Xijie Zhang, M. A.

From March 2022 to May 2022 Visiting Scholar at SKEMA Business School.

Since May 2021 employed at the DFG project "(Autonomous) Universities in Dynamic Competition".

Since July 2019 research assistant in the Department of Economic Policy and PhD student in the Department of Economic Theory and Policy at TU Ilmenau.

From October 2017 to June 2019 research assistant and PhD student in the Department of Economic Theory at TU Ilmenau.

From March 2017 to September 2017 student assistant in the Department of Audiovisual Technology, Institute of Media Technology at TU Ilmenau.

From March 2017 to May 2017 student assistant in the Department of Economic Theory, Institute of Economics, TU Ilmenau.

From October 2014 to June 2017 master studies in media and communication science at the TU Ilmenau.

Open Access

Competition in the higher education sector

Knowledge diffusion and networks

 Theory of economic policy

 Industrial economics

Media Economics Semester Paper

Specialization Module: VR/AR Applications (WS 2017/2018)

Supervision of proseminar and advanced seminar papers

Supervision of final theses

5th Research on Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop (RISE) von Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (München, Dezember 2022)

Workshop of Difference-in-Differences with Panel Data (instructed by Jeffrey M. Wooldrige) (Online, Dezember 2022)

10th SIdE-IEA (Italian Econometric Society) Workshop for PhD students in Econometrics and Empirical Economics (WEEE) (Bertinoro/Italien, September 2022)

19th Conference of the International Joseph Schumpeter Society (Online, Juli 2022)

Workshop on The Economics and Organisation of Science von Technische Universität München (Heilbronn, Mai 2022)

The 15th Workshop on The Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research von KU Leuven (Leuven/Belgien, April 2022)

NBER Productivity Seminar (wöchentlich seit November 2021)

18th Conference of the International Joseph Schumpeter Society (Online, Juli 2021)

2019 Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Medienökonomie der DGPuK (Köln, September 2019)

Cantner, U., Grebel, T., & Zhang, X. (2023). The architecture of global knowledge production–do low-income countries get more involved?. Industrial and Corporate Change, dtad042. https://academic.oup.com/icc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icc/dtad042/7246675?redirectedFrom=fulltext.

Zhang, Xijie, Grebel, Thomas and Budzinski, Oliver. "The Prices of Open Access Publishing: The Composition of APC across Different Fields of Sciences". Zur Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien: Schnittstellen und Hintergründe, edited by Oliver Budzinski, Justus Haucap, Annika Stöhr and Dirk Wentzel, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021, pp. 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724523-014.

Budzinski, O.; Grebel, T.; Wolling, J.; Zhang, X.: Drivers of article processing charges in open access. Scientometrics (2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03578-3.

Budzinski, O.; Noskova, V. & Zhang, X.: The brave new world of digital personal assistants: benefits and challenges from an economic perspective. Netnomics 20, 177-194 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11066-019-09133-4.

Zhang, X., Weidner, F. & Broll, W. (2017): Exploring Users Views on Immersive Adult Entertainment Applications. In 2017 Ninth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) (pp. 1-3). IEEE.