Haoran Sun

Hello!

I am a Researcher at Durham University Business School, where I work on the Smart & Scale Up project with a business support provider in the North East of England, analysing regional scaleup dynamics and their economic impact in North East England using firm-level microdata. 

My research examines how public policy, finance and market structure shape firm innovation, productivity and growth. It includes applied microeconometric work on UK firm-level microdata and game-theoretic modelling of industrial policy. My fields are industrial policy, policy evaluation and regional economics.

I received my PhD in Economics from Durham University in 2024 (ESRC funded). Before joining Durham University Business School, I was a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews on an ESRC-funded project examining how constraints on access to finance and under-investment affect productivity growth in smaller firms.