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Professor Wang joined the NPSIA faculty in July 2003 as Assistant Professor of International Affairs after obtaining her PhD in Economics at Georgetown University. She worked at the World Bank as a consultant from 2001 to 2003 while being a PhD candidate, and as a researcher in the State Economic & Trade Commission, P.R. China from 1995 to 1997, after obtaining her MA in Economics from Renmin University of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Carleton, she was tenured in 2007, promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, and to Full Professor in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She served as NPSIA\u2019s Associate Director (PhD Program) from 2019 to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She currently serves as Associate Dean, Equity and Inclusion, at the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs (FPGA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Wang also served as President for Canadian Women Economists Network (CWEN) (2008\u20142009), President for the Chinese Economists Society (CES) (2010\u20142011), the Chair of Regent for the Chinese Economists Society (2012), and an executive committee member for Canadian Women Economists Committee (CWEC) (2018-2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall Research Focus\/Expertise<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Professor Wang\u2019s research focuses on empirical analyses of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) at both the macro and micro levels. Her work spans a wide range of topics within these two areas.
Her PhD dissertation examined the effects of imports from developed countries on productivity in developing countries, arguing that imports embed the technologies of the producing countries.
Using Canadian plant-level data, she has analyzed various effects of FDI on manufacturing plants, from productivity to survival, with particular attention to FDI\u2019s overall impacts\u2014within-industry effects as well as upstream and downstream linkages.
Since 2013, Professor Wang has also studied the expansion of Chinese firms in international trade and the effects of FDI in China, with a focus on ownership structures\u2014state-owned, privately-owned, and foreign-owned firms. In particular, she has investigated how China\u2019s policy changes and evolving operating environment have influenced foreign investors\u2019 consolidation of equity shares in joint ventures.
Her findings have been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Review of International Economics, China Economic Review, Journal of Development Studies, Contemporary Economic Policy, and the International Journal of the Economics of Business, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Projects<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Professor Wang currently is working on two projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She examines whether and how Canadian firms have been utilizing Canada\u2019s free trade agreements in forming their global value chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using World Bank\u2019s Business Climate Survey for China, she studies Chinese firms\u2019 trade dynamics amid global protectionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • \u201cService sector liberalization and firms\u2019 carbon emission intensity reduction: Evidence from China\u201d (with Jiaxuan Gao and Hongjun Xie), 99 (2025) Article #101956. Journal of Asian Economics. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.asieco.2025.101956<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cNorth-South Trade-related Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap\u201d (with Maurice Schiff), 22(3-4): 348-358, 2023. World Trade Review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cChinese Firms\u2019 Export Dynamics: Experimental but Promising\u201d (with Wei Wei), 12:1: 10-23, 2020. Transnational Economic Review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cA Push Over Trade Barriers: Firms\u2019 Access to External Finance and Their Sales Hierarchy\u201d (with Ninghua Ye), 52(6): 464-487, 2019. The Chinese Economy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFrom Honeymoon to Divorce: Institution Quality and Foreign Investors\u2019 Ownership Consolidation in China\u201d (with Qun Bao and Hongjun Xie). 57(1): 372-390, 2019. Economic Inquiry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Willing to support students in the following areas of research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Professor Wang will be happy to support students in their research to examine empirical issues of international trade and FDI, particularly with a strong econometric foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":1495,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Yanling","cu_people_last_name":"Wang","cu_people_initials":"YW","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[23],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-397","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Dean, Equity Diversity and Inclusion; Full Professor","cu_people_degree":"PhD in Economics, Georgetown University; MA in Economics, Georgetown University and Renmin University of China; BA in Economics, Renmin University of China","cu_building":"LA","cu_people_office_num":"D387A","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"Dr.","cu_people_email":"yanling.wang@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2626","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/cu-people\/yanling-wang\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/397\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}