On December 22, 2018, the 2018 "Pushan World Economics Excellent Paper Award" (referred to as "Pushan Award") review meeting and the 2nd meeting of the Pushan Award Academic Committee was held in Beijing. The 2018 Pushan Awards began to essay on January 8 this year. On the basis of self-recommendation and expert recommendation, a total of 163 candidate works were received. After two rounds of screening, 11 papers stand out from the final review. Twelve authors of 10 candidate papers participated in the on-site review meeting and made presentations and questions and answers. According to the "Pushan Foundation Charter" and the Pushan Awards Announcement, the Pushan Awards Academic Committee reviewed 11 papers in the final review section, followed by unnamed scores. According to the score ranking, a total of 5 award-winning papers were selected.

The young teachers Dai Mi and Xu Jianwei of our school published the cooperation paper "Firm-specific exchange rate shocks and employment adjustment: Evidence from China" published in the September 2017 Journal of International Economics (ABS 4 Weekly) won the Pushan Youth Paper Award.

The paper uses Chinese enterprise-level data to study the impact of exchange rate shocks on employment allocation in the industry. For the first time, the paper puts forward the concept of “effective exchange rate at the enterprise level” to accurately measure the exchange rate changes faced by different enterprises. The article finds that the export intensity of enterprises, the intensity of imports of intermediate goods, and the distribution of trading partners will significantly affect the employment effect of exchange rates. The importance of trading partners is generally consistent with the degree of external dependence of enterprises. In addition, the heterogeneity of the introduction of trading partner distributions will greatly increase the estimate of the exchange rate contribution to employment allocation within the industry.

The Pushan Prize is designed to commemorate Professor Pushan, an outstanding predecessor of China's world economics, and to promote Professor Pushan's idealism of "not confessing to the nine deaths," and the high quality of self-denial and indifferent fame and fortune. The Pushan Award has been officially recognized as an outstanding achievement of the non-government department of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Statistics Annual Report (Humanities and Social Sciences), which is the ministerial award of the general title. The Pushan Awards mainly reward the world's economy, open macroeconomics, international finance, international trade, economic development and growth, as well as original academic research and policy research in China's foreign economic relations.