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Welcome! I am Long Endowed assistant professor of political economy at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
My research lies at the intersection of political economy, economic history, and comparative politics, with a regional focus on China. My current project examines long-run development and the evolution of political institutions, employing multiple methods such as causal identification, game theory, and comparative historical analysis. My work has been published or is forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Marketing Research, among others. My book with Erik Wang, The Political Economy of China’s Imperial Examination System, is published with Cambridge University Press. My new book with Yasheng Huang, A Great Political Divergence: Europe and China from 500 BCE to 1800 CE, is under contract with Yale University Press.
Some of my work also touches on contemporary issues of business and politics. I am a research affiliate of the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, and my work has been reported by Scientific American and the New York Times.
I have a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University. Before joining the University of Washington, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Academic Position:
Long Endowed Assistant Professor,
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies,
University of Washington, Seattle
Affiliations:
Research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland
Non-resident scholar at the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), UC San Diego
Contact Information:
Address: 400 Thomson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195
Email: clayang AT uw.edu
Office: +1 (206) 543-5883
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