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Hanwei Huang.

Hanwei Huang

Associate

Expertise: international trade, economic geography, and environmental economics

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City University of Hong Kong

Biography

Hanwei Huang is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2018. During 2018?2019, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the UCL Department of Economics. His main research interests include international trade, economic geography, and environmental economics.

Current areas of research include:

  • International trade: global production network, logistic network and trade cost, trade war and trade blocs
  • economic geography: dynamic spatial model
  • environmental economics: trade and the environment

Publications

Journal article
Trade and the scopes of pollution: evidence from China?s world market integration

Although the environmental impact of trade has been a long-standing concern, there is still scant evidence on the channels through which international market access affects pollution. We exploit the unique episode of Chi... Read more...

Stefano Carattini, Hanwei Huang, Frank Pisch and Tejendra Pratap Singh

01 August 2026

Journal article
Endogenous mobility in pandemics: theory and evidence from the United States

We analyze infectious diseases in a general equilibrium model with endogenous mobility, where forward-looking agents weigh disease risks against economic opportunities in cross-regional mobility decisions. This generates... Read more...

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

01 August 2026

CEP discussion papers
Trade and the scopes of pollution: evidence from China's world market integration

Although the environmental impact of trade has been a long-standing concern, there is still scant evidence on the channels through which international market access affects pollution. We exploit the unique episode of Chi... Read more...

Stefano Carattini, Hanwei Huang, Tejendra P. Singh and Frank Pisch

08 July 2026

Blog
China's accession to the WTO increased pollution via coal powerplants, not exporters or their suppliers and consumers

As countries consider trade deals to foster development, the question of how trade impacts pollution keeps resurfacing. This column examines how China's rapid entry into world markets in the early 2000s affected pollutio... Read more...

Stefano Carattini, Hanwei Huang, Tejendra P. Singh and Frank Pisch

27 June 2026

CEP discussion papers
Evading the ban: smuggling, pollution, and the welfare effects of China?s waste import restrictions

While import restrictions are increasingly deployed to achieve non-trade objectives such as environmental protection, they often create distortions and leakage through illicit trade. We examine this trade-off in the cont... Read more...

Hanwei Huang and Yuyuan Yu

15 May 2026

Journal article
Accounting for the evolution of China's production and trade patterns

We study the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. Using firm-level microdata, we document how production and exports shifted across industries and within indu... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju and Vivian Z. Yue

29 March 2026

Journal article
Work design and compensation strategies in a post-Covid world: evidence from online job postings

This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic, as a disruptive external shock, has reshaped organizational practices, with particular emphasis on changes in work design and compensation strategies. Drawing on a unique da... Read more...

Huiqi Deng, James H. Dulebohn, Chunmian Ge, Hanwei Huang and Dongyuan Wu

11 February 2026

CEP discussion papers
Firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition in global production networks

How do production networks and market structure interact to shape the effects of trade and competition policy? We develop a model with two-sided firm heterogeneity, matching frictions, and imperfect supplier competition.... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Kalina Manova, Oscar Perello and Frank Pisch

24 July 2024

CEP discussion papers
Accounting for the evolution of China's production and trade patterns

This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju and Vivian Z. Yue

01 May 2024

CEP discussion papers
Endogenous mobility in pandemics: theory and evidence from the United States

We study infectious diseases in a spatial epidemiology model with forward-looking individuals who weigh disease environments against economic opportunities when moving across regions. This endogenous mobility allows regi... Read more...

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

12 February 2024

CEP discussion papers
Rethinking revealed comparative advantage with micro and macro data

The Balassa's index of revealed comparative advantage does not necessarily reveal Ricardian comparative advantage. We propose an alternative sufficient statistics approach based on a quantitative standard trade model inc... Read more...

