Xiaodong Wang, Visiting Scholar
International Studies Program
September 2009-September 2010
Office: AYSPS 649H
Phone: 404-413-0274
E-mail: ecoxwx@langate.gsu.edu, shirleywxd@hotmail.com
Research Interests:
· Environmental Economics
· Environmental Economic Policy
Xiaodong Wang is a lecturer with the Department of Economics, Changchun Taxation College, China, which is the only university under the administration of State Bureau of Taxation. She holds two Bachelor degrees, one in Public Finance from Changchun Taxation College, the other in Law from Jilin University, China, and a Master degree in International Relation (mainly focusing on international trade and economic cooperation) from Waseda University, Japan. She is now a Ph.D. candidate majoring in economics in Jilin University, China.
She has been doing academic research on environmental policy and institutional arrangements in US, Japan and Germany. During her stay at ISP, she is going to conduct a comparative research of the environmental policy in US, Japan and Germany, and apply some benefit-cost analysis tools to the evaluation of their environmental policy and examine the economic incentives for natural resource regeneration and environmental protection, which would provide some enlightenment to the environmental problem-solving in China. She is also interested in issues like emission trading, green index accounts and etc.
