Regular biography
Yanyou Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. She holds a Ph.D. (Duke, 2020), M.A. (Duke, 2014), and B.A. (The University of Hong Kong, 2012). Her research focuses on industrial organization, with a particular emphasis on structural empirical models of R&D, firm heterogeneity, and industry evolution. She has published in the Journal of Industrial Economics, including a paper co-authored with Daniel Yi Xu. Chen teaches courses such as Industrial Organization I and Markets, Competition, and Strategy.
Scholar-generated biography
Yanyou Chen is an academic specializing in Empirical Industrial Organization, with a focus on understanding market dynamics through empirical analysis. Their research explores topics such as economic incentives in fisheries, market design for water quality trading, and the impact of network structure on merger efficiency. Chen's work also examines platform economics, including information provision, consumer search behavior, and algorithmic wage-setting in ride-hailing platforms. Their studies often integrate structural models to analyze firm heterogeneity and industry evolution. Through field experiments and data-driven analysis, Chen contributes to understanding how market mechanisms influence economic outcomes.