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Welcome to my website!

I am an assistant professor at the School of Economics at Fudan University starting in 2021 Fall. 

My research focuses on Macroeconomics. I chiefly combine micro-level data with structural models to study various topics about innovation, economic growth and Chinese economy. 

I received the P.h.D degree in economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021.

Email:  yiran_zhang@fudan.edu.cn; yiranzhangecon@gmail.com

 

 

CV  You can find my CV here.

WORKING PAPERS

Technology Market Frictions and Economic Development: Evidence from China

  • solo author

  • Reject & Resubmit at Review of Economic Dynamics​

Skill Acquisition and the Gains from Trade: A Cross-country Quantitative Analysis

  • with Xiao Ma and Alejandro Nakab

  • Revise & Resubmit at International Economic Review

How do Multinational Firms Impact China's Technology? The Role of Quid Pro Quo Policy and Technology Spillovers

  • with Xiao Ma


Improving Regulation for Innovation: Evidence from China's Pharmaceutical Industry

  • with Ruixue Jia, Xiao Ma and Jianan Yang 

  • NBER Working Paper 31976

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Measuring Global Technology Creation and Diffusion by New Words

  • with Hanming Fang, Zheng (Michael) Song and Hanyi Tao

The Impact of the Trade War: Divergence in Chinese and U.S. Innovations in the Post-Conflict Era

  • with Xiao Ma, Yueyuan Ma and Hanyi Tao

PUBLICATIONS

In English:

Superstitions, Street Traffic, and Subjective Well-being (with Michael L. Anderson, Fangwen Lu, Jun Yang and Ping Qin), Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142: 1-10.

In Chinese:

Do Institutions Mitigate the Negative Effect of Social Con ict on Enterprises' Risk-taking? (with Ruilong Yang and Jidong Yang), Economic Research Journal (经济研究), 2017, 8:140-154. (corresponding author)

Political Identity and Income Gap (with Jidong Yang), World Economic Papers (世界经济文汇), 2016, 4: 54-79.

Using Happiness Surveys to Value Air Pollution (with Jidong Yang), The Journal of World Economy (世界经济), 2014, 12:162-188.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

As instructor at Fudan University:

  • Macroeconomics               2021,2022,2023,2024

  • Industrial Economics       2022,2023,2024

  • Applied Economics           2022,2023,2014

As teacher assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong:

  • Basic Macroeconomics                     2017, 2019

  • A Guide to Learning Economics     2018

 

As teacher assistant at Renmin University of China:

  • Introductory Econometrics        2013, 2015    

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