HONGBO WANG
Department of Economics
Director, Center for Applied Economic Research
STILLWATER, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-1122
hongbo.wang@okstate.edu
Education
- Ph D, Oklahoma State University, Economics, 2015
- MBA, Oklahoma City University, International Business and Finance, 2003
- BA, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Accounting, 2000
Publications
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2025). "The Long-Standing Push to Eliminate State Personal Income Taxes in Oklahoma: Is There an Economic Growth Case to be Made?". Reaching Regions.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2024). "COVID-19 and Beyond: Economic Outcomes in Republican vs. Democratic States". Applied Economics. 20.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2024). "Estimating the Economic Effects of US State and Local Fiscal Policy: A Synthetic Control Method Matched Regression Approach ". Growth and Change. (55), 2, 1-25.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2023). "Creating and Maintaining Film Clusters: Synthetic Control Method Analysis of the Enactment and Repeal of US State Film Incentives". Papers in Regional Science. (102), 2, 363-392.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2022). "Industry Aggregation and Assessment of State Economic Development from Motion Picture and Television Production Incentives". Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. (52), 1, 82-104.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2020). "Whither the American West Economy? Natural Amenities, Mineral Resources and Nonmetropolitan County Growth". Annals of Regional Science. (65), 3, 673-701.
- Hongbo Wang and Dan Rickman. (2020). "Housing Price and Population Growth across China: The Role of Housing Supply ". International Regional Science Review. (43), 3, 203-228.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2020). "U.S. State and Local Fiscal Policy and Economic Activity: Do We Know More Now?". Journal of Economic Surveys. (34), 2, 424-465.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2020). "What Goes Up Must Come Down? The Recent Economic Cycles of the Four Most Oil and Gas Dominated States in the US". Energy Economics. (86), February, 1-16.
- Dan Rickman, Hongbo Wang, and John Winters. (2019). "Adjusting State Public School Teacher Salaries for Interstate Comparison". Public Finance Review. (47), 1, 142-169.
- Hongbo Wang and Dan Rickman. (2018). "Regional Growth Differences in China for 1995-2013: An Empirical Integrative Analysis of their Sources". Annals of Regional Science. (60), 1, 99-117.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2018). "Two Tales of Two U.S. States: Regional Fiscal Austerity and Economic Performance". Regional Science and Urban Economics. (68), 46-55.
- Dan Rickman, Hongbo Wang, and John Winters. (2017). "Relative Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach". Contemporary Economic Policy. (35), 3, 542-550.
- Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang. (2017). "U.S. Regional Population Growth 2000-2010: Natural Amenities or Urban Agglomeration?". Papers in Regional Science. (96), S1, S69-S90.
- Dan Rickman, Hongbo Wang, and John Winters. (2017). "Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?". Energy Economics. (62), 283-290.
- Hongbo Wang. (2016). "Do Mandatory U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards Increase Electricity Prices". Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy. (47), 2, 157-174.
- Hongbo Wang. (2016). "The Texas Economic Model, Miracle or Mirage? A Spatial Hedonic Analysis". Annals of Regional Science. (56), 2, 393-417.
Presentations
- Oklahoma Economic Outlook 2024
63rd Southern Regional Science Association Conference
Southern Regional Science Association
Virtual - April 4 2024 - Oklahoma Economic Outlook 2023
62nd Southern Regional Science Association Conference
Southern Regional Science Association
Virtual - March 30 2023 - Oklahoma Economic Outlook
60th Southern Regional Science Association Conference
Southern Regional Science Association
Virtual - April 4 2021 - Oklahoma Economic Outlook
58th Southern Regional Science Association Conference
Southern Regional Science Association
Arlington, VA - April 4 2019 - U.S. State and Local Fiscal Policy and Economic Activity: Do We Know More?
65th North American Regional Science Conference
Regional Science Association International
San Antonio, TX - November 9 2018 - Housing Prices and Population Growth Across China
52nd annual Pacific Northwest Regional Economics Conference
Tacoma, Washington - May 23 2018 - Oklahoma Economic Outlook
57th Annual Meetings Southern Regional Science Association
Southern Regional Science Association
Philadelphia, PA - March 15 2018 - The Recent U.S. Oil Boom and Bust: A Synthetic Control Method State-level Analysis
64th North American Regional Science Conference
Regional Science Association International
Vancouver, Canada - November 11 2017 - Regional Growth Differences in China for 1995-2013: An Integrative Analysis of their
Sources
56th Annual Meeting
Western Regional Science Association
Sante Fe, NM - February 16 2017 - Determinants of Regional Growth in China for 1999-2013: An Integrative Analysis
63rd North American Regional Science Conference
Regional Science Association International
Minneapolis, MN - November 12 2016 - Regional Housing Supply Elasticity in China 1999-2013: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis
55th Annual Meetings
Western Regional Science Association
Waikoloa Village, HI - February 15 2016 - The Recent Boom in Energy Production and Educational Attainment
62nd Annual Meetings of North American Regional Science Council
Portland, OR - November 2015 - Causes and Effects of Regional Housing Price Growth: A Spatial Equilibrium Growth
Model Perspective
4th International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China
Beijing, China - June 2015 - Does the Texas Economy Outperform Oklahoma’s? A Spatial Hedonic Analysis
54th Annual Meeting of Southern Regional Science Association
Mobile, AL - March 2015 - Fully Adjusting State Public School Teacher Salaries for Comparison
54th Annual Meetings
Southern Regional Science Association
Mobile, AL - March 27 2015 - U.S. Regional Population Growth 2000-2010: A Microdata Spatial Equilibrium Decomposition
54th Annual Meetings
Southern Regional Science Association
Mobile, AL - March 27 2015 - Adjusted State Teacher Salaries, Professional Tenure and Migration
61st Annual Meetings of North American Regional Science Council
Washington, DC - November 2014 - Do Mandatory U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards Increase Electricity Prices
53th Annual Meetings of Southern Regional Science Association
San Antonio, TX - March 2014 - Will Mandatory RPS Increase Electricity Prices
Missouri Valley Economic Association 50th Annual Meeting
Kansas City, MO - October 2013
Editorial and Review Activities
- Growth and Change
Editorial Board Member
April 23 2018 - Growth and Change
