Yingyi Qian

Professor

Fields: Comparative Economics; Economics of Organization and Institutions; Economics of Transition and Development; China's Economic Reform and Development

Research interests: Coordination in organizations; rule of law in transition economies; entrepreneurs in economic reform; China's reform and development; hierarchies; soft budget constraint; government ownership; fiscal federalism; dual-track liberalization

Yingyi Qian was born in Beijing and received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1990. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, he taught economics at Stanford University between 1990 and 1999 and at the University of Maryland between 1999 and 2001.

In 1994-95 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School, a Fellow of the Chinese Economists Society (USA), and a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development. He is Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition and on the boards of editors of China Economic Review and China Journal of Economics. He is an Independent Director of the boards of directors of China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Vimicro International Corporation.