Vincent Yao is the AREA Chair, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, and Director of Real Estate Center at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, in Atlanta, GA. He is a senior research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He also serves as Chair of the Advisory Council for Fiserv Inc., a Fortune 500 company specializing in payments and financial technology.
Professor Yao's current research interests are fintech, payment, banking, household finance, climate finance, and macro finance. His papers have been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Urban Economics.Â
Professor Yao received his B.A. from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany.
Professor Yao's recent research has focused on the following areas:
monetary policies;
Financial innovations;
Banking crisis and competition.