Yao Tang

Assistant Professor of Economics

Phone 798-4260
Title Assistant Professor
Department Economics
Work Location 106 Hubbard Hall
E-Mail ytang@bowdoin.edu

Spring 2012

  • Topics on Asian Economies (ASIAN 231)
  • Principles of Macroeconomics (ECON 102B)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Economics (ECON 402)

Office hours: T 3:30-5:00 pm, Th 2:30-4:00 pm, or by appointment.

Yao's personal page

Education

Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Canada, 2009
M.A., Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2003
B.A., Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, China, 1998

Research and Teaching Fields

Macroeconomics, international economics, business economics, and the Chinese economy

Publications in refereed journals

Comparison of Misspecified Calibrated Models: The Minimum Distance Approach (with Viktoria Hnatkovska and Vadim Marmer), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle Between 2000 and 2009 (with Haifang Huang), 2012, Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 71, Issue 1, pages 93-99, Elsevier.

Business Group Performance In China: Ownership and Temporal Considerations (with Michael Carney and Daniel Shapiro), 2009. Management and Organization Review, Volume 5, Issue 2, pages 167-193, Wiley-Blackwell.

Mode of Entry and the Regional Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in China (with Daniel Shapiro and Cathy Xuejing Ma), 2007. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Volume 5, Issue 3, pages 261 - 277, Routledge.

Book chapter

Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging and Transition European Countries (with Steven Globerman and Daniel Shapiro), 2006. International Finance Review book series (ed. J.A. Batten et. al.), Volume 6, pages 439 - 468, Elsevier.

Short note

Dropping the Geographic-Constraints Variable Makes Only a Minor Difference: Reply to Cox (with Haifang Huang), 2011, Econ Journal Watch, Volume 8, Issue 1, page 28-32, American Institute for Economic Research.