Degrees & Credentials:
PhD, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Alberta, Canada, 2004
BS, Finance and Insurance, Central University of Finance and Economics, China, 1998
Interests & Expertise:
Marketing and Consumer Economics
Experimental Economics
Resource and Environmental Economics
Regional Development
Biography:
Wuyang Hu was born in Beijing, China. He earned his PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2004. He is currently a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining The Ohio State University in 2018, Dr. Hu was the H. B. Price endowed professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and co-founder of the Food System Innovation Center at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hu was also the faculty leader of the undergraduate academic quiz bowl team for the University of Kentucky. His team won the national championship twice in a row in 2016 and 2017.
Since 2011, Dr. Hu has been the editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, a mainstream academic agricultural economics journal and the flagship journal of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. He was Chair of the China Section under the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Dr. Hu’s research focuses on consumer economics, behavioral economics, marketing, applied econometrics, environmental and resource economics, as well as development economics. He has published nearly ninety articles in journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, the European Review of Agricultural Economics, Marine Resource Economics, and Growth and Change. His publications have won multiple outstanding journal article awards in the U.S. and Canada, and have been picked up by the popular press such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In addition to being a frequent commentator on local and international TV channels, Dr. Hu is also a reviewer or board member for over 50 academic journals and professional organizations.