On the evening of May 8, the official website of Liaoning University released the news ""Double First-Class" Major Achievements: Liaoning University Introduces Professor Russell Cooper, a foreign world-class economist, full-time.

According to the news, recently, Russell W. Cooper, the world's top macroeconomist and professor of economics at the European University College, officially agreed to join Liaoning University full-time as a full-time professor at the China Economic Research Institute (CERI) of Liaoning University.

According to Liaoning University, Russell Wade Cooper, born in Florida, USA, is a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a fellow of the Econometrics Society, and a fellow of the American Economic Association. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and has held long-time faculty positions at Yale University, Penn State University, and was a National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1987-88.

According to Liaoning University, Professor Cooper is one of the world's top macroeconomists, committed to exploring the problem of incomplete information in macroeconomics, and his ideas on coordinated games have become an important theoretical cornerstone in the field of macroeconomics. He has published more than 100 high-level academic papers in the fields of macroeconomics, international economics, industrial organization, experimental economics, labor economics and monetary economics, and a total of 19 papers have been published in five top international journals of economics.

Among them, the paper "Coordinating coordination failures in Keynesian models" published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (Quarterly Journal of Economics) has been cited 2,395 times, and the paper "On the nature of capital" published in the Review of Economic Studies adjustment costs, with 1,577 citations, and Google Scholar with a total of 19,694 citations, with an H-index of 55. These research results enjoy high authority and influence in the field of macroeconomics, and have become a must-read classic literature for researchers in related fields. His outstanding contributions to the field of economics have made him recognized as one of the world's top experts in the field of macroeconomics.

Previously, Professor Cooper was appointed as a tenured honorary professor at Liaoning University, and twice came to the university to teach "dynamic optimization" to doctoral students in economics. After joining the company full-time, Professor Cooper will teach undergraduate and doctoral students in the economics discipline of Liaoning University respectively, and all his future research results will be signed by "Liaoning University", and contribute to the further global recruitment and local education of Liaoning University.

Liaoning University said that the full-time introduction of Professor Russell Wade Cooper is another landmark achievement of the "double first-class" construction of Liaoning University, which demonstrates the confidence and ability of Liaoning University to build the economic discipline into a truly "world-class discipline", and also marks a new level of faculty in China's economic research! This move will not only help the academic status and international influence of the economics discipline of Liaoning University to a new level, but also contribute to the cultivation of more elite talents in the field of economics in China.

Liaoning University is a comprehensive university with literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, science, engineering, medicine, art and other disciplines, and is a key construction university of the national "211 Project" and a national "double first-class" construction university.

In August 2022, Yu Miaojie, who was formerly the secretary of the Party Committee and vice president of the National School of Development of Peking University, went north to serve as the president of Liaoning University. Miaojie Yu's main research areas are international trade, international economics, and development economics. According to the official website of the National School of Development of Peking University, Yu Miaojie is one of the top 1% highly cited economists in the global economics and management category, and the only Chinese scholar who has won the "Royal Prize in Economics" so far.

Since then, Liaoning University has introduced a number of well-known economists. For example, in January last year, well-known economists Li Jianpei and Li Zhiyuan joined Liaoning University one after another.

According to public information, Li Jianpei, female, is a professor of economics and doctoral supervisor at the University of International Business and Economics. He graduated from Humboldt University in Germany with a Ph.D. degree, and is mainly engaged in the research of industrial organization theory and contract theory, including the championship mechanism in team production, the design of optimal procurement contract, the design of tort liability in the expert market, and differential pricing.

Li Zhiyuan, male, Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis, is a professor and deputy director of the Department of World Economy at the School of Economics of Fudan University, a doctoral supervisor, a young scholar of the National Talent Program, a Shanghai Shuguang Scholar, a Pujiang talent, and an outstanding talent of Fudan University. Zhiyuan Li's main research interests include international trade theory and empirical evidence, international trade policy, etc.