Economics Department

Zhining Hu is Associate Professor of Economics at Gettysburg College. Her major research interests are Monetary Economics and East Asian Economy. Her published work mainly focuses on economic development and growth of East Asia. She has continued her research on this economic region. Her current research involves modeling the role of government in financial markets and the linkage between income inequality and human capital.

Hu teaches courses in Capstone Seminar in Mathematical Economics, Quantitative Methods in Economics, Money and Financial Intermediaries, East Asian Economic History and Development, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Principles of Macroeconomics.

During recent years, Hu has been serving on the Academic Policy and Program Committee, Global Studies Program Committee, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advancement (I.D.E.A) Council, and Asian Studies Committee. She is also faculty advisor to the Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society for Economics.