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HUP Mark
Research Assistant Professor
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Education
  • BSc. (Hons, cum laude) in Economics (Utrecht University)
  • MSSc in Global Political Economy (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • MPhil in Economics (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • General Visiting Student (Peking University)
  • PhD in Economics (University of California, Irvine)
Research Interest
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Economic History
  • Public Economics
  • Development Economics

I am an applied economist specializing in economic history, public economics, and development. My main strand of research focuses on the impacts of trade shocks and state capacity on fiscal modernization, a key aspect of long-run development. Specifically, I study the transition from in-kind taxation to monetary taxation and ask how and why money-based and centralized fiscal institutions emerged. Beyond this strand of research, I also study migration, the economic consequences of coercion, and the role of monetary policy risk in financial markets.

  • “Dissertation Summary: Essays on Fiscal Modernization, Labor Coercion, State Capacity and Trade”“Dissertation Summary: Essays on Fiscal Modernization, Labor Coercion, State Capacity and Trade”(2023). Journal of Economic History, 83(2), 608-611.
  • “Public Functions, Private Markets: Credit Registration by Aldermen and Notaries in the Low Countries,1500–1800” (with Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker). (2018). In: Lorenzini M., LorandiniC., Coffman D. (eds.) Financing in Europe. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. PalgraveMacmillan, Cham.
  • “Labor Coercion and Trade: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia.” [Award: Charles A. Lave Paper Prize Award (UC Irvine).]
  • “Labor Coercion, Fiscal Modernization, and State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia.” ConditionallyAccepted at Explorations in Economic History. [Awards: Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize (Public Choice Society), Jan Lucassen Award (European Social ScienceHistory Association), A. Kimball Romney Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper (UC Irvine).]
  • “Policy Risk and Financial Markets: Evidence from 1930s China” (with Liuyan Zhao). Under Review.
  • “Brain Gain in Late Colonial Indonesia? New Evidence on Chinese Migration and Wages” (with Pimde Zwart). CEPR Discussion Paper DP18748. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of EconomicHistory.
  • “Tax Farming and State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia.”
  • Finalist, Alexander Gerschenkron Dissertation Prize, Economic History Association 2022
  • Finalist, Ronald H. Coase Best Dissertation Award,Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics 2022
  • Charles A. Lave Paper Prize Award, UC Irvine 2021
  • A. Kimball Romney Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper, UC Irvine 2020
  • Jan Lucassen Award, European Social Science History Association 2020
  • Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize, Public Choice Society 2020
  • Department of Economics Best Thesis Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014
  • Netspar Bachelor Thesis Award, Netspar 2011

2025-2026:

1st Term
GLEF4090: RESEARCH PROJECT ON GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

2nd Term
ECON5522: ECONOMETRIC METHODS FOR POLICY EVALUATION

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