Law and Management

School of Business

Staff Profile

Prof Xiangkang Yin Title: Professor of Economics and Finance Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 433 Tel: +61 3 9479 2312 Email: x.yin@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

BSc Fudan, MEng Shanghai Jiaotong, PhD Shanghai Jiaotong

Dr Xiangkang Yin received his PhD degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) in 1989. In the following three years, he held a position as a lecture and later as an associate professor at SJTU and devoted his research to the control and optimisation of economic systems. He moved to Université Louis Pasteur in 1992 and to Monash University in 1994, focusing on the research of innovation theory, the Chinese economy and micro-macroeconomic analysis. He was appointed to La Trobe University as a lecturer in 1995 and to the Professor of Economics and Finance in 2006.

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Teaching

• Corporate Finance
• Statistics for Business and Finance
• Debt Securities

Research Interests

Corporate finance and governance, Financial markets, Industrial organisation, Pricing Strategy

C. Chloe and X. Yin, accepted, “Diversification Discount, Information Rents, and Internal Capital Markets”, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

S. Co wan and X. Yin, 2008, “Competition Can Hurt Consumers”, Australian Economic Papers, volt. 47, no.3, 264−271.

X. Yin, 2008, “Going-Public vs. Private Sales: A Two-Tiered Agency Approach”, International Review of Financial Analysis, vol.17, no.3, 523-538.

C. Chloe and X. Yin, 2006, “Should Executive Stock Options Be Abandoned?”, Australian Journal of Management (lead paper, runner-up of 2006 E. Yet ton Best Paper Award), vol.31, no. 2, 163-179.

V. Mongol and X. Yin, 2006, “Does the Introduction of Competition Improve Cost Efficiency? The Case of a State-Owned Telecommunication Company”, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, vol.11, no.3, 355-369.

V. Mongol, and X. Yin, 2005, “How Does the Entry of New Firms Change Demand? An Empirical Estimation for a Thai Telecommunications Company”, Journal of Asian Economics, vol.16, no.4, 688−703.

X. Yin, 2005, “A Comparison of Centralized and Fragmented Markets with Costly Search”, Journal of Finance, vol.60, no.3, 1567-1590.

X. Yin and X. Yin, 2005, “Can Developing Countries Benefit from Strategic Export Promotion?”, Journal of Economic Studies, vol.32, no.1, 60-80.

D. Prentice and X. Yin, 2004, “Constructing a Quality-Adjusted Price Index for a Heterogeneous Oligopoly”, The Manchester School (lead paper), vol.72, no.4, 423-442.

X. Yin, 2004, “Two-Part Tariff Competition in Duo poly”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol.22, no.6, 799-820. vol.42, no.4, 373-385.

X. Yin, 2003, “Corrective Taxes under Oligopoly with Inter-Firm Externalities”, Environmental and Resources Economics, vol.26, no.2, 269-277.

X. Yin, 2001, “A Dynamic Analysis of Overstaff in China’s State-Owned Enterprises”, Journal of Development Economics, vol.66, no.1, 87-99.

X. Yin and E. Muscovite, 2001, “Interaction of Drastic and Incremental Innovations: Economic Development through Chaptering Waves”, Economies Applause (lead paper), vol.54, no.2, 7-35.

X. Yin, 2001, “A Tractable Alternative to Cobb-Douglas Utility for Imperfect Competition”, Australian Economic Papers, vol.40, no.1, 14-21.

X. Yin, 2001, “A Model of Shareholder Discounts”, Economic Record, vol.77, no.236, 89-102.

C. Chloe and X. Yin, 2000, “Do China’s State-Own Enterprises Maximize Profits?”, Economic Record, vol.76, no.234, 273-284.

X. Yin and Y-K. Eng, 2000, “Quantity Recommitment and Bert rand Competition Yield Courant Outcomes: A Case with Product Differentiation: Reply”, Australian Economic Papers, vol.39, no.1, 113-119.

C. Chloe and X. Yin, 2000, “Contract Management Responsibility System and Profit Incentive in China’s State-Owned Enterprises”, China Economic Review, vol.11, no.1, 98-112.

X. Yin, 1999, “Asymmetric Research Joint Venture and Market Concentration”, Japanese Economic Review, vol.50, no.3, 309-320.

X. Yin and E. Muscovite, 1999, “Appropriation and Cooperation: Research Joint Ventures with Limitation of Technology Transferability”, Economies Applause, vol.52, no.2, 199-220.

X. Yin, 1999, “Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Structure”, Journal of Economic Studies, vol.26, no.1, 38-57.

X. Yin and E. Muscovite, 1998, “Is Firm Size Conducive to R&D? A Strategic Analysis of Product and Process Innovations”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, vol.35, no.2, 243-262.

X. Yin and E. Muscovite, 1998, “Economic Consequences of Limited Technology Transferability”, Australian Economic Papers, vol.37, no.1, 22-35.

X. Yin, 1998, “The Macroeconomic Effects of Waiting Workers in the Chinese Economy”, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol.26, no.1, 150-164.

X. Yin, 1998, “Technology Strategy and Product Diversity”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol.7, no.2, 159-175.

X. Yin and Y-K. Eng, 1997, “Quantity Recommitment and Bert rand Competition Yield Courant Outcomes: A Case with Product Differentiation”, Australian Economic Papers, vol.36, no.68, 14-22.

X. Yin, 1997, “A Micro-Macroeconomic Analysis of the Chinese Economy with Imperfect Competition”, China Economic Review, vol.8, no.1, 31-51.

X. Yin, 1992, “Demand and Shortage of Durable Consumer Goods in Socialist Countries”, Applied Economics, vol.24, no.2, 219-225.

X. Yin and B. Sheen, 1987, “Some Aspects of Accelerated Life Testing by Progressive Stress”, IEEE Transaction on Reliability, vol.R-36, no.1, 150-155.