Family name: Mu

First name：Chunzhou

Title & Position：Professor

Office Hours:  Monday-Thursday, 8:30-11:30 am

E-mail：czmu@jlu.edu.cn

Research Fields：

Health Economics, Labour Economics, Applied Micro-econometrics

Education：

2009.07—2013.08  Ph.D., Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia

2006.09—2008.07  M.A., Quantitative Economics, Jilin University, China

2003.09—2005.07  B.A., Business English, Jilin University, China

2002.09—2006.07  B.A., Corporate Finance, Jilin University, China

Publications：

[1] Mu, C. & Hall, J. (2022). Marital status and hospital use in older adults, Australian Economic Papers, Nov 2022 (Published online).

[2] Fiebig, D. G., van Gool, K., Hall, J., & Mu, C. (2021). Health care use in response to health shocks: Does socio-economic status matter? Health Economics, 30(12), 3032-3050.

[3] van Gool, K., Mu, C., & Hall, J. (2021). Does more investment in primary care improve health system performance? Health Policy, 125(6), 717-724.

[4] Mu, C. and J. Hall. (2020) “What explains the regional variation in the use of general practitioners in Australia?” BMC Health Services Research 20(1): 325.

[5] Mu, C., De Abreu Lourenco, R., van Gool, K. and Hall, J. (2018) “Is Low Priced Primary Care Bad for Quality? Evidence from Australian General Practice,” Applied Economics, 50(5), 475-491.

[6] Johar, M., Mu, C., Van Gool, K. and Wong, C.Y. (2017) “Bleeding Hearts, Profiteers, or Both: Specialist Physician Fees in an Unregulated Market,” Health Economics, 26(4), 528-535.

[7] Mu, C. (2015) “The Age Profile of the Location Decisions of General Practitioners in Australia,” Social Science and Medicine, 142, 183–193.

[8] Mu, C., Kecmanovic, M. and Hall, J. (2015) “Does Living Alone Confer a Higher Risk of Hospitalisation?” Economic Record, 91, 124–138.

[9] Chen, S., Ma, H., and Mu, C. (2009) “The MS-VAR Model and Regime-switching Analysis on China’s Financial Early Warning System”, Jilin University Journal Social Sciences Edition, Vol. 49, No.1, 110–119

[10] Li, Z., Chi, X., and Mu, C. (2008) “Empirical Analysis of the Financing Efficiency of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”, Industrial Technology and Economy, Vol.27, No.9, 64–66

[11] Liu, Z., Mu, C., and Liu, F. (2006) “A Classified Appraisal of Small and Medium-sized Listed Enterprises”, Industrial Technology and Economy, Vol.25, No.10, 131–138

[12] Mu, C. (2005) “An Analysis on the Difficulties and Solutions of the Listing of State-Owned Banks”, Industrial Technology and Economy, Vol.24, No.2, 126–127

Sponsored Research Projects:

[1] “Hospital Costs Analysis for the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority: A Multilevel Modelling Approach”, with van Gool, K. and Longden, T., funded by Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Australia, 2018

[2] “Harvard University international health care costs study”, with Hall, J., van Gool, K., Abiona, O., Yu, S., Longden, T., and Kenny, P., funded by Harvard University and OECD, 2018

[3] “Living alone and hospitalisation: Does it differ by different types of hospitalisations?” UTS Business Research Grants, University of Technology Sydney, 2016

[4] “Association of literacy and numeracy with adult health and socioeconomic outcomes”, with Cronin, P. and Reeve ,R.,  UTS Business Research Grants, University of Technology Sydney, 2015

[5] “Consultancy on the Health Care Pathways, Provider Payment and Associated Costs of Patients with Diabetes”, with Wong, C.Y., Hall, J. and van Gool, K., funded by Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (Australia) and OECD.