A Brief Introduction of Research directions to Center for Quantitative Economics of Jilin University,

Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the MoE

Quantitative Economics Research Center of Jilin University was established in October 1999, and was accredited Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education on September 25th, 2000.

Since its foundation, the Center has, adhering to the principle of combining theoretical research with applied research, and combining quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, focused on major frontier problems concerning society and economy. Center has four major research areas:

1.“Economic cycle and economic policy measurement”,

This research direction takes advantage of modern macroeconomic theory and various econometric methods, on the basis of dynamic system measure economic cycle, through the establishment of boom index, policy strength index and direction of economic operation index, carrying out timely dynamic monitoring in aspect of the macroeconomic situation and the effect of economic policy.

2.“Power paradigm: economic theory system construction”,

Study the influence of the economic power in various economy fields, and explore how to make full use of social resources and the optimal configuration from the perspective of power balance, and provide theoretical basis for the reasonable improvement of system

3.“Financial econometrics and risk management”,

This research direction focusing on carrying out quantitative theory, method and empirical research in following areas: macro financial development and policies, the country's financial stability, systemic and regional financial risk, financial market development and optimization, the micro financial structure, financial decisions, as well as financial asset pricing and wave.

4.“Micro-econometrics and simulation”,

This direction is on the basis of economic theory and microeconomic measurement and simulation methods, taking economic main body and the market as the main study object, tracked the latest theory and method progress of related research at home and abroad, as well as practical problems which is hunger for being solved in progress of economic operation, taking promotion of theoretical innovation and service for major economic decisions as two basic objectives.

5.“Economic and Social Index”,

The research direction is mainly engaged in economic and social index research, including the economic and social index of index system construction, economic and social index quantitative measurement and comprehensive evaluation, economic and social index of the regular release and economic and social operation quality evaluation.