Dr Han Lin joined the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) at the University of Exeter Business School in April 2021 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Before joining TARC he has held different positions at the University of Exeter and University of Leeds.
He is an applied econometrician and his primary research interests are within the field of public finance, international trade, financial economics and applied econometrics. His ongoing research focuses on the impacts of citizenship by investment (CBI) programs on the tax evasion/avoidance and their impacts on the economic growth in the host countries.
He has held various research posts before joined UEBS, which were related to economics theory, health economics, real estate economics and financial econometrics. He has also taught (Further) Financial Mathematics and Intermediate Economics to Undergraduate students and Master students. He recently demonstrated his ability to attract external funding by successfully applying for a research grant by Eastern ARC Quantitative Social Science Research Fund for project ’China Emissions and Econometrics’.
Nationality: Chinese
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- Financial Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- International Trade
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Journal articles
Lin H, Lloyd T, McCorriston S (2021). An Odd Crisis: Covid-19 and UK Food Prices.
BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY,
17, 42-48.
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Li CM, Cui T, Nie R, Lin H, Shan Y (2019). Does diversification help improve the performance of coal companies? Evidence from China's listed coal companies.
Resources Policy,
61, 88-98.
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Does diversification help improve the performance of coal companies? Evidence from China's listed coal companies
As an important component of the natural resources and energy market, China's coal market has experienced a continuous downturn in recent years. Many coal enterprises have been diversifying their businesses in an effort to enhance their corporate performance. Although many studies have examined the relationship between diversification and performance, researchers have not reached a consensus regarding the nature of this relationship. Additionally, to our knowledge, no study has specifically examined this relationship in coal enterprises. In view of China's coal industry characteristics, such as natural resource dependence and state ownership, other industries’ diversified development could not provide good consults for it. In this study, we investigate the relationship between diversification and corporate performance by analyzing the business data of all of China's listed coal enterprises. After determining 35 listed coal enterprises’ main business and the proportion of their profit from the coal business, we choose 10 enterprises as representatives. Correlation and regression analyses including the time-series data analysis and panel data analysis are conducted to examine the relationship between diversification and performance. The results indicate that this relationship varies across firms; we observe nonlinear, positive linear, negative linear, and nonexistent relationships in the sample. Therefore, diversified development is not the “panacea” for the decline of coal enterprise. Enterprise performance is determined by integrated internal and external factors beyond diversification, including the market environment, the industry environment, and policy. Coal enterprises that aim to develop diversification strategy should be cautious. In addition, this study can serve as a reference for other energy enterprises that are planning to diversify their business to improve performance.
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Publications by year
2021
Lin H, Lloyd T, McCorriston S (2021). An Odd Crisis: Covid-19 and UK Food Prices.
BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY,
17, 42-48.
Author URL.
DOI.
2019
Li CM, Cui T, Nie R, Lin H, Shan Y (2019). Does diversification help improve the performance of coal companies? Evidence from China's listed coal companies.
Resources Policy,
61, 88-98.
Abstract:
Does diversification help improve the performance of coal companies? Evidence from China's listed coal companies
As an important component of the natural resources and energy market, China's coal market has experienced a continuous downturn in recent years. Many coal enterprises have been diversifying their businesses in an effort to enhance their corporate performance. Although many studies have examined the relationship between diversification and performance, researchers have not reached a consensus regarding the nature of this relationship. Additionally, to our knowledge, no study has specifically examined this relationship in coal enterprises. In view of China's coal industry characteristics, such as natural resource dependence and state ownership, other industries’ diversified development could not provide good consults for it. In this study, we investigate the relationship between diversification and corporate performance by analyzing the business data of all of China's listed coal enterprises. After determining 35 listed coal enterprises’ main business and the proportion of their profit from the coal business, we choose 10 enterprises as representatives. Correlation and regression analyses including the time-series data analysis and panel data analysis are conducted to examine the relationship between diversification and performance. The results indicate that this relationship varies across firms; we observe nonlinear, positive linear, negative linear, and nonexistent relationships in the sample. Therefore, diversified development is not the “panacea” for the decline of coal enterprise. Enterprise performance is determined by integrated internal and external factors beyond diversification, including the market environment, the industry environment, and policy. Coal enterprises that aim to develop diversification strategy should be cautious. In addition, this study can serve as a reference for other energy enterprises that are planning to diversify their business to improve performance.
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Han is of interest to teach Financial Economics, Econometrics, Macroeconomics, and public finance.
