Full-time Professor

Xiyi Yang

Publish Time:2020-09-15

Xiyi Yang

Assistant Professor



Research Area

Economic Geography, Science and Innovation, Regional Development



Contact Information

yangxy@shanghaitech.edu.cn




Biography

Xiyi Yang is currently working as an assistant professor and Principal Investigate at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University. Prior to joining ShanghaiTech, she was an assistant professor at the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University. Xiyi received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hong Kong in 2015, and her Bechalor in International Shipping and Logistics from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011.


Research Interests

The intersection between geography and science. Xiyi is particularly interested in questions including: the degree of geographic concentration of science and innovation. What's the driving forces, and consequences?


Selected Publications

1. Haoyuan Ding, Yichuan Hu, Xiyi Yang, &Xiaoyu Zhou. 2021. Board Interlock and the Diffusion of Corporate Social Responsibility among Chinese Listed Firms. Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

2. David Andersson, Åke E. Andersson, Björn Hårsman, & Xiyi Yang. 2020. “The Geography of Science in 12 European Countries: A NUTS2-level Analysis.” Scientometrics 124: 1099-1125.

3. Di Guo, Kun Jiang, Chenggang Xu & Xiyi Yang. 2020. “Industrial Clustering, Growth and Inequality in China.” Journal of Economic Geography 20(5): 1207-1239.

4. Yang, Xiyi & David Emanuel Andersson. 2018. “Spatial Aspects of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.” Annals of Regional Science 61(3): 457-462. (Editorial.)

5. Chen, Qianqian, Min Lv, Yu Gu, Xiyi Yang, Zhiyong Tang, Yuhan Sun, & Mianheng Jiang. 2018. “Hybrid Energy System for a Coal-based Chemical Industry.” Joule 2(4): 607-620. (From Cell Press, IF=41.25.)


Working papers

1. Geographic Clustering and Resource Reallocation Across Firms in Chinese Industries (with Di Guo, Kun Jiang, and Chenggang Xu).

2. Industrial Clusters, Income and Inequality in Rural China (with Di Guo, Kun Jiang, and Chenggang Xu).

3. Heaven is High and the Emperor is Far Away: Information Asymmetry, State Inattention and Firm Implementation of State Environmental Policy (with Heli Wang and Xiaoyu Zhou)

4. Community Orientation and Organizational Compliance to State Mandates: Corporate Environmental Action in China (with Xiaoyu Zhou, Haoyuan Ding and Yichuan Hu).

5.  Property Rights, Government Expropriation and Incentives to Innovate (with Kevin Amess and Kun Jiang)