Guangbin Hong
Address:
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George St
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G7, Canada

Phone: +1-437-981-8200
Email: g.hong@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://www.guangbinhong.com

Education
PhD in Economics, University of Toronto

2018 - 2024 (Expected)
Committee: Joseph B. Steinberg, Nate Baum-Snow, Kory Kroft, Serdar Ozkan, Kevin Lim

MS in Economics, Tufts University

2016 - 2018

Bachelor in Economics, Nankai University

2013 - 2016

Bachelor in Management, Tianjin University

2012 - 2016

Exchange program at Nanyang Technological University (Fall 2014)

Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Spatial Economics, International TradePublications
Optimal Taxation of Multinational Enterprises: A Ramsey Approachwith Sebastian Dyrda and Joseph B. Steinberg
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 141, January 2024

Working Papers
Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality andWelfare (Job Market Paper)– Previously circulated as “Two-Sided Sorting and Spatial Inequality”– EEA and UniCredit Foundation Econ JM Best Paper Award– Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award
A Macroeconomic Perspective on Taxing Multinational Enterprises
with Sebastian Dyrda and Joseph B. Steinberg
Revise and resubmit at Journal of International Economics

Work in Progress
Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale and Wealth Inequality
with Mons Chan, Joachim Hubmer, Serdar Ozkan, and Sergio Salgado

Effects of Global Corporate Tax Reform on the US Economy
with Sebastian Dyrda and Joseph B. Steinberg
Redevelopment, Gentrification, and Neighbourhood Housing Cycles: A General
Equilibrium Approachwith James Macek
Understanding the Urban Earnings Growth PremiumAwards and Grants
The Chinese Economist Society Travel Grant
Econ JM Best Paper Award by the EEA and UniCredit Foundation
Bank of Canada Graduate Student Papaer Award
CRDCN Emerging Scholars Grant
Doctoral Completion Award
University of Toronto Fellowship
Dorothy J. Powell Graduate Scholarship in International Economics
Department of Economics PhD Research Grant
Harry Eastman Graduate Award
Awarded for the most outstanding second-year paper in International Economics
Edward B. Kernaghan FellowshipSamuel Hollander Graduate Award
Henken Family Endowed Graduate Research Fund
Tufts Economics Department Summer Research Scholarship
Tufts Economics Department Tuition Scholarship
Singapore Temasek Foundation TF-LEaRN Scholarship
China National Scholarship – Ministry of Education

2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2018 - 2023
2020, 2023, 2024
2021
2020
2020
2019
2017
2017
2016 - 2018
2014
2013

Conference and Seminar Presentations (including scheduled)
2024: University of Alberta, Business School; Dartmouth College, Tuck Business School; SouthernMethodist University; Michigan State University; University of Sussex (online); Toronto Metropolitan
University; National University of Singapore; University of Hong Kong, HKU Business School; Stockholm University, IIES; Stockholm University, Economics Department; The Chinese Economists Society
North America Conference, Lewisburg; Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto;
AREUEA National Conference, Washington DC; China International Conference in Macroeconomics,
Hong Kong; NBER Summer Institute (Micro Data and Macro Models), Boston
2023: Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award Workshop, Ottawa; RUSH Graduate StudentBrownbag, online; North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, Toronto; Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Logan; Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing; Labor, Firms, and Macro Workshop, online;
Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg; Summer School in Urban Economics,Montréal; Midwest Macro Meetings, Clemson
2022: Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, Madison; Labor, Firms, and Macro Workshop,
online2019: 7th Annual Doctoral Workshop in Applied Econometrics, Toronto

Discussions
Lin, M, “Local Policies and Firm Location: Measuring the “Unmeasurable”,” 2024 CES Annual North
American Conference
Gaetani, R., Naqun Huang, Jing Li, Yanmin Yang, “Are Cities Losing Innovation Advantages? Online
versus Face-to-Face Interactions,” 2023 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Beijing
Bilicka, K., Michael Devereux, Irem Guceri, “Tax Policy, Investment and Profit-Shifting,” 2023 Annual
Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance

Teaching Experience
Course Instructor: University of Toronto
ECO 364: International Trade Theory (evaluation: 4.6/5.0)

2021

Teaching Assistant: University of Toronto
2018 - 2023
Macroeconomic Theory (PhD, MA, undergraduate), International Trade Theory,Principle of Microeconomics, Principle of Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Theoryand Policy
Teaching Assistant: Tufts University
Microeconomic Theory I&II (MS), Math Camp (MS)2017 - 2018

Professional Experience
Research Assistant:Nathaniel Baum-Snow: empirical analysis of local productivity spillover
Serdar Ozkan: analysis of the U.S. labor market during the COVID pandemic
Sebastian Dyrda: performed computational tasks
Loren Brandt: created maps of steel companies and roads in China
Xu Tian: performed computational tasks
Federico Esposito: data collection and cleaning, helped with proofs
Referee Service:
Journal of Housing Economics (×2)
University Service:
Department of Economics PhD student mentor
Co-organizer of the Economics Graduate Research Seminar (ECO 5060)
Student representative of the Graduate Economic Union
Affiliations:
The Econometric Society
Canadian Economics Association
Deemed Employee of Statistics Canada

Short Visits
Queen’s University, Aug 2023

2021 - 2023
2022
2020 - 2021
2020
2019
2016 - 2018

Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Aug 2023

Other information
Language: Chinese (native), English (fluent)
Programming: Stata, R, MATLAB, ArcPy, LATEXCitizenship: Chinese

Last Updated: May 8, 2024