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Yukai Yang obtained his PhD degree in 2012 at CREATES, Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus University, Denmark, where his thesis focused on "Modelling Nonlinear Vector Economic Time Series". He holds a Cand. Polit. from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Yang's research interests are primarily in the field of econometrics with a strong focus on smooth transition models, state-space models, macroeconometrics, financial econometrics, and high-dimensional analysis. He is proficient in several advanced computational methods, including Bayesian and MCMC-related techniques, and conducts extensive work in areas like cointegration, long memory, panel data analysis, and directional statistics. Yang is currently a Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University, contributing significantly to academic research and education in statistics and econometrics.
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