The Director of the Institute of Regional and Urban Economics

E-mail：yihua.yu@ruc.edu.cn

Publications:

1. Yu, Yihua, Li Zhang, Fanghua Li, and Xinye Zheng* (2013) Strategic interaction and the determinants of public health expenditures in China: A spatial panel perspective.  Annals of Regional Science  50(1): 203–221

2. Yu, Yihua* and Dan Rickman (2013) U.S. state and local fiscal policies and nonmetropolitan area economic performance: A spatial equilibrium analysis.  Papers in Regional Science  92(3): 579–597

3. Zheng, Xinye, Fanghua Li, Shunfeng Song, and Yihua Yu* (2013) Central government’s infrastructure investment across Chinese regions: A dynamic spatial panel data approach.  China Economic Review  27(1): 25–36

4. Zheng, Xinye, Yihua Yu*, Jing Wang, and Huihui Deng (2014) Identifying the determinants and spatial nexus of provincial carbon intensity in China: a dynamic spatial panel approach.  Regional Environmental Change  14(4): 1651–1661

5. Yu, Yihua*, Jing Wang, and Xi Tian (2016) Identifying the flypaper effect in the presence of spatial dependence: evidence from education in China’s cities.  Growth and Change  47(1): 93–110

6. Zheng, Xinye, Feng Song, Yihua Yu*, and Shunfeng Song (2015) In search of fiscal interactions: a spatial analysis of Chinese provincial infrastructure spending.  Review of Development Economics  19(4): 860–876

7. Yu, Yihua* (2017) Empirical spatial econometrics: Applications to China’s economy.  Emerging Markets Finance and Trade  53(9): 1939–1942

8. Yu, Yihua, Xinye Zheng, and Li Zhang* (2017) Yardstick competition and the formation of enterprise zones in China.  Emerging Markets Finance and Trade  53(9): 1961–1972

9. Zheng, Xinye, Jing Wang, Xilu Li, and Yihua Yu* (2015) On the supply of China’s healthcare resources in a decentralized healthcare system.  Social Science Journal  52(4): 449–458

10. Yu, Yihua, Li Zhang, Fanghua Li, and Xinye Zheng* (2011) On the determinants of public infrastructure spending in Chinese cities: A spatial econometric perspective.  Social Science Journal 48(3): 458–467

11. Ma, Ben and Yihua Yu* (2017) Industrial structure, energy-saving regulations and energy intensity: Evidence from Chinese cities.  Journal of Cleaner Production  141(10): 1539–1547

12. Yu, Yihua and Jin Guo* (2016) Identifying the electricity saving potential in rural China: Empirical evidence from a household survey.  Energy  Policy  94(1): 1–9

13. Yu, Yihua, Yonghui Zang*, and Feng Song (2015) World energy intensity convergence revisited: a cluster analysis.  Applied Economics Letters  22(4): 1158–1169