Project Description

Yibai YANG

Full-time Staff

Title Associate Professor of Economics
Office Room 3033, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
University of Macau, E21B
Avenida da Universidade,Taipa, Macau, China
Telephone +(853) 88228917
Fax +(853) 88222339
E-mail yibaiyang@um.edu.mo
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Research Area

  • Economic Growth
  • Innovation
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Monetary and Fiscal Policies

Courses Taught

  • ECON1002     Mathematics I
  • ECON1003     Mathematics II
  • ECON7760     Methods for Economic Research

Selected Publications

  • Klein, M. and Yang, Y. (2025) Innovation, Technology Transfer and the International Regulation of Patents and Trade Secrets, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 236: 107090
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107090
  • Song, W. and Yang, Y. (2024) Monetary Policy in a Schumpeterian Economy with Endogenous Fertility and Human Capital Accumulation, Journal of Macroeconomics, 80: 103601
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2024.103601
  • Klein, M. and Yang, Y. (2024) Blocking Patents, Rent Protection and Economic Growth, Review of Economic Dynamics, 52: pp. 1-20
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2023.11.003
  • Chang, J.-J., Huang, C.-Y., Wong, C. Y. and Yang, Y. (2023) Environmental Regulation Stringency and Allocation between R&D and Physical Capital: A Two-Engine Growth Model. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 216: pp. 733-753
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.10.030
  • Hu, R., Yang, Y. and Zheng, Z. (2023) Effects of Subsidies on Growth and Welfare in a Quality-Ladder Model with Elastic Labor. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 25(5): pp. 1096-1137
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12645
  • Huang, C.-Y., Wu, Y., Yang, Y. and Zheng, Z. (2023) Monetary Policy in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Two R&D Sectors. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 55(6): pp. 1569-1607
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12929
  • Hu, R., Yang, Y. and Zheng, Z. (2021) Inflation, Endogenous Quality Increment, and Economic Growth. Mathematical Social Sciences, 114, pp. 72 – 86
    DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2021.10.001
  • Zheng, Z., Huang, C-Y. and Yang, Y. (2021) Inflation and Growth: A Non-Monotonic Relationship in an Innovation-Driven Economy. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 25(5), pp.1199-1226.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100519000622
  • Yang, Y. (2021) Welfare Effects of Patent Protection in a Growth Model with R&D and Capital Accumulation. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 25 (2), pp. 579 – 602.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100519000233
  • Yang, Y. and Liu, Y. (2021) Tax Burden, R&D Subsidies and Innovation-Driven Long-Term Economic Growth. Economic Research Journal, pp. 40 -57
  • Zheng, Z., Huang, C-Y. and Yang, Y. (2020) Patent Protection, Innovation, and Technology Transfer in a Schumpeterian Economy. European Economic Review, 129, 103531.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103531
  • Zheng, Z., Mishra, T. and Yang, Y. (2020) Inflation and Income Inequality in a Variety-Expansion Growth Model with Menu Costs. Economics Letters, 194, 109373.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109373
  • Yang,Y. (2018) On the Optimality of IPR Protection with Blocking Patents. Review of Economic Dynamics, 27, 205-230.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2017.07.002