Mingzhe Yu

Beijing Technology and Business University · School of Economics

future energy demand are identified through extensive consultation with experts from South Asian countries by developing future power demand for the year of 2050. Consequently, the results show a crucial impact of such trends on a future power demand that exceeds the economic potential of techno. Hence, the best-case scenario, "New Trends Efficient...

The ground-breaking research on the electricity sector and its effects on energyefficiency (EE) in advanced and emerging economies are crucial in developing afuturistic pathway, leading to self-sustainable energy use. Therefore, this researchinvestigates the functions of sustainable investments to ensure EE in advanced andemerging economies in a de...

This paper discusses how geographic features affect the level of social trust in a region. Using individual-level survey data from China with more than 40,000 observations, the authors find that social trust is higher in cities that are located at the border of provinces. The ruggedness of the traffic route between the city and the capital city of...

As the most innovative initiative for the liberalization of Chinese bond market, the Bond Connectprogram greatly promotes the participation of cross-border capitals. In this paper, by analyzingthe changes in the number of foreign investors entering the market, the volume of bond tradingand the total amount of bond holdings, we find that the Bond Co...

Purpose Brand storytelling is an effective marketing tool. However, when choosing whether to tell more or tell less, it remains unclear which of these two narrative styles is most effective. This study aims to examine whether blank-leaving(less) leads to favourable brand attitudes and compares its effects on consumers’ story immersion, to non-blank...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of US trade policy uncertainty on China's agricultural imports and exports by using Chinese aggregate and product-level data. First, we find that increased US trade policy uncertainty has reduced China's agricultural exports to the US and imports from the US, with effects that outweigh traditional exch...

This paper investigates the effects of local officials’ promotion incentives on the issuance of urban investment bonds (UIBs) in China. Based on data from 2014 to 2019, we find that local officials’ promotion incentives have a positive effect on the amount of UIBs but a negative effect on the cost, and these effects are much stronger in cities with...

This paper investigates the relationship between a region's cultural inclusion and its residents' social trust. Based on the individual-level survey data from China, we find a positive correlation between cultural inclusion and average levels of social trust at the city level. When instrumenting culture inclusion using government spending on the co...

The ground-breaking research on the electricity sector and its effects on energy efficiency (EE) in advanced and emerging economies are crucial in developing a futuristic pathway, leading to self-sustainable energy use. Therefore, this research investigates the functions of sustainable investments to ensure EE in advanced and emerging economies in...

Policies on reducing energy demand should incorporate the newly formed economic models, digitalization, and consumer awareness trends. Therefore, this study analyzes the interaction of the three trends with SDG7 under energy efficiency vision 2050, measuring the energy efficiency of OECD from 2005 to 2017 to enable this inclusion. In this context,...

This paper investigates the effects of the number of children on household debt. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey in 2015 and 2017, this paper finds a positive relationship between the number of children in a family and household debt. To obtain a causal explanation via further analysis, this paper creates a natural experiment bas...

How do the economic characteristics of regions affect social trust? This article tries to answer this question using a dynamic game model with empirical testing. People in regions with a larger scale of economic activity are usually made up of groups with different historical or cultural backgrounds. The dynamic game with incomplete information wil...

The differences in human capital stock among regions in China have been widening since the mid1990s, and regional marketization level is a possible determinant ofhuman capital accumulationCombining a nationwide survey data set at the individual level with more than 40.000 observations and an index of marketization for each province, we find a posit...