HONGBO WANG

Department of Economics
Director, Center for Applied Economic Research

240 BUSINESS BUILDING
STILLWATER, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-1122

hongbo.wang@okstate.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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. (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
  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