Profile
Dr. Qing Gong Yang possesses nearly three decades of extensive experience in economic research and advisory roles across academic, governmental, and private sectors spanning various countries including New Zealand, the United Kingdom, China, and numerous others across Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean.
His Areas of Expertise: Applied econometrics, and Micro-simulation, Applied Industrial Organization and Industrial Economics, Competition and Regulatory Economics, Consumer and Household Behaviour, Economic Growth and Economic Development, Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Energy Economics, Management Practice, R&D, and Innovation, and Business Performance, M&E and Program Evaluation, Statistics and Quantitative Methods.
Dr. Yang's professional journey began as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at Cambridge University, UK, before transitioning to work in the New Zealand economic landscape in 2005. He also holds the designation of Certified Senior Statistician, having served in a provincial Bureau of Statistics in China.
Education
PhD in Economics from the University of Surrey, UK, 2004. PhD Thesis: China's Industrial Transformation: Investigations into Enterprise, Competition, and Performance.
Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics, Xi'an Statistics Institute, China, 1993
BSc in Computer Science, University of Liao Ning, China, 1990.
Publications
“Development Finance Assessment for Cook Islands”, Published by published by UNDP and the Government of Cook Islands, https://www.undp.org/samoa/publications/development-finance-assessment-cook-islands
“2017/18 Lesotho CMS/Household Budget Survey Report”, published by the Lesotho Government, https://www.bos.gov.ls/New%20FolderCopy%20of%20Economics/2017_18_Lesotho_CMS_HBS_Report.pdf
“Financing the SDGs in the Pacific Islands: Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Forward”, UNDP Discussion Paper,
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/poverty-reduction/financing-the-sdgs-in-the-pacific-islands--opportunities--challe.html
“Fiji Final MDG Report”, Government of Fiji,
“Fiji Development Finance Assessment Report”, Government of Fiji and UNDP
“Marshall Islands Development Finance Assessment Report”, published by UNDP, https://www.pacific.undp.org/content/pacific/en/home/library/DFA-Marshall-Islands.html
“Modeling the Duration of Merger Reviews in New Zealand”, with Michael Pickford, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2016,
http://jcle.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/23/joclec.nhv038.abstract
“The Merger Clearance Decision Process in New Zealand - Application of a New Two Stage Probit Model”, with Michael Pickford, 2014, Review of Industrial Organization, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11151-013-9404-x
“Impact of food prices on consumer demand: differences across income levels and ethnic groups in New Zealand”, with Cliona Ni Mhurchu et al., 2013, PLOS ONE, http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0075934
“Comparing Merger Enforcement Across Jurisdictions - New Zealand Versus The
European Union And The United States”, with Michael Pickford, 2013, New Zealand Economics Paper, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs 10.1080/00779954.2013.772877#.UbE8DJzQy8A;
“Reform and Competitive Selection in China: An Analysis of Firm Exits”, with Paul
Temple, September 2012, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 23 (3).
286-299,http://ideas.repec.org/p/sur/surrec/0409.html;
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X12000343
“Safe Harbours in Merger Guidelines: What Should They Be?”, with Michael Pickford, March 2011, Australian Economic Review, Vol. 44 (1), 13-35,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8462.2010.00617.x/full
“Quantitative Methods in Competition Cases: A New Zealand Perspective”, with David Law and Michael Pickford, Competition and Consumer Law Journal, (2010) 17 CCLJ 252,
“Exploring the Cross-Country Gap in Patenting: A Stochastic Frontier Approach”, with Xiaolan Fu, 2009, Research Policy, Vol. 38 (7), 1203-1213, http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/respol/v38y2009i7p1203-1213.html
“Lessons from Electricity Market Regulation Reform in New Zealand: Vertical Integration and Separation”, with Daisy Shen, 2012 , Chapter 6 in Energy Market Integration In East Asia II: The Electricity Sector, Edited By Yanrui Wu, Xunpeng Shi, Fukunari Kimura, http://www.eria.org/Chapter%206-
Electricity%20Market%20Regulatory%20Reform%20and%20Competition-
Case%20Study%20of%20the%20New%20Zealand%20Electricity%20Market.pdf
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Renewable Energy Integration in a Liberalized Electricity Market: A New Zealand Case Study", in Kimura, S., H. Phoumin and B. Jacobs (eds.), Energy Market Integration in East Asia: Renewable Energy and its Deployment into the Power System, ERIA Research Project Report 2012-26, Jakarta: ERIA. pp. 99-129, http://www.eria.org/RPR_FY2012_No.26_chapter_3.pdf
“Entry, Exit, and The Role of The Small Firms in China’s Industrial Transformation”, with Paul Temple, 2001, in Katrak and Strange ed. Small-Scale Enterprises in Developing and Transitional Economies, Palgrave Publishers Limited.
“Book Review: The Russia Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy”, Progress in Development Studies, 2004, 4: 369-370