Position/Role: Lecturer

Schools/Unit: Economics

Contact Details:

• Australian School of Business Building, Room 432
• Phone: +61 2 9385 3367
• Fax: +61 2 9313 6337
• Email: april.cai@unsw.edu.au
• Webpage: http://grad.econ.ubc.ca/aprilcai/

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. Candidate in Economics (expected in July 2009), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• M.A. in Economics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China
• B.S. in Computer Science, Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R. China
  

Research Areas:

• Macroeconomics
• International Economics
• Firm Size Dynamics
• Network Theory

Working Papers:

• "Knowledge Spillover and Firm Size Heterogeneity" (Job Market Paper)
  Presented at Canadian Economics Association Meeting 2008, Vancouver
• “Dynamic Formation of Directed Firm Citation Networks”

Work in Progress:

• “Information Heterogeneity and the Great Moderation”
• “Knowledge Spillover and the Sector-Specific Impact of Globalization on Economic Growth”
• “Firm Heterogeneity and Countercyclical Movement of Labor Share” Co-authored with Andrey Stoyanov
• “Do Firms’ Social Connections Predict Future Growth and Survival”
• “Firm Social Connection and Entry into the Export Market,” Co-authored with Luca David Opromolla
• “Are Trade and Capital Flows Followed with Knowledge Flow?”