Yue Teng Address: Via Verdi 26, 38122 Trento, Italy Email:
[email protected] Born on 30/04/1989, in Peking Education 10/2014-ongoing, Ph.D. Programme in Development Economics · University of Trento (Università degli Studi di Trento), Italy University of Florence (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Italy · Dissertation: South-South Trade, Export Sophistication, and Structural Transformation: Empirical Studies on Developing Countries from 1995 to 2014 (in progress) · Supervisor: Professor Giuseppe Folloni 10/2012-10/2014, M.Sc. in International Economics · University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Germany · Supervisor: Professor Jörg Baten 09/2011-08/2012, M.Sc. in Business Studies (Track in International Management) · University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam), the Netherlands · Supervisor: Dr Ilir Haxhi 09/2007-07/2011, Bachelor's Degree in International Economics and Trade · China Agricultural University, Peking, China · Supervisor: Professor Juan Qiao Academic Interests · Trade, Industrialisation, and Structural Transformation · Political Economy of Globalisation and Marxian Economics · Soviet Development Model and Soviet Economic History Working Papers · What Determines the Sophistication of Developing Countries' Northbound Exports and Southbound Exports? (Chapter 4 of Ph.D. dissertation) · The Illusion of South-South Trade (Chapter 2 of Ph.D. dissertation) · Life in the Periphery of Empire: An Anthropometric Assessment of Living Standard and Its 1 Ethnoregional Disparity in the Soviet Central Asian and