Yan Bai

Yan Bai is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She serves as a coeditor of the Journal of International Economics and sits on the advisory board of the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota after completing her bachelor's and master's degrees in China.

Bai's research focuses on macroeconomics, international economics, and the Chinese economy. Her work examines how frictions in financial markets shape international capital flows, firm dynamics, and business cycles, and her current research centers on optimal trade policy. Her work has been published in leading economics journals.