Yue Teng Address: Via Verdi 26, 38122 , Email: [email protected] Born on 30/04/1989, in Peking

Education

10/2014-ongoing, Ph.D. Programme in Development · (Università degli Studi di Trento), Italy University of (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 ) · 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 Transcaucasian Republics from the Late 1940s to the 1980s · Educational Inequality at Regional Level and Its Determinants: The Evidence of Latin America in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Conference Presentations

07/2017, the 2017 Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM 2017) by Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland 06/2017, the 66th Annual Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), University of Côte d'Azur, France 06/2017, the 16th Nordic Conference in Development Economics by Nordic Network in Development Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 04/2017, the 14th Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days by Augustin Cournot Doctoral School, University of Strasbourg, France 04/2017, GHCC 10th Anniversary Conference on "Global Inequality: A Divided History" by Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC), University of Warwick, the UK 03/2017, the 2017 LEER Workshop on Education Economics by Leuven Economics of Education (LEER), Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 03/2017, the 10th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics by Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS-Econ), Technical University of Dortmund, Germany 01/2017, the 21st Conference of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society, Budapest University of Economics and Technology, Hungary 07/2016, Summer School on Globalisation and Inequality by Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Scholarship and Grant

Three-Year Full Ph.D. Scholarship by the University of Trento and the

Language Skills

Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent), German (beginner), Italian (beginner)

Computer Skills

MS Office, EViews, SPSS, Stata 2