Tongyang Yang, PhD

Affiliated Programs

• Business Analytics (BSBA)
• Economics (BSBA)

Education

• PhD, Economics (2021)
  Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
• MS, Agricultural and Applied Economics (2015)
  University of Georgia (GA)
• BA, International Economics and Trade (2013)
  Heilongjiang University (CN)

About Me

I received my Ph.D. degree in economics from Georgia Institute of Technology, where I obtained “Tech to Teaching” certificate. I have been working with the Center for Teaching and Learning as a graduate teaching fellow for two years, and served as a leadership coach for Leadership Education and Development.

My research interests include international trade-related topics such as the socio-economic impacts of trade liberalization and trade duration. I am also interested in interdisciplinary research that combines big data and economic analysis. My teaching interests include all levels of microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics, analytics, and econometrics.

Research Interests

• Applied Microeconomics
• International Trade
• Labor Economics

Publications

Afrouz J., Marius M., and Tongyang Y.,“Inflation and the U.S. Economy in 2022” JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL SERVICE PROFESSIONALS, Vol. 77 No. 1 

Besedeš, T., Lee, S. H., & Yang, T. “Trade liberalization and gender gaps in local labor market outcomes: Dimensions of adjustment in the United States” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 183: 574–588.

Wei G., Ming J., and Tongyang Y., “Severe weather and peer-to-peer farmers’ loan default predictions: Evidence from machine learning analysis” Finance Research Letters, Volume 58, Part A, 2023, 104287, ISSN 1544-6123