WANG Yijiang

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Yijiang Wang 王一江

Phone：010-85188858*3290
Fax：010-85186800
E-mail：yjwang@ckgsb.edu.cn
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Associate Dean and Professor of Human Resource Management and Economics at Cheung Kong GSB
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Organization Theory, Economics and Human Resource Management, Chinese Economy, Money and Public Finance

Introduction

Wang Yijiang is Professor of Economics and Human Resource Management at Cheung Kong GSB, and is also Associate Dean with responsibility for academics.

Before joining Cheung Kong, Professor Wang taught at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

He is also a research fellow at the William Davidson Institute of Transition Economics at the University of Michigan and a senior fellow at the National Center of Economic Research, Tsinghua University. He serves as vice president of Chinese Economists Society of North America.

Achievements

International MBA 10th Anniversary Teaching Award, University of Hong Kong, 2008.

"The Nature of the Township and Village Enterprise," (with Chang, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1994), was selected as "the most influential piece ever written on the Chinese economy since reform" to be included in a volume in the Cambridge Series on Trade and Development.

"Human Capital Investment under Asymmetric Information: The Pigovian Conjecture Revisited" (with Chang, Journal of Labor Economics, 1996), is extensively reviewed by R. Gibbons (MIT) and M. Waldman (Cornell University) in the Handbook of Labor Economics.

Received McKnight research grants for most of the 1990s.

Received a series of graduate school research grants from the University of Minnesota.

Selected Publications

"Small and Medium-sized Firms Determine a Country's Future" (Economic Observer, October 20, 2007) was selected by journalists organized by Southern Weekend as one of the "Ten Best Commentaries of 2007 in China".

"Uncertainty in Labor Productivity and Specific Human Capital.", with Chongen Bai, Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 21(3), July, pp.651-675, 2003.

"The Ambiguity of Strike Replacement Legislation and Wages: A Sequential Investment-Bargaining Model." With J. Budd,Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 1999.

"The Myth of the East Asian Miracle: The Macroeconomic Implications of Soft Budgets." With C. Bai, American Economic Review, May, 1999.

Bureaucratic Control and Soft Budget Constraint." With C. Bai,Journal of Comparative Economics,26(1): 41-61, March 1998.

"Towards a Model of China as a Partially Reformed Developing Economy under a de facto Federalist Government." With C. Chang,China Economic Review, Vol. 9, Num. 1, 1998:1-23.

"Some Empirical Implications of a Model of Human Capital Investment under Asymmetric Information." With C. Chang,Research in Labor Economics, 1997, Vol. 16, pp.103-117..

"Enterprise Productivity and Performance: When Is Up Really Down?" With C. Bai and D. Li, Journal of Comparative Economics, 24(1997):265-80.

"Human Capital Investment and Labor Turnover under Asymmetric Information: The Pigovian Conjecture Revisited." With C. Chang,Journal of Labor Economics,14(1996):505-519.

"A Framework for Understanding Differences in Employment Stability and Human Capital Investment." With C. Chang,Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,28(1995):91-105.

"Firm's Information-Sharing Policy and Strike Incidence." Economics Letters, 48(1995):73-76.

"The Nature of the Township and Village Enterprise." With C. Chang,Journal of Comparative Economics,19(1994):434-452.

"When Privatization Should be Delayed: Organizational and Institutional Legacies of Communism and the Strategy of Transition." With P. Murrell,Journal of Comparative Economics,17(1993):385-406.

"Eastern Europe and China: Institutional Development as a Resource Allocation Problem." China Economic Review,4(1993):37-47.

"Optimal Liquidation Rule and Debt in the Principal-Agent Model." With C. Chang,Economics Letters, 40(1992):23-26.

"Economic Reform, Fixed Capital Investment Expansion, and Inflation: A Behavioral Model Based on the Chinese Experience."China Economic Review,2(1991):3-27.

Published Case Studies

"Blizzard v. bnetd.org: Managing Intellectual Property" (supervised Pamela Yatsko). Stanford GSB Case #SM-154 (A) and (B), 2007. Available through Harvard Business School Publishing.

"ezboard: Making Customers Pay" (supervised Pamela Yatsko). Stanford GSB Case #SM-142, 2005.

"The Long Battle for an Instant Messaging Standard" (supervised Steven Fan). Stanford GSB Case #SM-138, 2005. Available through Harvard Business School Publishing.

"Netflix: Opening or Closing Credits in Online Movie Distribution?" (supervised Jessica Phillips Patrick). Stanford GSB Case #SM-131, 2004.

"Tata Consultancy Services: Globalization of Software Services" (with Sanjeev Dheer and John Roberts). Stanford GSB Case #S-SM-18, 1993. Available through Harvard Business School Publishing.

"EDS: Information Technology Outsourcing" (with Sanjeev Dheer and Garth Saloner). Stanford GSB Case #S-SM-3, 1992. Reprinted in Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Robert A. Burgelman, Modesto A. Maidique and Steven C. Wheelwright, Irwin, 2nd edition, 1996.

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