Yingyi Qian
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California,
Berkeley
Yingyi Qian was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1981 with a B.S. in Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1990, after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, he taught in the Department of Economics at Stanford University between 1990 and 1999 and in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland between 1999 and 2001.
He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University during the 1994-95 academic year. 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.
His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, development economics, economics of transition, and the Chinese economy. He has published many papers in top economics journals, and his recent publications include: “The Return to Capital in China” (with Chong-En Bai and Chang-Tai Hsieh), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2006; “Coordination and Experimentation in M-form and U-form Organizations” (with Gérard Roland and Chenggang Xu), Journal of Political Economy, 2006; “Regional Decentralization and Fiscal Incentives: Federalism, Chinese Style” (with Hehui Jin and Barry Weingast), Journal of Public Economics, 2005; “How Reform Worked in China,” in Dani Rodrik (ed.) In Search of Prosperity, 2003; “The Institutional Foundations of China's Market Transition,” in Boris Pleskovic and Joseph Stiglitz (eds.) Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2000; “Reform without Losers: An Interpretation of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition” (with Lawrence Lau and Gérard Roland), Journal of Political Economy, 2000; “Federalism and the Soft Budget Constraint” (with Gérard Roland), American Economic Review, 1998; “Public vs. Private Ownership of Firms: Evidence from Rural China” (with Hehui Jin), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998; “Insecure Property Rights and Government Ownership of Firms” (with Jiahua Che), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998.
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