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Yuchen Feng
(he/him)
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Research student
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Overview
Feng is a PhD student in Economics, funded by ESRC Wales DTP collaborative studentship with the Office for National Statistics. He is supervised by Professor Andrew Henley, Dr Anna Kochanova and Dr Tommaso Reggiani.
He mainly focuses on firm productivity in the UK with particular attention on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). He is trying to explain the productivity difference by innovation and management practices. His research is involving in some firm survey databases conducted by the ONS, such as the Annual Business Survey (ABS), the UK Innovation Survey (UKIS), and the Management and Expectations Survey (MES) etc. He has completed the Secure Research Service training as an Accredited Researcher at the ONS.
He completed the two training years of 2+2 PhD route at Cardiff Business School: MRes Advanced Economics with Merit in 2022 and MSc Economics with Distinction in 2021. Prior to PhD programme, he completed MSc Financial Economics with Distinction in 2020 at CARBS and Bachelor of Finance in 2018 at Harbin University of Commerce.
Alongside his academic studies, he has gained practical experience through internships at a Trust Company and an Investment Bank, as well as serving as a Teaching Assistant. In 2024, he worked as a Research Assistant on a project led by Dr. Jin Ho Kim, focusing on labor market concentration in the UK semiconductor industry. He is currently a Research Assistant for The Productivity Institute Wales Forum, working under Professor Melanie Jones.
Details of ongoing research and the CV can be found on the personal website.
Publication
2025
- Feng, Y., Henley, A. and Kochanova, A. 2025. The role of management practices in productivity: Does family ownership matter?. Working paper. The Productivity Institute. Available at: https://www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the-role-of-management-practices-in-productivity-does-family-ownership-matter/
2023
- Zhu, K., Du, L. and Feng, Y. 2023. Government attention on environmental protection and firms' carbon reduction actions: Evidence from text analysis of manufacturing enterprises. Journal of Cleaner Production 423, article number: 138703. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138703)
Articles
- Zhu, K., Du, L. and Feng, Y. 2023. Government attention on environmental protection and firms' carbon reduction actions: Evidence from text analysis of manufacturing enterprises. Journal of Cleaner Production 423, article number: 138703. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138703)
Monographs
- Feng, Y., Henley, A. and Kochanova, A. 2025. The role of management practices in productivity: Does family ownership matter?. Working paper. The Productivity Institute. Available at: https://www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the-role-of-management-practices-in-productivity-does-family-ownership-matter/
Research
Working in progress
1) “When Formal Management Practices Meet Informal Control: Family Governance and Productivity in UK Firms” Manuscript in revision (Revise & Resubmit) at Small Business Economics (with Andrew Henley, and Anna Kochanova)
2) “Truthfulness or Hypocrisy? Speculative Culture and Corporate Environmental Engagement” Under review (with Xiaoyu Wei and Kunyan Zhu)
3) How does cooperation impact on innovation and productivity? A CDM Model Approach
4) Do workers share in the returns to firm level R&D activity? Evidence from UK manufacturing firms
5) Dissecting the Productivity Disadvantage of Wales: A Firm-Level Decomposition Approach (with Melaine Jones, funded by Wales Productivity Forum)
Teaching
Tutorials:
BS2550 Microeconomics Theory 2 BSc (Academic year: 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26)
BS2551 Money Banking and Finance BSc (Academic year: 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26)
BST753 Quantitative Methods MSc (Academic year: 2021/22, 2022/23, 2024/25)