Yanfei Wang

Yanfei Wang is an associate professor at Business School of Renmin University of China. She obtained her Ph.D degree in Economics at Boston University in May 2013. Her research field is Empirical Industrial Organization.

Education

• 2008-2013 PhD in Economics, Boston University
• 2008-2011 MA in Political Economy, Boston University
• 2004-2008 BA in Economics, BS in Mathematics, Wuhan University, China

Work Experience

• 2019.5- present Business School, Renmin University of China
• 2013.9-2019.4 Capital University of Economics and Business, China
• 2017.11 School of Business, New York University Shanghai ( Visiting Scholar)
• 2015.7-8 Department of Economics, Boston University ( Visiting Scholar)

Research Interests

Empirical Industrial Organization

Courses

Advanced Econometrics, literature Review on Industrial Economics, Industrial Organization and Antitrust

Publication:

• Competition and multilevel technology adoption: a dynamic analysis of Electronic Medical Records adoption in U.S. hospitals. International Economic Review, 63(3), 2022, pp. 1357-1395.
• Labor quality, and FDI inflows: a new non-­linear approach, with Lei Hou, Qi Li, and Xintong Yang, Economic Modelling, 102, 2021.
• Comparison between uniform tariff and progressive consumption tax in the Chinese automobile industry, with Caixia Shen, Junji Xiao, and Xiaolan Zhou, Journal of Industrial Economics, 69, 2021, pp.169-213.
• Differentiation strategies in the adoption of environmental standards: LEED from 2000 to 2014, with Marc Rysman and Timothy Simcoe. Management Science, 66(9), 2020, pp. 4173-4192.
• Gradient-based bandwidth selection for estimating average derivatives, with Cong Li. Economics Letters, 140, 2016, pp.19–22.