學習履歷
1986年獲復旦大學世界經濟專業學士，
1988年獲賓夕法尼亞州立大學經濟學碩士學位，
1991年獲加州大學伯克利分校商業管理碩士（金融學），
1992年獲加州大學伯克利分校經濟學博士學位，
擔任職務
魏尚進教授還曾經擔任哈佛大學甘迺迪學院公共政策副教授及助理教授（1992-2000）、布魯金斯研究所國際經濟學新世紀講席高級研究員（1999-2001）、世界銀行顧問（1999-2000）。
另外，魏尚進教授還擔任Journal of International Economics、Journal of Development Economics、Journal of International Financial Markets、Institutions & Money等學術期刊的副主編和The China Economic Review的顧問編委。
全球知名經濟學研究資料庫RePEc(Research Papers in Economics)2008年發布的全球經濟學家排名（以IDEAS經濟學及金融研究指數為依據）顯示,截至2008年3月,魏尚進位居全球經濟學家第76位,這也是年度排名全球前百位經濟學家中僅有的華人。
2012年3月23日，美國聯邦儲備系統(FED)聖路易斯分行所屬的一個名為IDEAS的經濟研究機構新公布了一份全球3.1萬名經濟學家的排名。排在這份名單前5%的頂級經濟學家中，擁有中國血統（華裔）的經濟學家共有14人。魏尚進教授在華裔經濟學家中排名第一位，在全球經濟學家中排名第152位。
魏尚進教授同時為中國經濟學研究的國際化進程和人才培養做出了卓越 貢獻。由魏尚進教授共同組織啟動並擔任美方聯繫人的美國國民經濟研究局（NBER）-北京大學中國經濟研究中心（CCER）年會已經舉辦14年；由魏尚進教授共同組織的哥倫比亞大學-清華大學國際經濟研討會也已舉辦多屆。此外，魏尚進教授還培養了一大批中國經濟學研究青年學子，希望用國際化的視野深入研究中國本土化問題，為中國乃至世界的經濟發展提供紮實的研究基礎。
研究領域
主要研究領域為國際金融、國際貿易、政府治理和改革、中國經濟以及總量經濟學。
獲獎
2015年6月，魏尚進、張曉波合著的《競爭性儲蓄動機：中國持續增長的性別比例與儲蓄率》（The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Rations and Savings Rates in China）獲得第十六屆（2014年度）孫冶方經濟科學獎。
人物作品
學術論文
[1] “TradeLiberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from ChineseExporters,” with Amit K. Khandelwal and Peter K. Schott, forthcoming, American Economic Review.
[2] “Tracing Value-added and Double Counting inGross Exports,” (with Robert Koopman and Zhi Wang), forthcoming, American Economic Review.
[3] “A Faith-based Initiative Meetsthe Evidence: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate CurrentAccount Adjustment?” (withMenzie Chinn), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
[4] “From the Financial Crisis to the Real Economy: UsingFirm-level Data to Identify Transmission Channels,” with Stijn Claessens andHui Tong, Journal of International Economics, 2012,88 (2): 375-387.
[5] “Estimating Domestic Content in ExportsWhen Processing Trade is Pervasive,” (with Robert Koopman and Zhi Wang), Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99: 178-189.
[6] “The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidencefrom Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China,” (with X. Zhang), Journal ofPolitical Economy, 2011, 119 (3): 511-564.
[7] “DoesCorporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?” withWoochan Kim and Taeyoon Sung, Journal of International Economics, 2011, 85 (1):25-41.
[8] “When Is Quality of Financial System aSource of Comparative Advantage?” (with Jiandong Ju), Journal of InternationalEconomics, 2011, 84 (2): 178-187.
[9] “The role of Intermediaries in FacilitatingTrade,” with JaeBin Ahn and Amit Khandelwal, Journal of InternationalEconomics, 2011, 84 (1): 73-85.
[10]“The Composition Matters: Capital Flows andLiquidity Constraint during a Global Economic Crisis,” (with Hui Tong) Reviewof Financial Studies, 2010, 24 (6): 2023-2052.
[11] “Domestic Institutions and the BypassEffect of Financial Globalization,” (with Jiandong Ju), American EconomicJournal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2(4): 173–204.
[12] Financial Globalization andEconomic Policies (with AyhanKose, Kenneth Rogoff, and Eswar Prasad), Handbook of Development Economics,Vol. 5, edited by Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig, North-Holland, 2010, pp.4283-4362.
[13] Does the Global FiremanInadvertently Add Fuel to the Fire? New Evidence from Institutional Investors'Responses to IMF Program Announcements (with Zhiwei Zhang), Journal of International Moneyand Finance, 2010, 29 (4): 728-741.
[14]"Do External Interventions Work? The Case ofTrade Reform Conditions in IMF Supported Programs," (with Zhiwi Zhang), Journal of DevelopmentEconomics, 2010, May: 71-81.
[15]"The Smuggling of Art, and theArt of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property andAntiques," (with RaymondFisman), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 2009, 1(3): 82-96.
[16]"The Value of Making Commitments Externally:Evidence from WTO Accessions,"(with Man-Keung Tang), Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78(2):216-229.
[17]"Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal," (with M. Ayhan Kose & EswarPrasad & Kenneth S. Rogoff), IMF Staff Papers, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, 2009, 56(1): 8-62.
[18]Corruption and cross-borderinvestment in emerging markets: Firm-level evidence, (with Beata S. Javorcik), Journal of InternationalMoney and Finance, 2009, 28, (4): 605-624.
[19]"Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A NewExplanation for Entrepôt Trade,"(with Raymond Fisman & Peter Moustakerski), 2008, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, 90(3): 587-592.
