Yao Tang

Assistant Professor of Economics

On leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year.

Phone 2077984260
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)

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

Working papers

How did the exchange rate affect employment in US cities? (with H. Huang), 2013

The Effects of Corporate Governance on the Innovation Performance of Chinese SMEs (with D. Shapiro, M. Wang, and W. Zhang), 2013

Vertical Trade, Exchange Rate Pass-Through, and Exchange Rate Regime (with K. Pang), 2012  

Exchange Rate Regimes, Trade, and the Wage Comovements (with Y. Kurokawa and J. Pang), 2011 

Does Productivity Respond to Exchange Rate Appreciations? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation, 2010

Publications in refereed journals

Comparison of Misspecified Calibrated Models: The Minimum Distance Approach (with V. Hnatkovska and V. Marmer), Journal of Econometrics, Volume 169, Issue 1, 131-138, Elsevier.

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

Business Group Performance In China: Ownership and Temporal Considerations (with M. Carney and D. 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 D. Shapiro and C. X. 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 S. Globerman and D. 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.