Yanhao Wang

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I am an Assistant Professor of Business Economics at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. I received my Ph.D. from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. I work on topics in health care, household finance, and industrial organization.

Selected Working Projects

• Does Physicians’ Financial Health Affect Medical Treatment and Patient Outcomes?
  revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
• Race-Specific Provider Performance: Evidence from Black Lives Matter Protests
  with Haizhen Lin and Jia Xiang (this draft: Dec 2025)
• Agreeing to Disagree: Political Partisanship and Team Performance in Healthcare
  with Haizhen Lin and Jia Xiang (draft available upon request)

Publications

• The Value of Group Purchasing: Evidence from the U.S. Hospital Industry
  with Haizhen Lin, Journal of Public Economics (2025)
• Competition and Countervailing Power: Evidence from China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines Merger
  with Chun-Yu Ho and Patrick McCarthy, Journal of Air Transport Management (2021)
• Decomposing Sources of Gain from Airline Mergers: A Model and Case Study from China
  with Chun-Yu Ho and Patrick McCarthy, Research in Transportation Economics (2020)