I attended the CEEE meeting in Toronto, and the AEA/ASSA meeting in Atlanta.

Yao Li @SSRN @NBER @IDEAS @EconPapers
@Vox @Academia

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. , Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2010(expected).
• M.A. in Economics, Peking University, 2003.
• B.A. in Economics, Peking University, 2001.

RESEARCH FIELDS

• International Trade, International Macroeconomics
• Economic Development, Applied Economics
• Public Policy

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Empirical Trade, Technology Diffusion, Innovation
• Development, Welfare, Growth, Emerging Economies
• Agglomeration, Economic Geography
• Public Policy, Climate Change, Sustainability

TEACHING FIELDS

• Graduate: International Trade, International Finance, Macroeconomics, Development
• Undergraduate: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, International Business, Chinese Economy, Development

WORKING PAPERS

• "International Trade, Technology Diffusion, and the Role of Diffusion Barriers” (Job Market Paper)
• "Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers: Dying over Time or Dying with Age? -Evidence from Patent Citations," CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2625
• "The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications," with John Whalley, Shunming Zhang, and Xiliang Zhao. The World Economy, revise and resubmit 2010. Earlier version available as NBER Working Paper No. 13849, March 2008.
• “Innovation and Technology Transfer Policies in China, India, and Brazil,” with Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley, forthcoming as CIGI Working Paper (under review)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellow (full-time), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Repulic of China (previously, Ministry of Information Industry), China Center of Information Industry Development, Planning Research Institute, 2003-2005.
• Research Assistant (part-time) for Professor John Whalley, 2007-present.

REFERENCES

• Professor John Whalley (Co-Chair)
  Department of Economics
  The University of Western Ontario
  London, ON N6A 5C2 Canada
  Phone: + 1 519 661-3509
  Email: jwhalley@uwo.ca
• Professor James C. MacGee (Co-Chair)
  Department of Economics
  The University of Western Ontario
  London, ON N6A 5C2 Canada
  Phone: + 1 519 661-2111 ext.85207
  EMail: jmacgee@uwo.ca
• Professor Hiroyuki Kasahara
  Department of Economics
  The University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
  Email: hkasahar@gmail.com

CONFERERENCE PRESENTATIONS

International Trade, Technology Diffusion, and the Role of Diffusion Barriers

• Midwest International Economics Conference (PSU), State College, U.S., October 2009
• Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting (UT), Toronto, Canada, May 2009
  
• The 22nd Annual Western Research Forum (UWO), London, Canada, February 2009

Borders and Distance in Knowledge Flows: Dying over Time or Dying with Age - Evidence from Patent Citations

• AEA/ASSA Annual Meetings, Atlanta, U.S., January 2010
• Midwest International Economics Conference (OSU), Columbus, U.S., October 2008
• Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting (UBC), June 2008
• CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy (University of Munich), Munich, Germany, January 2008
• China National International Trade Conference (Xiamen University), Xiamen, China, October 2007
• Applied Econometrics Association Conference on Patent and Innovation (Hitotsub-ashi University), Tokyo, Japan, December 2008
  

The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications

• The Emergence of China and India in the Global Economy (LSE), London, UK, July 2008
• CIGI 08, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada, October 2008 (presenter and panelist)
• China Research Days (UWO), London, Canada, April 2008 Conference
  
  

CONFERENCE DISCUSSANT AND PARTICIPATIONS

• Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting (UBC), June 2008
  -Discussant in the session: International Economic Issues: China and Japan; -Discussant in the session: Productivity, Innovation and Trade
• Small Open Economies in a Globalized World (WLU), Waterloo, Canada, June 2008.
• The Changing Global Economy (CIGI/UWO Research Workshop), UWO, April 2008.