Professor Laixiang Sun
Director of the Department of Financial & Management Studies
Email: ls28@soas.ac.uk
Room: 528
Research Interests:
- Corporate governance and corporate finance;
- Comparative economics;
- Chinese economy and Chinese business management;
- Applied econometrics
Selected Publications
2009 “Incorporating Technology Diffusion, Factor Mobility and Structural Change into cross-region Growth Regression: An application to China”, Journal of Regional Science (Blackwell Publishing), forthcoming (co-authors: Eunsuk Hong and Tao Li).
2009 “State Ownership and Corporate Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Chinese Listed Companies,” China Economic Review (Elsevier), published on line 13 June 2009 (co-authors: Tao LI and Liang ZOU).
2009 “Risk-adjusted Approaches for Planning Sustainable Agriculture”, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Springer Berlin/Heidelberg), vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 441-450 (May 2009) (co-authors: G. Fischer, T. Ermolieva, Y. Ermoliv).
2009 “International Listing as a Means to Mobilize the Benefits of Financial Globalization: Micro-Level Evidence from China”, World Development (Elsevier), vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 825–838 (April 2009) (co-author: Damian Tobin).
2009 “International Listing as a Means to Mobilize the Benefits of Financial Globalization: Micro-Level Evidence from China”, World Development Vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 825-838 (April) (Elsevier), (co-author: Damian Tobin).
2009 “Challenging, Complementing or Assuming ‘the Mandate of Heaven’? Political Distrust and the Rise of Self-Governing Social Organizations in Rural China,” Journal of Comparative Economics (Elsevier), vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 151-168 (March 2009) (co-authors: Vanesa Pesqué-Cela, Ran Tao, Yongdong Liu).
2008 “Dream of the Red Financial Supermarket: The Gradual Emergence of Integrated Financial Services Provision in China in the 21st Century”, Journal of Chinese Economic & Business Studies (Taylor & Francis), vol. 6, no. 4 (October 2008) (co-author: Sebastian Brück).
2007 “Achieving Effective Governance under Divided Government and Private Interest Group Pressure: Taiwan’s 2001 Financial Holding Company Law,” Journal of Contemporary China (Routledge), vol. 16, no. 53 (November 2007), pp. 655-680 (co-author: Sebastian Brück).
2006 (with Eunsuk Hong) “Dynamics of Internationalization and Outward Investment: Chinese Corporations' Strategies”, China Quarterly (Cambridge University Press), no. 187 (Sep 2006), pp. 610-634.
2005 (with Damian Tobin). “International Listing as a Mechanism of Commitment to More Credible Corporate Governance Practices: the case of the Bank of China (Hong Kong)”, Corporate Governance: An International Review (Blackwell Publishing), vol. 13, no. 1 (Jan 2005), pp. 81-91.
2005 (with Klaus Hubacek) “Changes in China's Economy and Society and Their Effects on Water Use: A Scenerio Analysis”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 197-200.
2004 (with Hui LIU, Xiubin LI, and Günther Fischer) “Study on the Impact of Climate Change on China’s Agriculture”, Climatic Change (Kluwer Academic Publishers), vol. 65, issue 1-2 (July 2004), pp. 125-148.
2004 (with Stefan Giljum, Klaus Hubacek) “Beyond the Simple Material Balance: A Reply to Sangwong Suh’s Note on Physical Input-Output Analysis”, Ecological Economics (Elsevier Science), vol. 48, no. 1 (Jan. 2004), pp. 19-22.
2002 “Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance”, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 754-758.
2001 “Price Scissors, Rationing, and Coercion: An Extended Framework for Understanding Primitive Socialist Accumulation”, Economics of Planning, vol. 34, no 3, pp. 195-213.
2001 (with G. Fischer) “Model Based Analysis of Future Land Use Development in China”, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 85, pp. 163-176.
2001 (with K. Hubacek) “A Scenario Analysis of China’s Land Use and Land Cover Change: Incorporating Biophysical Information into Input-Output Modeling”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 12 (No 4): 367-397.
2000 (with L. Zou) “Liability Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Firms’ Investment and Liquidation Decisions”, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 739-762.
1998 “Estimating Investment Functions Based on Cointegration: The Case of China,” Journal of Comparative Economics (Academic Press), Vol. 26, No.1 (March 1998), pp.175-191.
1996 “Interest Rate Policy and Incentives of State-Owned Enterprises in the Transitional China,” Journal of Comparative Economics (Academic Press), Vol. 23, No.3 (December. 1996), pp. 292-318 (co-author: Liang ZOU).
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Topics in Finance and Management, PhD students
- Corporate Governance, MSc and PhD students
- Management in China II: International Perspectives
Curriculum Vitae
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