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Ping Zhang
Adjunct Associate Professor
Contact: (86)021-55665427
Email: zhangp@fudan.edu.cn
Office: Room 744, Wenke Building
Profile
Publications
Professional Activities
Dr. Ping Zhang is an Associate Professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University. He got his BA in Geophysics from Nanjing University, MA in Economics from Tsinghua, and Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Georgia. His research focuses on property taxation, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and local governance. His recent articles appear in Public Administration and Development, Journal of Contemporary China, Public Personnel Management, Public Finance and Management, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, and in some Chinese journals such as Economic Research Journal (《经济研究》), Chinese Public Administration (《中国行政管理》), Comparative Economic & Social Systems (《经济社会体制比较》) , Journal of Public Administration (《公共行政评论》), and Journal of Public Management (《公共管理学报》). He is also a recipient of Pu Shan Award (浦山奖) for the policy research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public budgeting and finance, Property taxation and Local governance, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Public policy
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
12/2017-present, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
08/2014-12/2017, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
03/2016-present, Associate Director of MPA program, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
EDUCATION
08/2010-08/2014, Ph.D. in Public Administration, The University of Georgia
Area of Specialization: Public Budgeting and Finance. Dissertation: Explorations in Local Public Finance: Property Taxation, Local Infrastructure, Optimal Debt Use and Expenditure Stability. (Chair: Professor Yilin Hou)
09/2008-07/2010, M.A. in Economics, Tsinghua University, China
09/2003-06/2007, B.S. in Geophysics (Minor in Finance), Nanjing University, China
Academic papers
In English
Zhang, Ping, Yijia Jing (2019). Strategies in Adopting Unpopular Policies in China: The Case of Property Tax Reform. Journal of Contemporary China, forthcoming.
Zhang, Ping. (2019). The Impacts of Fiscal Decentralization on the Quality of Government in China: A Test of Market-Preserving Federalism at the Provincial Level. Chinese Public Administration Review, forthcoming.
Zhang, Ping. (2017). The Impacts of Private Experience on the Employment of Different Public Job Positions. Public Personnel Management, 46(2), 144-169.
Zhang, Ping, Chunkui Zhu and Yilin Hou. (2016). Fiscal Decentralization, Flat Administrative Structure, and Local Government Size: Evidence and Lessons from China. Public Administration and Development, 36(3), 198-214.
Zhang, Ping, Zizhou Bu, Youqiang Wang and Yilin Hou. (2016). Education Outlay, Fiscal Transfer and Inter-region Funding Equity: A County-Level Analysis of Education Finance in China. Journal of Chinese Governance, 1(4), 591-610. (As a chapter in the book edited by Andrew Podger, Tsai-Tsu Su, John Wanna, Hon S. Chan and Meili Niu (2018), Value for Money: Budget and Financial Management Reform in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia, pp. 317-344)
Zhang, Ping, and Qiang Ren. (2016). Provincial-Local Fiscal Relations in Recent China: Local Fiscal Autonomy and Inter-jurisdictional Disparities. Public Finance and Management, 16(3), 228-257.
Zhang, Ping. (2015). Facing Fiscal Crisis: Managing Counter-Cyclical Debt Financing of the State and Local Governments. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 27(4), 523-545.
In Chinese
Zhang, Ping, and Yilin Hou. (2019). Urban Residents’ Willingness to Pay Property Tax in China: A Simulation Analysis under Different Exemption Schemes. Journal of Public Administration 2019(2): 45-64. (《公共行政评论》)
Zhang, Ping, and Yilin Hou. (2019). Three Substantive Topical Areas of Research on Reforming China’s Fiscal System. Public Administration and Policy Review, 2019(2): 14-26. (《公共管理与政策评论》)
Zhang, Ping, and Yusong Deng. (2018). The Orientation of Property Tax Reform and the Transformation of Local Governance in China. Comparative Economic & Social Systems, 2018(2): 43-54. (《经济社会体制比较》)
Zhao Jianzhi, Ping Zhang, and Yannan Gou. (2019). Livelihoods Expenditure, Fiscal Structure and Economic Development: Empirical Evidence from Panel data of 98 Countries. Fudan Public Administration Review, 2019(1): 178-196. (《复旦公共行政评论》)
Zhang, Ping, and Yilin Hou. (2016). A Model for the Ability-to-Pay Index of China’s Real Property Tax, Tax Burden Distribution and Redistributive Effects. Economic Research Journal, 2016(12): 118-132. (《经济研究》)
Zhang, Ping. (2016). The Administrative Level of Property Tax: Theoretical Basis as a Local Tax and Experience from the United States, Chinese Public Administration, 2016(12): 125-130. (《中国行政管理》)
Zhang, Ping, Qiang Ren, and Yilin Hou. (2016). The Property Tax and Transformation of Local Public Finance in China. Journal of Public Management, 13(4): 1-15. (《公共管理学报》)
Zhang, Ping, and Qiang Ren. (2016). Several Important Issues on Real Property Taxation: A Review on the Literature of Property Tax in the United States. Fudan Public Administration Review. (《复旦公共行政评论》)
Zhang, Ping, and Yilin Hou. (2016). An Empirical Analysis on the Ability-to-Pay of Property tax in China. Journal of Public Administration, 9(2):134-154. (《公共行政评论》)
Zhang, Ping. (2014). Explorations in Local Public Finance: Property Taxation, Local Infrastructure, Optimal Debt Use and Expenditure Stability (dissertation abstract). Journal of Public Administration, 2014(5), 184-188. (《公共行政评论》)
Zhang, Ping, Qiang Ren, and Zhen Jiang. (2013). Practice of Real Property Tax in the U.S.: An Example of Clarke County and the Clarke County School District. International Taxation in China. 2013 (1), 40-44. (《涉外税务》)
Yaozu Xue, and Ping Zhang. (2013). Induced Institutional Change: The Important Way to Achieve Urban-Rural Coordination——Based on Institutional Change Analytical Frame of Evolutional Game Theory. Soft Science, 2013(9): 43-46. (《软科学》)
Books
In English
Hou, Yilin, Ping Zhang, Qiang Ren, and Haitao Ma. 2018. Development, Governance, and Real Property Tax in China. Springer, New York.
Zhang, Ping. 2016. The Modern Property Tax: The Experience in America and Exploration in China. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House. (In Chinese, 《现代房地产税：美国经验与中国探索》，中国社会科学出版社)
Hou, Yilin, Qiang Ren and Ping Zhang. 2015. The Property Tax in China: History, Pilots, and Prospects. Springer, New York.
Chinese edition (侯一麟，任强，张平. 《房产税在中国：历史、试点与探索》，科学出版社) by Science Press, Beijing, China.
Refereed Chapters in Academic Books
Zhang, Ping, and Yilin Hou. (2016). A Study on the Ability-to-Pay of Property tax in China. In Yilin Hou, Qiang Ren and Haitao Ma (eds.), The Tax Element Design of China's Property Tax, pp. 91-107. Beijing: Economic Science Press. (In Chinese)
Book review
Zhang, Ping. The Significant Influence of Consumer Credit in the Economic Society——A Review of “Debtor nation: The history of America in red ink.” Fudan Public Administration Review. 2014 (11), 228-235. (In Chinese, 《复旦公共行政评论》)
