Qidi Hu

Bio

Qidi Hu received his Ph.D. in Economics from Queen’s University in November 2025. In December of the same year, he began his postdoctoral research at the Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.

Dr. Hu’s primary research interests lie in empirical industrial organization and applied microeconomics. He is also actively engaged in research on the digital economy and digital finance.

Education Experience

• 2014.9-2018.6 Shandong Normal University, Bachelor of Management-Financial Management
• 2016.9-2018.8 University of Waterloo, Honours B.A. in Economics (Minor in Mathematics)
• 2018.9-2019.6 University of Toronto, M.A. in Economics
• 2019.9-2025.11 Queen’s University, Ph.D. in Economics

Work Experience

• 2018.9-2019.6 Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto
• 2019.9-2025.4 Teaching Assistant at Queen’s University

Honors and Awards

• Conference Travel Award (Queen’s University)
• Queen’s Graduate Award
• ECON Departmental Award (Queen’s University)
• ECON FAS IQGA  (Queen’s University)
• International Tuition Award  (Queen’s University)
• Neil Morrison Fellowship in Economics  (Queen’s University)
• Governor General’s Academic Medal (Silver)
• Economics Achievement Award (University of Waterloo)
• Statistics & Actuarial Science Competition Prize (DataFest)
• Robin K. Banks Scholarship

Publications

• Auctions vs Negotiations under Corruption: Evidence from Land Sales in China （https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698178）
• The Impact of Auction Timing on Bidding Behaviors:
• Evidence from the Chinese Land Market （https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQd-tm8TzIVVqCDxEBusMesCi8WeMgrO/view）
• Position Auctions with Organic Search （https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q3uvL2bjAS_uvXPeTyJxNCdpvnluoBR0/view）