the International Herald Tribune article,“Turning the tide on knowledge flows”, November 26, 2007.
14. “Propensity to Patent, Competition and China’s Foreign Patenting Surge”, Research Policy, 39(7):
985-993, September 2010.
Book chapters
1. “Wage and Employment Behavior in Chinese Industry”(with Gary H. Jefferson, Inderjit Singh, and
Benzhou Wang), in Enterprise Reform in China: Ownership, Transition, and Performance, Gary H. Jefferson
and Inderjit Singh, eds., Oxford University Press, 1999
2. “Industrial Investment, Finance, and Enterprise Performance in Chinese Industry” (with Gary H.
Jefferson and Inderjit Singh), in Enterprise Reform in China: Ownership, Transition, and Performance,
Gary H. Jefferson and Inderjit Singh, eds., Oxford University Press, 1999.
3. “Climbing the Technology Ladder: Challenges Facing Singapore in a Globalized World” (with Shin
Jang-sup), in The Singapore Economy in the 21st Century: Issues and Strategies, Hui WT, Koh AT, Bhanoji
Rao, Lim KL eds., London: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
4. “Science and Technology in China” (with Gary H. Jefferson), in China’s Great Economic Transformation,
Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
5. “China’s Regional Variations in Patenting” (with Lu Ding), in China’s Science and Technology Sector
and the Forces of Globalization, Elspeth Thomson and Jon Sigurdson, eds., Singapore: World
Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, May 2008.
Other publications
1. Review of Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in China, Wu Yanrui, editor, Journal of Asian
Economics, vol. 11: 471-475, 2000.
2. Op-ed: “China’s exports: What’s really going on” (with Ivan Png), Straits Times, 5 May 2009.
3. Op-ed: “A 13.5 billion dollar question” (with Ivan Png), Lianhe Zaobao (United Daily), 28 March 2006.
4. Op-ed: “Beijing may see itself as stakeholder in Aseans boom”, Straits Times, 18 February 2010.
Working papers/work in progress
1. “Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Cross-country Evidence” (with Ivan Png), under review
2. “Economic Reform and Liberalization and Small- and Medium- sized Enterprises in Chinese Manufacturing
Industries,” in progress
3. “Chinese Patent Reform and U.S. Patenting in China,” in progress
4. “IPR, innovation, economic growth and development” (with Adam B. Jaffe) in progress
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Refereeing
Ad hoc referee for Asia Pacific Journal of Management, China Economic Review, Comparative Economic Studies,
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics of Transition, Economic Inquiry, Economics of Innovation
and New Technology, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Globalization and
Technology, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth,
Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Research Policy, Singapore Economic Review, and
World Development
Consulting experience
Asia Development Bank, World Bank, and World Intellectual Property Organization
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