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Staff of the Max Planck Institute

Zuoquan Zhao

	Zuoquan Zhao
	Senior Research Fellow
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Educational Background

2004	Ph.D. (Public Policy), George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
1990	Ph.D. (Engineering Geology), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
1987	M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
1984	B.E., Changchun University of Earth Sciences, Changchun, China.

Employment Experience

2005~04/2007	Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany.
2004~2005	Post-Doctoral Researcher, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
1999~2004	Research Assistant, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
1997~1998	Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
1996~1997	Research Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
1990~1995	Research Assistant Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Interests

• Growth and Agglomeration; Spatial Production Functions.
• Agglomeration and Entrepreneurship.
• Spatial Economic Analysis; Spatial and Economic Inequality; Spatial Economic Development Policy.
• Location-Based Spatial Analysis; Spatial Regression Analysis.
• Spatial Congruence; Spatial Relations; Shape Similarity.

Publications

Publications:

• Zhao, Zuoquan, and Roger R. Stough. 2005. Measuring similarity among various shapes based on geometrical matching, Geographical Analysis 37(4): 371-383.
• Zhao, Zuoquan, Ning Li, and Roger R. Stough. 2003. Note on the measurement of spatial imbalance, Geographical Analysis 35 (2): 170-176.

Conference Presentations:

• "Growth and agglomeration: A spatial production function and the case of US industry 1969-2000," The 44th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, San Diego, California, February 23-26, 2005.
• "A simple framework for spatial correlation/regression analysis," The 100th AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 14-19, 2004.
• "Spatial dispersion of the Northeast economy: 1969-2000," The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Regional Science Association, Binghamton, New York, November 6-8, 2003.
• "Measuring shape similarity under similarity transformation," The 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 5-8, 2003.
• "Recounting spatial inequality: toward a cross sectional analysis," The 41st Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, Arlington, Virginia, April 11-13, 2002.