Specialties: Globalization, Trade, Tariff, Currency Exchange Rate, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Asian Economies, Business, Investment, Geopolitics, Corruption and Anticorruption

Guangjun Qu is an international economist whose teaching and research explore the global consequences of U.S. trade and capital flows. His interests include the causes and effects of the U.S. trade deficit, reshaping global supply chains, and the dominance of the U.S. dollar in the global economy. At DePauw, he also teaches Macroeconomics and Asian Economies. His courses examine how fiscal and monetary policy decisions impact everyday life, and how countries such as China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam have achieved rapid economic growth.

Qu’s research investigates the far-reaching effects of U.S. trade policy, including student-faculty collaborative projects analyzing the U.S.–China trade war. He has also published in leading journals on government corruption and anti-corruption strategies, using psychological and behavioral perspectives to explore how citizens perceive corruption. 

Media Publications: 

• How much do you need to make to be considered middle-class in Indiana?, WISHTV, May 17, 2024
• Store closings continue at Brookwood Village shopping center in Homewood, ABC 33/40, Jul 13, 2020
• Coronavirus may change the face of retail, ABC 33/40, Apr 16, 2020
• Coronavirus and stock freefall, WVTM 13, Feb 27, 2020.
• How effective was the recent anticorruption campaign in China?, American Economic Association, Jan 4, 2020

Scholarly Publications:

•  “Reshaping Global Supply Chains: The Impacts of the U.S.-China Trade War and China’s Zero Covid Policy”, working paper.
• “Corruption Perception during the Pandemic”, working paper.
• “Explaining the Standard Errors of Corruption Perception Indices”, with Bob Slagter, Kevin Sylwester, and Kyle Doiron, 2019, Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(4), 907-920.
• “Anticorruption and Growth: Evidence from China”, with Kevin Sylwester and Feng Wang, 2018, European Journal of Political Economy, 55, 373-390.