Shang-jin Wei
N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy Columbia Business School
In addition to teaching at Columbia, Wei is also Director for the National Bureau of Economic Research's Working Group on the Chinese Economy and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe). Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Wei served with the International Monetary Fund, the Brookings Institution, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has undertaken consulting work for both private companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and government organizations such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations. Wei has published extensively on topics on international finance, trade, and the Chinese economy in leading academic journals. His research has also been reported in the business and popular press. Wei's co-author Xiaobo Zhang presented their research on "bride prices and real estate prices" at our 2011 conference on the State of the Chinese Economy. Wei received his MS in business administration (finance) and Ph.d in economics from University of California, Berkeley.
See a video of Professor Wei's talk on bride prices here