Recently, top macroeconomist and professor at the European University Institute, Russell W. Cooper, has officially agreed to join Liaoning University full-time as a professor at the China Economic Research Institute (CERI).
Russell W. Cooper, born in Florida, USA, is a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Fellow of the Econometrics Society, and a Fellow of the American Economic Association. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and has held teaching positions at Yale University and Penn State University. He also served as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, from 1987 to 1988.
Professor Cooper is a leading macroeconomist known for his work on incomplete information in macroeconomics. His groundbreaking insights on coordination games have become a cornerstone of macroeconomic theory. He has published over a hundred high-quality academic papers in areas such as macroeconomics, international economics, industrial organization, experimental economics, labor economics, and monetary economics, with 19 papers appearing in the top five international economics journals. Notably, his paper "Coordinating coordination failures in Keynesian models" in the Quarterly Journal of Economics has been cited 2395 times, and "On the nature of capital adjustment costs" in the Review of Economic Studies has been cited 1577 times. With a total of 19694 citations on Google Scholar and an impressive H-index of 55, his research has had a significant impact in the field of macroeconomics, establishing him as a world-renowned expert in the field.
Professor Cooper has made significant contributions in the field of teaching. He has authored economics textbooks such as "Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications (Saylor Foundation, 2012)" and "Economics: Theory Through Applications (Flat World Knowledge, 2011)." His collaboration with Professor Jerome Adda on "Dynamic Economics: Quantitative Methods and Application (MIT Press, 2003)" is considered a classic introductory textbook in the field of dynamic economics. Professor Cooper has taught at prestigious institutions such as Yale University, the University of Iowa, Boston University, the University of Texas, and Pennsylvania State University.
He has also conducted short courses at various institutions worldwide, including Peking University, Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Queen's University in Canada, Keio University in Japan, the University of California, Riverside, and Rice University, receiving high praise from students.
Previously, Professor Cooper was appointed as a lifetime honorary professor at Liaoning University and has twice visited the university to teach a course on "dynamic optimization" to doctoral students in economics. Upon joining full-time, Professor Cooper will teach undergraduate and doctoral students in the Economics Department at Liaoning University. All his future research will be attributed solely to "Liaoning University," contributing to the university's global recruitment efforts and talent development.
The full-time introduction of Professor Russell Wade Cooper is another landmark achievement in the "Double First-Class" construction of Liaoning University, demonstrating Liaoning University's confidence and ability to build the discipline of economics into a truly "world-class discipline," and marking a new milestone in the academic strength of Chinese economic research faculty! This move will not only help Liaoning University's economics discipline to reach a new level of academic status and international influence but will also contribute to the cultivation of more elite talents in the field of Chinese economics!