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
September 8 2024 - October 8 2024 - Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
June 17 2024 - July 18 2024 - Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
June 11 2024 - June 28 2024 - Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
May 14 2024 - June 3 2024 - Energy Economics
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
October 24 2023 - November 20 2023 - Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
September 14 2023 - November 2 2023 - The Annals of Regional Science
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
July 25 2023 - September 12 2023 - State and Local Government Review
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
July 14 2023 - July 25 2023 - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
February 8 2023 - March 31 2023 - Eastern Economic Journal
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
December 15 2022 - January 19 2023 - Growth and Change
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
November 14 2022 - December 4 2022 - The Annals of Regional Science
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
July 18 2022 - September 13 2022 - Resources Policy
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
February 15 2022 - March 11 2022 - Eastern Economic Journal
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
January 7 2022 - March 4 2022 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
December 19 2021 - National Tax Journal
Ad Hoc Reviewer
August 6 2021 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
July 9 2021 - Papers in Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
June 22 2021 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
May 8 2021 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
April 27 2021 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
March 29 2021 - Resources Policy
Ad Hoc Reviewer
March 9 2021 - The Annals of Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
March 2 2021 - Paper in Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
February 2 2021 - Energy Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
January 26 2021 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
January 24 2021 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
December 10 2020 - Resources Policy
Ad Hoc Reviewer
November 19 2020 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
October 25 2020 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
September 26 2020 - Energy Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
September 15 2020 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
June 11 2020 - Resources Policy
Ad Hoc Reviewer
June 2 2020 - Regional Studies
Ad Hoc Reviewer
May 28 2020 - Papers in Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
April 23 2020 - Energy Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
April 20 2020 - Resources Policy
Ad Hoc Reviewer
March 26 2020 - The Annals of Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
February 14 2020 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
February 4 2020 - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Ad Hoc Reviewer
December 16 2019 - Papers in Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
October 15 2019 - International Regional Science Review
Ad Hoc Reviewer
October 10 2019 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
October 1 2019 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
September 24 2019 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
September 10 2019 - Journal of Economics, Race, and policy
Ad Hoc Reviewer
August 2 2019 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
June 12 2019 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
May 22 2019 - Habitat International
Ad Hoc Reviewer
May 22 2019 - Habitat International
Ad Hoc Reviewer
April 11 2019 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
March 25 2019 - The Annals of Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
September 18 2018 - The Annals of Regional Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer
July 9 2018 - July 9 2018 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
May 1 2018 - May 1 2018 - Environment and Planning A
Ad Hoc Reviewer
December 11 2017 - Resources Policy
Ad Hoc Reviewer
November 21 2017 - Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Ad Hoc Reviewer
November 21 2017 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
November 2 2017 - November 2 2017 - Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Ad Hoc Reviewer
June 12 2017 - Growth and Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
April 29 2017 - April 29 2017
Awards and Honors
- Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (2014)
- Watson Doctoral Fellows (2014)
- Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (2011)
Academic, Military, and Professional Positions
- Oklahoma State University, Director, Center for Applied Economic Research, August 2015
- Oklahoma State University, Teaching Assistant, August 2013 - May 2015
- Siemens Ltd. China, Senior Regional Controller, 2005 - 2009
- Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd., Account Payable Asia team Supervisor, 2004
- China Golden Holding Enterprises, Vice Financial Manager, 2003
- Shenzhen Tong Ren Accountant Firm, Auditor, 1999 - 2002
Courses Taught
- ECON 1113 (3 Semesters)
- ECON 2003 (2 Semesters)
- ECON 2203 (12 Semesters)
- ECON 3123 (1 Semester)
- ECON 2103 (2 Semesters)
| Semester | Course | Section | Course Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | ECON 1113 | 60478 | The Economics of Social Issues (S) |
| Spring 2024 | ECON 1113 | 20413 | The Economics of Social Issues (S) |
| Fall 2023 | ECON 1113 | 60565 | The Economics of Social Issues (S) |
| Spring 2023 | ECON 2003 | 26535 | Microeconomic Principles for Business |
| Fall 2022 | ECON 2203 | 60677 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2022 | ECON 2003 | 28408 | Microeconomic Principles for Business |
| Fall 2021 | ECON 2203 | 60761 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2021 | ECON 2203 | 27532 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Fall 2020 | ECON 2203 | 60805 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2020 | ECON 2203 | 30030 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Fall 2019 | ECON 2203 | 60889 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2019 | ECON 2203 | 20905 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Fall 2018 | ECON 2203 | 60970 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2018 | ECON 2203 | 21052 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Fall 2017 | ECON 2203 | 61110 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2017 | ECON 2203 | 21155 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Fall 2016 | ECON 2203 | 61210 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| Spring 2016 | ECON 3123 | 2 | INTERMED MACRO ECON |
| Spring 2014 | ECON 2103 | 9 | INTRO TO MICRO ECON |
| Fall 2013 | ECON 2103 | 900 | INTRO TO MICRO ECON |