Sudong Hua

Bio

Sudong Hua received his Ph.D. in Economics from Hong Kong Baptist University in October 2025. In December of the same year, he began his postdoctoral research at the Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.

Dr. Hua’s primary research interests lie in macroeconomics and finance, with a focus on macro labor, business cycles, production networks, and information and behavioral finance. In addition, he is actively engaged in research on the Chinese economy.

Education Experience

• 2021.9-2025.8 PhD in Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Work Experience

• 2023.5-2023.8 Visiting Scholar, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University.
• 2021.5-2021.9 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University.
• 2017.8-2020.8 Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Temple University.
• 2016.1-2017.5 Graduate trainee, Ping An Bank.

Honors and Awards

RES PhD Scholar Fund, Journal of International Economics Summer School financial support, First-class award of Peikang Chang China Economics Graduate Student Conference, First-Class award of PhD Research Competition at Shandong University (3X), TUGSA International Graduate Student Fundraiser Prize.

Publications

1. Place-based Policies Develop Digital Enterprises: Evidence from Digital Parks, Empirical Economics, 2025, 02839-5, with Xinju He, Lanxin Liu, Hu Fu, Chuanjiang Yu.
2. Brand Capital and Rent Sharing: Evidence from Firm-Level Data, Economics Letters, 2025, 112473.
3. Home Production, Skill Heterogeneity and the Labor Wedge. 
4. Limits to Skill-based Countercyclical Adaptation in Business Cycles. 
5. On the Importance of Information Quality and Returns. 
6. Myopia and Anchoring in Financial Markets. 
7. Openness and Volatility in Global Production Network, with Fei Zhou. 
8. The Rise and Fall of Energy Efficiency after Establishing the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, with Xinju He, Y. Lin, L. Zhang.
9. Collaborative Competition in China’s Environmental Governance: Evidence from the River Chef System, wiht Xinju He.
10. Ownership, Location, and China’s Structural Efficiency Dynamics in Banking, with Xinju He.