Jia Yan (CV)

EDUCATION

• PhD, Economics. University of California, Irvine, 2002
• MA, Economics, Nankai University, 1997
• BA, Finance, Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics, 1993

FIELDS OF INTEREST

• Applied Microeconomics, Transportation Economics and Empirical Industrial Organization 
• Applied Econometrics

EMPLOYMENT

• 08/2013-, Associate Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University
• 07/2007-08/2013, Assistant Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University
• 2004-2007, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 2002-2004, Research Scientist, ChoiceStream, Inc., Cambridge, MA

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS

• Econometrics (Ph.D.)
• Mathematics for Economists (Ph.D.) 

AWARDS

• Best Paper by a Senior Author (joint with Clifford Winston), Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics, 2011.
• Best Paper Award (joint with Tae Oum and Chunyan Yu), Transportation Research Forum, 2009
• Silver Medal (Harmful Algae Indexing (HaiDex) System, with John Liu, Samuel Lo, K.C. Ho, and T. L. Yip), International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products in Geneva, 2008.
• Annual Research Award, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2006
• Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Transportation and Public Utility Group of American Economic Association, 2003

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (MY GOOGLE SCHOLAR PAGE)

•  An Analysis of Travel Demand in Japan’s Inter-city Market: Empirical Estimation and Policy Simulation, with Xiaowen Fu and Tae Oum, forthcoming in the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
• Book Review for  A Handbook of Transport Economics, edited by André De Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet, and Roger Vickerman, Journal of Regional Science, Dec. 2012.
• Can Privatization of U.S. Highways Improve Motorists’ Welfare?, (Technical Appendix) with Clifford Winston,  Journal of Public Economics, August (95), pp. 993-1005,  2011. 
• Assessing Container Operator Efficiency with Heterogeneous and Time-Varying Production Frontiers, with Xinyu Sun and John Liu, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, January (43), pp. 172-185, 2009.
• Ownership Forms Matter for Airport Efficiency:  A Stochastic Frontier Investigation of Worldwide Airports, (Technical Appendix) with Tae Oum and Chunyan Yu, Journal of Urban Economics, September (64), pp. 422-435, 2008.
• Threshold Control of Mutual Insurance with Limited Commitment, with Kevin Li and John Liu, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, August (43), pp. 108-115, 2008.
• Differentiated Pricing, Express Lanes, and Carpools: Exploiting Heterogeneous Preferences in Policy Design, with Kenneth A. Small and Clifford Winston, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Vol. 7, pp. 53 – 96, 2006.
• Uncovering the Distribution of Motorists’ Preferences for Travel Time and Reliability, (Technical Appendix) with Kenneth A. Small and Clifford Winston, Econometrica, 73(4), pp. 1367 – 1382, 2005 (Reprinted in: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Compendium on Congestion: Issues and Analyses Across Modes (Washington, DC: 2007)) 
• The Value of Value Pricing on Roads: Second-Best Pricing and Product Differentiation, with Kenneth A. Small, Journal of Urban Economics, March (49), pp. 310-336, 2001

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

• The Effects of Government Quality and Institutional Choice on the Efficiency of U.S. Commercial Airports, with Tae Oum, Jan. 2013, revised and resubmitted at the Journal of Urban Economics

• Designing a Privatized Market: The Case of San Francisco Bay Area Airports,  (Technical Appendix) with Clifford Winston, Dec. 2012, Under Review

• Open Skies: Estimating Travelers' Benefits Form Free Trade in Airline Services, with Clifford Winston, Mar. 2013, Under Review