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Dr Jun Du

Jun Du

Senior Lecturer

Economics and Strategy Group

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Teaching (Modules)

  • BSM923: Applied Econometrics (MSc.)

  • BS2220: Introduction to Econometrics

Main Research Interests

  • Applied Microeconometric analysis

  • Ownership change and privatisation

  • Firm-Level Industrial Dynamics

  • Knowledge sourcing and innovation

Ongoing Research Grants and Projects

  • Privatisation, foreign investment and firm performance in China, funded by the ESRC, ERSC Society Today.

  • Social capital, firm financing and SMEs in China

  • Financing source and firm growth

  • Market structure, knowledge spillover and firm innovation

  • Entry size and firm dynamics

Recent Publications

  • Red capitalists: Political behaviour and the growth and survival of start-ups in China (2010), with S Girma, Kyklos, vol.63, No. 4, 530~545.

  • Innovation, Ownership and Profitability, with James H. Love, Stephen Roper, International Journal of Industrial Organization, (2009), Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 424-434,

  • The effects of foreign acquisition on domestic and export markets dynamics in China (2008), with S Girma, The World Economy, (2009).

  • Optimal Geographic Diversification and Firm Performance: Evidence from the UK, (2008), with N Driffield & S Girma, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 30 (2) pp145-154.

  • Modelling the Innovation Value Chain (2008), with J Love and S Roper, Research Policy, 37, 961-977.

  • The Innovation Decision: An Economic Analysis (2007), with J Love and S Roper, Technovation, 27, 12, 744 – 765.

  • Finance and Firm Export in China (2007), with S. Girma, Kyklos, vol.60, No. 1, 37~54.

  • Privatisation, State Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from China (2007), with N Driffield, International Journal of the Economics of Business. 14:2, 215 - 239.