School of Economics

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 in its four departments of Economics, Economic History, Political Economy and Quantitative Economics. It is the intellectual home of 74 faculty members and 714 undergraduate and 259 graduate students (Fall 2010).

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 six years, the School has recruited over thirty tenure-track faculty members from renowned universities in the world, such as Harvard, 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

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.