Rate My Professor Qingyuan Du

Dr. Qingyuan Du is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics within Monash Business School at Monash University, where he also serves as the MComm Coordinator. He earned his PhD from Columbia University in 2011. His primary research interests encompass international economics, macroeconomics, and the Chinese economy, with specific focus areas including global imbalances, exchange rate policy, and development. Du's scholarly work explores critical topics such as exchange rate regimes, foreign portfolio investment patterns, non-rational beliefs in open economies, and labor market flexibility's impact on real exchange rates. His contributions address phenomena like importer dispersion in exchange rate pass-through, two-sided heterogeneity in trade, and Darwinian perspectives on exchange rate undervaluation.

Du has published in prominent peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Money and Finance, Empirical Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Economics Letters, and European Economic Review. Key publications include 'Exchange rate regime flexibility and firms’ employment' (2026, Journal of International Money and Finance, with Contessi, Gao, Pan, Xie); 'Foreign portfolio investment patterns: evidence from a gravity model' (2022, Empirical Economics, with Pan, Hu); 'Non-rational beliefs in an open economy' (2021, Review of Economic Dynamics, with Eusepi, Preston); 'Two-sided heterogeneity and exchange rate pass-through' (2019, Economics Letters, with Xu, Wang); 'A Darwinian perspective on "exchange rate undervaluation"' (2016, European Economic Review, with Wei); 'When Don’t Developing Countries Benefit from Capital Account Liberalization? The Role of Labor Market Institutions' (2019); 'Labor market flexibility and the real exchange rate' (2015, with Liu); and 'A Theory of the Competitive Saving Motive' (2013, with Wei). His research has garnered 344 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting an h-index of 9 and i10-index of 9. Du maintains active collaborations with scholars from institutions such as Columbia University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Melbourne, contributing to advancements in open economy macroeconomics.