Dr. Kai Yang

Biography

Kai Hao Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Management with a focus on Economics. He received his B.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University in 2012 and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2020. His research interests span across Consumer Economics, Game Theory, Matching Markets, and Digital Strategy, emphasizing the implications of market structures on consumer welfare and competition. Before his appointment at Yale, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics from 2020 to 2021. His works have been published in prestigious journals including the RAND Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review, covering topics such as welfare losses caused by informational intermediaries and market segmentation. With several forthcoming articles, Yang continues to contribute significantly to the contemporary discourse in economic theory and consumer research.

Research Interests