Four decades after China’s reform and opening-up, globalization is now facing a structural adjustment. International finance, trade, and business are all entering a new stage of development. China is now facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. It is important in this new era to reconstruct the international trading system, reform the international financial system, and improve global governance mechanisms, and there is much progress to be made.

Research Center for International Finance and Economics Research was established in November 2017 as an academic, policy and enterprise research institution that focuses on international finance, international trade and global governance. It is based in the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University. With the mission of “Gathering talents, rooting in China, and serving the world”, the center is committed to becoming a platform for research and communication for outstanding international economists to promote the development and application of international economic theories.

The center pays attention to economic events in China, and focuses on major theoretical and policy issues in the fields of international finance and economics, and makes full use of Tsinghua University's advantages in theoretical research, international exchange and policy communication to build an international platform that serves national strategies and promotes global development. At present, the team has the top international economics research center in China, conducting research in major branches of international economics. Research interests include Sino-American trade relations, global economic governance reconstruction, preventing and defusing major risks, new international currency systems, exchange rate determination theory and exchange rate forecasting, industrial restructuring and industrial policy research, commodity trade and supply chain finance, dynamic structure analysis and new economic geography.

The Center is led by JU Jiandong, Chair Professor at PBC School of Finance in Tsinghua University, Associate Dean of The National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua University, Chairman of China Trade Research Group (CTRG), Director of Center for Green Finance Research (CGFR), PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. After receiving his doctorate in Economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1995, he served as assistant, associate and full professor at University of Oklahoma and professor at School of Economics and Management in Tsinghua University. He was the Dean of International School of Business Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics from 2014 to 2017. He was a resident scholar in International Monetary Fund and consulted for World Bank and other policy organizations. He focused his research on International Trade, International Finance and Industrial Organization, and the main teaching courses are Advanced International Trade and Finance. His work has been published in American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal and other journals. He received 2016 Pushan Award for Excellent Papers on International Economics ,2020 Ministry of Education 8th award for outstanding scientific research in economics and 2021 Excellent teacher in Beijing University by Beijing Municipal Education Commission, In 2023, the achievements of Ju Jiandong's team were selected as one of Tsinghua University's most notable highlights of the year, garnering significant attention from faculty and students. His course, "China-US Trade Dispute and Globalization Re-Architecture" not only made it into the second batch of "National First-Class Undergraduate Courses," but was also awarded "Tsinghua University Distinguished Course", “High-Quality Undergraduate Course at Universities in Beijing”.

For recruitment, cooperation, and other matters, please contact: cifer@pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn

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Research Center for International Finance and Economics
Jiandong Ju Chen Huang Lu Feng Qingqing Niu Yunxuan Zhu Bin Liu Xinding Yu Xin Li Bingnian Li Xiao Chen Yingxin Du Bing Lu Jialiang Zhang	Director Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow Part-time Research Fellow