Zhang Jun
Title: Associate Professor
Office: Mingde Main Building, Room 0504A
Tel: Email: junzhang@ruc.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Industrial Economics, Energy and Environmental Economics, Food Consumption and Health
Biography:
Zhang Jun is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Agricultural and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, and a Young Scholar under the Renmin University "Outstanding Scholar Program" (B position). He graduated in 2019 from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, under the joint supervision of two advisors from the Department of Economics and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. In the same year, he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student title by the department. His main research areas include Industrial Economics, Energy and Environmental Economics, and Food Consumption and Health. His research has been published in leading international journals in economics, such as The Rand Journal of Economics, Health Services Research, Transportation Research Part A, Food Policy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, and Journal of Policy Modeling. His co-authored paper won the Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics at the International Industrial Organization Conference and the Renmin University Outstanding Research Achievement Award. He has led a National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund project and participated in several other horizontal and vertical projects.
Publications：
Xu, Shang, and Jun Zhang* (2023). The welfare impacts of removing coal subsidies in rural China, Energy Economics, 118: 106489.
Zhang, Jun, Hongxu Shi, and Jiping Sheng* (2022). The effects of message framing on novel food introduction: Evidence from the artificial meat products in China, Food Policy, 112: 102361.
Feifei Chen, Huanguang Qiu, and Jun Zhang* (2022). Energy Consumption and Income of the Poor in Rural China: Inference for Poverty Measures, Energy Policy, 163: 112865.
Li, Sophia, Joe Mazur, Yongjoon Park, James Roberts, Andrew Sweeting, and Jun Zhang（2022）. Repositioning and Market Power after Airline Mergers, The Rand Journal of Economics, 53(1):166-199.
Dong, Han, Jun Zhang, and Cinzia Cirillo (2019). Exploring, Understanding, and Modeling the Reciprocal Relation between Leisure and Subjective Well-being, Transportation Research Part A:Policy and Practice, 130:813-824。
Zhang, Jun, and Steven Yen (2017). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Food Insecurity among Families with Children, Journal of Policy Modeling, 39 (1):52–64.
Zhang, Jun, and Steven Yen (2015). Physical Activity, Gender Difference and Depressive Symptoms, Health Services Research, 50 (5):1550–1573.