Yao Li @SSRN @NBER @IDEAS @EconPapers
@VoxEU @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
• Economic Development, Public Policy, Emerging Economies
• Agglomeration, Economic Geography

TEACHING FIELDS

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

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" NBER Working Paper No. 13849 (under
  review)
• “Innovation and Technology Transfer Policies in the South,” with Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley, forthcoming as CIGI Working Paper

WORKING EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellow, 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 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(Scheduled)
• 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 (presenter)
  
  

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.