
Guangbin Hong
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Guangbin Hong
@GuangbinHong
Assistant Professor at @MSUEconomics. Former posdoc @miurbanchicago @UChicago. PhD from @UofT. An economist interested in spatial, trade, macro and labor.




Canada is investing over $130 million to recruit top researchers from abroad, with up to 1 million/year in research funding.🚀 📢Also: 600 doctoral scholarships and 400 postdoctoral research awards! Join us at UToronto: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Ca… @UofT @VectorInst @TorontoSRI




[Call for papers: New Urban/Real Estate Conference in Banff] The Business Economics group @UAlbertaBiz @UAlberta is proud to launch an inaugural Rocky Mountain Urban and Real Estate (#RMURE) Conference at #Banff, on June 5 - 7, 2026. The purpose of this conference is to bring together an academic community of #Urban and #RealEstate economists, broadly defined, in Canada and worldwide. As such, we invite papers on a broad range of topics that would be appropriate for presentation at the @UrbanEconomics or @AREUEA_ORG meetings. Keynote: Prof. Nathaniel Baum-Snow @baum_snow (@rotmanschool) Submission deadline: January 31, 2026 Submit your papers to: buec.workshop@ualberta.ca For more details, please visit our conference website: ualberta.ca/en/events/busi… (Organizers: @JayHyunEcon @mmacekk Nate Schiff)





@SeanKongXL studies how supplier-buyer learning drives productivity growth in endogenous networks. He shows that firms upgrade networks to learn from productive partners, amplifying welfare gains from trade. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/xian… #UChicago #EconJobMarket




Differences in the cost of acquiring human capital shape the geography of economic development. Regional proportional reductions in these costs dominate uniform policies, from @klausvanieper, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, and @HansbergRossi nber.org/papers/w34310


Welcome Professor Guangbin Hong! 🎉spr.ly/6014AZrU0 #MSUEconomics #MSUSocialScience








