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Email

yonghongwu@um.edu.mo

Tel

+853 8822 9504

Office

Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 4041a

Yonghong WU 吳永紅

Professor

Department Head

University of Macau Development Foundation (UMDF) Professorial Fellow of Government and Public Administration

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D., Syracuse University (Syracuse, U.S.A.)
M. L., Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
B. S., Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)

Research Interests

Economics for Management and Policy
Principles of Financial Management and Budgeting
Selected Topics in Fiscal Administration and Policy
Advanced Topics in Financial Analysis and Management
Public Policy Analysis
Advanced Data Analysis

Teaching Areas

Economics for Management and Policy
Principles of Financial Management and Budgeting
Selected Topics in Fiscal Administration and Policy
Advanced Topics in Financial Analysis and Management
Public Policy Analysis
Advanced Data Analysis

Publications

Books

  1. Wu, Yonghong. 2020. America’s Leaning Ivory Tower: The Measurement of and Response to Concentration of Federal Funding for Academic Research. Springer.
  2. Mossberger, Karen, Eric W. Welch and Yonghong Wu. (Eds.). 2021. Transforming Everything? Evaluating Broadband’s Impacts across Policy Areas. Oxford University Press.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Wang, Shu and Yonghong Wu. (forthcoming). “Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
  2. Wu, Yonghong. (2023). “Tax Exporting through Federal Deductibility of State and Local Taxes: A Cross-state Analysis,” Public Finance and Management 22(2), 146-162.
  3. Funderburg, Richard, Kenneth A. Kriz, David Merriman and Yonghong Wu. (2023). “Effects of Post-COVID Work from Home on the Spatial Distribution of Local Government Revenues in Illinois,” Municipal Finance Journal 44(1), 65-92.
  4. Wu, Yonghong. (2022). “Indirect Federal Subsidy and Tax Exportation through State and Local Tax Deduction: Understanding the Impact of the 2017 Tax Reform on State and Local Governments,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52(1), 154-172.
  5. Wu, Yonghong and Yu Shi. (2021). “Does General Fund Balance Stabilize Municipal Expenditure? Evidence from Large American Cities,” International Journal of Public Administration 44(5), 420–429.
  6. Wu, Yonghong. (2020). “Estimating the Impact of the Cap on SALT Deductions: A Cross-City Analysis of Illinois,” Illinois Municipal Policy Journal 5(1), 53–68.
  7. Van Holm, Eric, Yonghong Wu and Eric W. Welch. 2019. “Comparing the Collaboration Networks and Productivity of China-born and US-born Academic Scientists,” Science and Public Policy 46(2), 310–320.
  8. Shi, Yu, Nisa Yazici Aydemir and Yonghong Wu. 2018. “What Factors Drive Municipal Fiscal Policy Adoption? An Empirical Investigation of Major Cities in the United States,” State and Local Government Review 50(3), 177–188.
  9. Wu, Yonghong and Yu Shi. 2018. “How Does Intergovernmental Fiscal Environment Affect General Fund Balances of Major American Cities?” Local Government Studies 44(6), 745–765.
  10. Wang, Wen and Yonghong Wu. 2018. “Why Are We Lagging Behind? An Empirical Analysis of Municipal Capital Spending in the United States,” Public Budgeting & Finance 38(3), 76–91.
  11. Wu, Yonghong and Dan Williams. 2017. “The Determinants of Success in Local Earmarking: The Case of New York City Council Discretionary Expense Grants,” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 29(3), 319–345.
  12. Wu, Yonghong and David Merriman. 2017. “Is Federal Academic Research and Development Subsidy A Complement or Substitute for State Funding?” Public Finance and Management 17(1), 26–47.
  13. Wu, Yonghong and Dan Williams. 2015. “State Legislative Earmarks: Counterparts of Congressional Earmarks?” State and Local Government Review 47(2), 83–91.
  14. Wu, Yonghong, Eric Welch and Wan-Ling Huang. 2015. “Commercialization of University Inventions: Individual and Institutional Factors Affecting Licensing of University Patents,” Technovation 36-37, 12–25.
  15. Mossberger, Karen, Yonghong Wu and Jared Crawford. 2013. “Connecting Citizens and Local Governments? Social Media and Interactivity in Major U.S. Cities,” Government Information Quarterly 30(4), 351–358.
  16. Wu, Yonghong. 2013. “The Cross-state Distribution of Federal Funding in the USA: The Case of Financing Academic Research and Development,” Science and Public Policy 40(3), 316–326.
  17. Wu, Yonghong. 2012. “How Major Local Taxes Affect Private Employment: An Empirical Analysis of Northeastern Illinois Municipalities,” Economic Development Quarterly 26(4), 351–360.
  18. Wu, Yonghong and David Merriman. 2011. “Illinois’ Municipal Telecommunications Tax: Tax Base Elasticity and Revenue Potential,” Urban Affairs Review 47(6), 838–860.
  19. Wu, Yonghong and David Merriman. 2011. “Inertia and Neighboring Effects in Local Tax Policy: Illinois’ Experience with a Local Option Tax on Telecommunications,” Public Budgeting & Finance 31(2), 99–116.
  20. Wu, Yonghong. 2010. “Tackling Undue Concentration of Federal Research Funding: An Empirical Assessment on NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR),” Research Policy 39(6), 835–841.
  21. Wu, Yonghong. 2010. “Property Tax Exportation and Its Effects on Local Business Establishments: The Case of Massachusetts Municipalities,” Economic Development Quarterly 24(1), 3–12.
  22. Wu, Yonghong. 2009. “How Municipal Property Tax Responded to State Aid Cuts: The Case of Massachusetts Municipalities in the Post-2001 Fiscal Crisis,” Public Budgeting & Finance 29(4), 74–89.
  23. Melkers, Julia and Yonghong Wu. 2009. “Evaluating the Improved Research Capacity of EPSCoR States: R&D Funding and Collaborative Networks in the NSF EPSCoR Program,” Review of Policy Research 26(6), 761–782.
  24. Wu, Yonghong. 2009. “NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Subsidizing Academic Research or State Budgets?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28(3), 479–495.
  25. Wu, Yonghong and Rebecca Hendrick. 2009. “Horizontal and Vertical Tax Competition in Florida Local Governments,” Public Finance Review 37(3), 289–311.
  26. Wu, Yonghong. 2008. “State R&D Tax Credit and High-technology Establishments,” Economic Development Quarterly 22(2), 136–148.
  27. Wu, Yonghong and Michael Pagano. 2008. “Municipal Communications Tax Revenue Reliance and Fiscal Impact of Possible Federal Preemption,” Public Budgeting & Finance 28(1), 82–100.
  28. Hendrick, Rebecca, Yonghong Wu and Benoy Jacob. 2007. “Tax Competition among Municipal Governments: Exit vs. Voice,” Urban Affairs Review 43(2), 221–255.
  29. Wu, Yonghong, David Popp and Stuart Bretschneider. 2007. “The Effects of Innovation Policies on Business R&D: A Cross-national Empirical Study,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16(4), 237–253.
  30. Wu, Yonghong. 2005. “The Effects of State R&D Tax Credits in Stimulating Private R&D Expenditure: A Cross-state Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24(4), 785–802.
  31. Shiffman, Jeremy and Yonghong Wu. 2003. “Norms in Tension: Democracy and Efficiency in Bangladeshi Health and Population Sector Reform,” Social Science & Medicine 57(9), 1547–1557.
  32. Shiffman, Jeremy, Tanya Beer and Yonghong Wu. 2002. “The Emergence of Global Disease Control Priorities,” Health Policy and Planning 17(3), 225–234.
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