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Biography
Jia Yan is a Professor of Economics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Irvine. Before joining Washington State University in 2007, he taught in Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Yan’s research covers Transportation Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics. He has published his papers in such journals as Econometrica, American Journal of Economics: Economics Policy, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Law and Economics, Transportation Research Part A and B, and Transportation Research Record. His Ph.D. dissertation won the dissertation award of the Transport and Public Utility Group of the American Economic Association in 2003. He also won the research excellence award of the Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006, the best paper award in Transportation Research Forum in 2009, and the best paper award of the International Transportation Economics Association in 2011. He has served the editorial board of Transportmetrica since 2007.