Maiting Zhuang

Economics

Assistant Professor

Stockholm School of Economics

Maiting Zhuang is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics and an affiliated researcher with the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum). She received her PhD from the Paris School of Economics in 2020.

Her research interests is Political Economy, Development Economics and Economics of Media.

She collects large-scale datasets of traditional and social media in China and use econometric and text analysis tools to evaluate how institutional constraints shape media content and how individuals’ beliefs and actions are in turn influenced by the media. A second theme of her research focuses on understanding the strategic interactions and incentives between autocratic elites.