Yiran Hao（郝翊然）

Email: yiranhao@xjtu.edu.cn

 

Employment

Assistant Professor, Jinhe Center for Economic Research, 2023-

 

Research Interest

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

 

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Toronto, Nov 2022

M.A. in Economics (Doctoral Stream), University of Toronto, Jun 2015

BSc(Hons) in Economics, minor in Mathematics & Statistics, University of Toronto, Jun 2014

 

 

Working Papers

Losing Market Dominance in a Growing Industry: BYD Company and Electric Vehicles in China (joint work with Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto) & Jasmine Hao (Hong Kong University)) (Job Market Paper)

 

A Comparison of Estimation Methods to Deal with Zero Market Shares in the Demand of Differentiated Products (joint work

with Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto))

 

Electric Vehicle Demand, Car Ownership and Environmental Policy in a Chinese city

 

Bundling Effect of Durable Goods’ Sequential Purchases in a Dynamic Game: Evidence Based on China Automobile Market

(joint work with Jasmine Hao (Hong Kong University)

 

Teaching Experience

 

Xi’an Jiaotong University

Industrial Organization, Spring 2023

 

University of Toronto

Instructor: Applied Game Theory, Summer 2019

TA: Empirical Industrial Organization, Quantitative Methods in Economics, Microeconomics Theory, etc.  2014-2021

 

Conferences & Seminars

China‑VIOS Seminar, Guangzhou, China. June, 2022

Econometric Society Summer School on Dynamic Structural Econometrics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, July, 2019

Quantitative Marketing and Structural Econometrics Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July, 2019

Asian Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Xiamen, China. June, 2019

Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Banff, Canada. May, 2019