[20]"In Search of a Euro Effect: Big lessonsfrom a Big Mac Meal?," Journal of International Moneyand Finance, (with DavidParsley), Elsevier, 27(2): 260-276, March, 2008.
[21]"Estimation of De Facto Exchange RateRegimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and BasketWeights," (with J.Frankel), IMF StaffPapers, Palgrave MacmillanJournals, vol. 55(3), pages 384-416, July, 2008.
[22]“A Prism into the PPP Puzzles: TheMicrofoundations of the Big Mac Real Exchange Rate,” (with David Parsley), Economic Journal, 117(523): 1336-1356, October 2007.
[23]“Assessing China’s Exchange Rate Regime,”(with J. Frankel), Economic Policy, 22: 575-627, October 2007.
[24]“Collateral Damage: Capital Controls andInternational Trade,” (with Z. Zhang), Journal of International Money andFinance, Vol. 26(5): 841-863,September, 2007.
[25] “MonetaryPolicies for Developing Countries: The Role of Institutional Quality,” (with H.Huang), Journal of International Economics, 70(1): 239-252, September, 2006.
[26]“Transparency and InternationalPortfolio Holdings” (with Gaston Gelos), Journal of Finance, December 2005.
[27]“Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from'Missing Imports' in China”(with Raymond Fisman), Journal of Political Economy, 2004, vol. 112, no. 2, p471-496.
[28]“Comment on ‘Neither a Borrower Nor aLender: Does China’s Zero Net Foreign Asset Position Make Economic Sense?’ byDavid Dollar and Aart Kraay,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 53(5): 973-979,July, 2006.
[29]"Connecting two views on financialglobalization: Can we make further progress?," Journal of the Japanese InternationalEconomics,20(4): 459-481, December, 2006.
[30]“Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is ItJustified?” (with Mary Amiti), Economic Policy, April 2005.
[31]“Does Insider Trading Raise MarketVolatility?” (with Julan Du), Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (October), 927-956.
[32]“Pollution Havens and Foreign DirectInvestment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?,” (with Beata S. Javorcik), Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, 3(2), Article 8. (B.E.Journal).
[33]“Foreign Portfolio Investors Before andDuring a Crisis,” (with Woochan Kim), Journal of International Economics, 2002, 56(1): 77-96.
[34]“Offshore Investment Funds: Monsters inEmerging Markets?” (with Woochan Kim), Journal of Development Economics, 2002,Vol. 848.
[35]“Explaining the Border Effect: The Role ofExchange Rate Variability, Shipping Costs, and Geography,” (with DavidParsley), Journal of International Economics, October 2001, 55(1): 87-105.
[36]“The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall:the Retail Price Differences across U.S. Cities,” (with Paul O’Connell), Journal of International Economics, 2002, 56(1): 21-54.
[37]"Convergence to the Law of One PriceWithout Trade Barriers or Currency Fluctuations?" (with D. Parsley), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 1996, No.447, 1211-1236.
[38]“Local Corruption and Global Capital Flows,” Brookings Papers onEconomic Activity, 2000(2): 303-354.
[39]"How Taxing isCorruption on International Investors?" Review of Economics andStatistics, February 2000, 82(1): 1-11.
[40]“Domestic Crony Capitalismand International Fickle Capital: Is There a Connection?” 2001, InternationalFinance, 4(1): 15-45.
[41]“The China Money Puzzle:Will a Devaluation of the Yuan Help or Hurt the Hong Kong Dollar?” (S.-J. Wei,L. Liu, Z. Wang, and W.T. Woo), China Economic Review, 2000(11): 171-188.
[42]"Currency Hedging andGoods Trade," European Economic Review, 1999, (43) 1371-1394.
[43]"Open Regionalism ina World of Continental Trade Blocs," (with Jeffrey Frankel), IMF StaffPapers, Vol. 45, No. 3, September 1998.
[44]"Gradualism versusBig Bang: Speed and Sustainability of Reforms," Canadian Journal ofEconomics, XXX(4b), November, 1997, p1234-1247.
[45]"To Shock or not toShock: Economics and Political Economy of Large-scale Reforms" (with P.Lian) Economics and Politics, 10(2): 161-183, July, 1998.
[46]"Regional TradingArrangements: Natural or Supernatural?" (with J. Frankel and E. Stein), American Economic Review, 86(2), May, 1996, p52-56.
[47]"Trading Blocs andthe Americas: The Natural, the Unnatural, and the Super-natural?" (withJ.Frankel and E. Stein), Journal of Development Economics, June, 1995,47:61-95.
[48]"Insignificant andInconsequential Hysteresis: The Case of U.S. Bilateral Trade" (With D.Parsley). The Review of Economics and Statistics, November, 1993, p606-613.
[49]"Can Regional TradeBlocs be a Stepping Stone to Global Free Trade?" (S.J. Wei and J. Frankel) International Review of Economics and Finance, 5(4): 339-347, 1996.
[50]"Price Volatility Without News aboutFundamentals", Economics Letters, 37: 453-458, 1991.
著作
在經濟學國際頂級期刊（top5）American Economic Review、Journal of Political Economy、Quarterly Journal of Economics等發表論文近十篇，在經濟學金融學國際頂級期刊Economic Journal、Economic Policy、Review of Economics and Statistics、Journal of International Money and Finance、Journal of International Economics、Journal of Development Economics、Journal of Finance等發表論文數十篇。
著有The Dynamics of Asian Financial Integration: Facts and Analytics（合編，2011）、China’s Growing Role in the World Trade（2010，和Robert Feenstra教授合作編著，中文版即將由北京大學出版社出版）、Evaluating the Effectiveness of Trade Conditions in Fund Supported Programs（2005）、The Globalization of the Chinese Economy（2002）、Economic Globalization: Finance, Trade, and Policy Reforms（2000）、Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System（合著，1997）等學術專著。
