Welcome to my website!
I am an Assistant Professor in Business Economics at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta (starting July 2025). I received my Ph.D. from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. I work on topics in health economics, household finance, and industrial organization.
Email: yanhao.wang [at] ualberta.ca
Working papers
- Does Physician Financial Health Affect Medical Treatment
and Patient Outcomes?
constantly revised, please email for the most updated draft. - Race-Specific Provider Performance: Evidence from Black
Lives Matter Protests
with Haizhen Lin and Jia Xiang.
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).