Hanwei Huang and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

28 November 2023

Journal article
The impact of non-tariff barriers on trade and welfare

Deep trade agreements (DTAs) are widespread and have taken the world beyond tariff liberalization in goods trade. As the importance of global supply chains and the services sector has increased across the world, shallow ... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang

01 January 2023

Journal article
Working from home and firm resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted firms' operations. To cope with the crisis, many firms have allowed their employees to work from home (WFH). We examine whether a firm's WFH capacity has increased its resilience durin... Read more...

Chunmian Ge, Hanwei Huang, Junhui Jiang, Chang Liu and Zhiqiang Wang

17 July 2022

CEP discussion papers
Endogenous cross-region human mobility and pandemics

We study infectious diseases using a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Deceased model with endogenous cross-region human mobility. Individuals weigh the risk of infection against economic opportunities when moving across re... Read more...

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

13 July 2022

Journal article
Impact of vaccination on the Covid-19 pandemic in US states

Governments worldwide are implementing mass vaccination programs in an effort to end the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Here, we evaluated the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination program in its early stage ... Read more...

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

28 January 2022

CEP Brexit analysis Papers
Disunited Kingdom? Brexit, trade and Scottish independence

Scotland is a small, open economy that mostly trades with the rest of the UK. There is around six times more trade between Scotland and the rest of the UK than predicted by a standard gravity trade model. Scottish indepe... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider

03 February 2021

Blog
Brexit, trade and Scottish independence

Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson, and Patrick Schneider analysed the economics of Scottish independence by looking at its impact on trade. Independence would put a new border between Scotland and the rest of the UK, introduc... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider

03 February 2021

Blog
Disunited Kingdom? Brexit, trade and Scottish independence

The Scottish National Party is calling for a second referendum on independence from the UK. This column examines the likely effect of changes in trade costs resulting from independence and Brexit on the Scottish economy,... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider

03 February 2021

Blog
The trade and welfare benefits of deep trade agreements

Deep trade agreements are widespread and have taken the world beyond tariff liberalisation in goods trade. As the importance of global supply chains and the services sector increased across the world, shallow tariff redu... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang

21 January 2021

CEP discussion papers
The impact of non-tariff barriers on trade and welfare

Deep trade agreements are widespread and have taken the world beyond tariff liberalization in goods trade. As the importance of global supply chains and the services sector increased across the world, shallow tariff redu... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang

12 January 2021

CEP discussion papers
Pandemics, global supply chains and local labor demand: evidence from 100 million posted jobs in China

This paper studies how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected labor demand, using over 100 million posted jobs on one of the largest online platforms in China. Our data reveal that the number of newly posted jobs within the ... Read more...

Hanming Fang, Chunmian Ge, Hanwei Huang and Hongbin Li

19 November 2020

CEP Brexit analysis Papers
The economic impact of Boris Johnson?s Brexit proposals

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a means of escaping the Brexit stalemate, but his new Brexit proposals have, as yet, not managed to overcome the impasse. What has been striking, though, is the extent to whic... Read more...

Matt Bevington, Hanwei Huang, Anand Menon, Jonathan Portes, Jill Rutter and Thomas Sampson

22 October 2019

CEP discussion papers
Structural adjustments and international trade: theory and evidence from China

This paper studies how changes in factor endowment, technology, and trade costs jointly determine the structural adjustments, which are defined as changes in distributions of production and exports. We document the struc... Read more...

Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju and Vivian Z. Yue

07 November 2017

Journal article
The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects

This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit in the medium to long run, focusing on trade and fiscal transfers.We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model with many countries and sectors and trad... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Joao Paulo Pessoa, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen

01 October 2017

CEP discussion papers
The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects

This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit, focusing on trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model with many countries and sectors and trade in intermediates, as in... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Joao Paulo Pessoa, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen

21 April 2017

CEP Brexit analysis Papers
BREXIT 2016: policy analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance

On June 23rd, the British people will vote in a referendum over whether or not to remain in the European Union. It is the most important vote that most of us will have in our lifetimes. And one that will have major reper... Read more...

Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra, Saul Estrin, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth

21 June 2016

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