Lecturer in International Business
E-mail: y.e.wang@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 113 343 6856
Dr Yi (Elizabeth) Wang is a Lecturer in International Business at the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). She graduated from Capital University of Economics and Business, major in Statistics and Economics and minor in International Business. She obtained MSc in International Finance before completing her Ph.D in International Business and Economics in Dec 2009. Her doctoral research is titled "Foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers in China". Her research excellence has been recognized by the Academy of International Business (AIB) Uk & Ireland Annual Conference 2007 when she was awarded the Neil Hood and Stephen Young Proze for the Most Original New Work at the Doctoral Colloquium. She conducted quantitative research which is concerned with the performance of local Chinese enterprises and how their performance is influenced by the presence of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Her research interests center around the impact of FDI, in particular the econometric modeling of the determinants of the difference in local firm performance, technological and productivity spillover effects arising from inward and outward FDI, the spatial dimension of FDI spillovers, mutual spillovers between locally and foreign owned enterprises, and the sustainability of FDI spillovers. Her other research interests center around the developmental process of the Chinese economy, in particular the differences in development mechanisms of China's regions, and the behaviors of Chinese firms in high tech industries and their influence on firms in other industries through industrial linkages and knowledge spillovers, determinants of regional technological capability, and the development of service firms in China and their impact on productivity. Furthermore, Elizabeth is also conducting research on the impact of innovation or research and development (R&D) on firm productivity, and the econometric modelling of the determinants of Chinese outward FDI.