dongmin yao

Dongmin Yao, Ph.D.

  • Visiting Scholar
616 Serra StreetEncina Hall E301Stanford, CA94305-6055

Biography

Dongmin Yao joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) during the 2017-2018 academic year from Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing, China) where he serves as an associate professor.

His research interests encompass Basic theories of public finance; State governance and government behavior; Game theory; Micro Econometrics and organizational economics. During his time at Shorenstein APARC, Yao will participate in a study of modes of governance in Chinese bureaucracy.

Yao has led several national research projects including Projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Nation Science Foundation Project. Besides, Yao serves as an editor of many top academic journals in China and contributed articles regularly to these publications. Yao has also won a lot of significant awards, like Wu yuzhang Humanities Social Science Award (one of the highest awards in the field of humanism social science in China and Yao is the youngest recipient of it), The Second Prize of the 6th National Excellent Public Finance Research Achievement (by Chinese Public Finance Society) and The Third Prize of the 7th Excellent Achievement in Scientific Research (Social Science) of College (by China’s Ministry of Education).  

Yao holds a PhD in game theory from Renmin University of China. He received his MA in mathematical finance and BA in international economics and trade, both from Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.