RESEARCH AREAS

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics, Applied Microeconomics

EMPLOYMENT

Department of Economics, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Associate Professor, 2019/08-Present.

Assistant Professor, 2015/10-2019/07.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, U.S.A., 2016.

B.A. in Economics at Zhejiang University, China, 2009.

FELLOWSHIP AND AWARDS

2021 Third Prize for Industry Exploration, Payment Industry Research Team (Member), Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2018 Candlelight Teaching Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2017 Most Popular Teacher to Undergraduate Students Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2017 Best Undergraduate Course Team Award (Member), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2012 Kirk Dornbush Summer Research Grant, Vanderbilt University

PUBLICATIONS

[1] Hu, Yunyi, Haitao Yin, and Li Zhao. “Subsidy phase-out and consumer demand dynamics: Evidence from the battery electric vehicle market in China.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, online February 6, 2023.

[2] Hu, Yunyi, Haitao Yin, Li Zhao, and Xiaodi Luo. “How has Tesla's entry affected China's electric vehicle market?” Applied Economics Letters, online Oct 27, 2022.

[3] (In Chinese) Zhao, Li, Yanyi Liu, and Shaoqing Huang. “Government-Business Relation and Environmental Information Disclosure of Chinese Firms.” Study and Exploration, 2021(12), 139-147, 2021.

[4] (In Chinese) Huang, Shaoqing, Yi Wang, Li Zhao. “Administrative Examination and Approval Reform, Rule of Law, and Enterprises' Innovation Performance.” Academic Monthly, 2020(6) 57-70, 2020.

[5] Li, Tong, Jingfeng Lu, and Li Zhao. “Auctions with selective entry and risk averse bidders: theory and evidence.” The RAND Journal of Economics 46, no. 3 (2015): 524-545.

WORKING PAPERS

[1] A partial identification subnetwork approach to discrete games in large networks: An application to quantifying peer effects (with Tong Li).

[2] An empirical study of the mineral rights model: Application to U.S. OCS auctions.

[3] Can fixed effects models fix satellite data.

[4] Can informatization encourage Chinese farmers to go out of the local society? The role of the rule of law (with Shaoqing Huang and Chuanyong Zhang).

RESEARCH GRANTS

“Research on Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance and Self-Improvement as a Strategic Support for National Development” Co-Investigator, (RMB), National Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation of China, No. 22AZD036, 2022-2025.

“Heterogeneity in China’s Land Market: Evidence from Big Data,” Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 71903127, 2020-2022.

“Solving the "Solow Paradox": A Study on the Impact of Information Technology on the Productivity of Chinese Firms from the Perspective of Firm Organizational Complementarity,” Co-Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 71973096, 2019-2013.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Empirical Industrial Organization (Graduate) 

Spring 2017-2023

Industrial Organization Theory (Undergraduate, in English) 

Fall 2016-2022

Research Topic Selection and Dissertation Writing (Undergraduate, in Chinese and in English) 

Spring 2019-2022, Fall 2016-2018