My name is Yanying Wei (韦艳莹). I am a lecturer in Financial Technology at Nanning University, School of Digital Economics. I received my M.Sc. in Finance from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Advisor: Prof. Zuoji Dong) and my B.Sc. in Financial Mathematics from Guangxi University.

My research interests include computational social science, policy simulation and agent-based modeling, industrial economics, regional economics, and machine learning applications in socioeconomic systems.

I am actively seeking a PhD position for Fall 2027 in computational social science, policy simulation, environmental economics, or regional economics. Feel free to reach out if you would like to discuss research collaboration, PhD opportunities, or policy-oriented empirical work.

     Computational Social Science
    Policy simulation and agent-based modeling
Machine learning for socioeconomic analysis
Causal inference and staggered DID

  

   Energy & Environmental Economics
  Carbon emission pathways and decoupling analysis
Energy policy reform evaluation
Green finance and environmental regulation

  

     Industrial & Regional Economics
    Corridor economy and regional development
Fiscal decentralization and institutional reform
Technology finance efficiency

  

Education

2019.09 - 2022.06: M.Sc. in Finance, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Advisor: Prof. Zuoji Dong. Research areas: applied economics, natural resource management, industrial economics.
2015.09 - 2019.06: B.Sc. in Financial Mathematics, Guangxi University (Project 211).

Publications

2026

Decision Rights, Fiscal Flows, and County Fiscal Expenditure: A Systems Perspective on China's Province-Managing-County Reform

Jianfeng Liu, Yanying Wei*, Saihong Wang*, Zuoji Dong

Systems, 14(7), 819.

2026

Optimizing regional carbon peak pathways under uncertainty: An integrated Tapio-LMDI-robust optimization framework with evidence from Guangxi, China

Yanying Wei*

Energy Conversion and Management: X, 31, 102058.

2026

The Impact of the Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy on Energy Intensity: Evidence from a Staggered Difference-in-Differences Design

Tianyu Wang, Yanying Wei*

Land, 15(6), 913.

2026

Fiscal Intermediaries, Transfer Delivery, and Sustainable Local Growth: Evidence from China’s Province-Managed-County Reform

Jianfeng Liu, Yanying Wei*, Saihong Wang*, Zuoji Dong

Sustainability, 18(11), 5276.

Review

Analyzing the impact of electricity reforms on energy supply security: Green finance as a policy perspective

Yanying Wei, Lin Shi, Yuhong Jiang, Qiuyu He*

Under review at Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

2025

Dynamic Network-LSTM model for quantitative analysis of infrastructure REITs' impact on urban rail transit debt ratios

Lin Shi, Yanying Wei*

Proceedings of the 2025 2nd International Conference on Economic Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (EDAI 2025). ACM.

2024

Analysis on efficiency and influencing factors of Guangxi technology and finance based on DEA model

Yanying Wei, Linxu Quan, Zhenxi Wei, Linyun Deng*

Journal of Innovations in Economics & Management, 5(1), 72.

2024

Dynamic evolution and trend frontiers in land use change research: A bibliometric analysis based on the WoS core database (1990–2020)

Duomin Wang, Haibo Yu, Yubin Huangfu, Yanying Wei, Zuoji Dong*

Management Review, 36(1), 87.

2022

Comprehensive land improvement innovation for rural revitalization: Public value creation and realization

Zuoji Dong, Yanying Wei, Conghui Ren, Saihong Wang*

Resources Science, 44(7), 1305–1315.

News

2026: Research outputs include fiscal governance, carbon peak pathways, low-carbon city policy, and sustainable local growth in Systems, Energy Conversion and Management: X, Land, and Sustainability.
2025: Promoted to Lecturer at the School of Digital Economics, Nanning University.
2025: Awarded provincial research funding for value-capture challenges and hub reconfiguration pathways in the Guangxi corridor economy.
2025: ACM EDAI 2025 paper on Dynamic Network-LSTM Model for Infrastructure REITs analysis.
2024: Research outputs include technology finance efficiency, ESG and innovation, and land use change research.
2022: Joined Nanning University after completing the M.Sc. in Finance at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.