Mr Bowen Liu

Mr Bowen Liu

The Department of Strategy and International Business
Research Fellow, the Centre for Responsible Business

Contact details

Email
b.liu.1@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Bowen Liu is a Research Fellow of Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. His research is in the areas of Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics and Political Economics. His current research focuses on delivering the Strand 5 (Economic strand) of the WM-AIR project that aims at investigating the social and economic impact of air pollution within West Midlands, UK.

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of Birmingham, 2021

MSc (Distinction) in Finance and Economics, University of Southampton, 2016

Biography

Bowen finished his PhD of Economics from University of Birmingham in 2021. As an Environmental Economist, his PhD research focuses on investigating the effectiveness of air pollution control policies in China. Bowen is interested in policy evaluation using interdisciplinary research method that include Econometrics and Machine Learning algorithms, with particular focus on policies and interventions that promote regional Economic development, Environmental protection and Sustainable development.

Other activities

Bowen has participated a number of research projects as co-investigator:

1. WM-Air, West Midlands Air Quality Improvement Programme, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), PI: Professor William Bloss. Co-investigator for the Strand 5 (Economics Strand) of the WM-Air Project. £5m, 2021-2023

2. Co-investigator for the “Impact of Covid-19 lockdown on air quality in selected megacities” project, Funded by IGI (The Institute for Global innovation) Clean Air Theme from University of Birmingham (£9,825), 2020

3. Co-investigator for the “Winter heating and air quality in China” project, Funded by IGI (The Institute for Global innovation) Clean Air Theme from University of Birmingham (£5,500), 2020-2021

Bowen is also a Reviewer for “Environmental and Resource Economics”  

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Liu, B, Bryson, JR, Sevinc, D, Cole, M, Elliott, R, Bartington, S, Bloss, W & Shi, Z 2023, 'Assessing the Impacts of Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone on Air Quality: Estimates from a Machine Learning and Synthetic Control Approach', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 86, no. 1-2, pp. 203-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00794-2, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00794-2

Song, C, Liu, B, Cheng, K, Cole, MA, Dai, Q, Elliott, RJR & Shi, Z 2023, 'Attribution of air quality benefits to clean winter heating polices in China: combining machine learning with causal inference', Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c06800

Hou, L, Dai, Q, Song, C, Liu, B, Guo, F, Dai, T, Li, L, Liu, B, Bi, X, Zhang, Y & Feng, Y 2022, 'Revealing drivers of haze pollution by explainable machine learning', Environmental Science and Technology Letters, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 112–119. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00865

Shi, Z, Song, C, Liu, B, Lu, G, Xu, J, VU, VT, Elliott, RJR, Li, W, Bloss, W & Harrison, R 2021, 'Abrupt but smaller than expected changes in surface air quality attributable to COVID-19 lockdowns', Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 3, eabd6696. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd6696

Dai, Q, Hou, L, Liu, B, Zhang, Y, Song, C, Shi, Z, Hopke, PK & Feng, Y 2021, 'Spring festival and COVID-19 lockdown: disentangling PM sources in major Chinese cities', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 11, e2021GL093403. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093403

Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR & Liu, B 2020, 'The Impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown on air pollution and health: a machine learning and augmented synthetic control approach', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 553-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00483-4

Xu, L, Zhang, J, Sun, X, Xu, S, Shan, M, Yuan, Q, Liu, L, Du, Z, Liu, D, Xu, D, Song, C, Liu, B, Lu, G, Shi, Z & Li, W 2020, 'Variation in Concentration and Sources of Black Carbon in a Megacity of China During the COVID‐19 Pandemic', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 47, no. 23, e2020GL090444. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090444

Letter

Liu, L, Zhang, J, Du, R, Teng, X, Hu, R, Yuan, Q, Tang, S, Ren, C, Huang, X, Xu, L, Zhang, Y, Zhang, X, Song, C, Liu, B, Lu, G, Shi, Z & Li, W 2021, 'Chemistry of atmospheric fine particles during the COVID-19 pandemic in a megacity of eastern China', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 2, 2020GL091611. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091611

Other report

Shi, Z, Liu, B, Cheng, K, Elliott, R, Cole, M & Bryson, J 2022, Quantifying the impact of clean air policy interventions for air quality management. University of Birmingham. https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004040, https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004040

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