Yongyi Lin | University of Maryland

Yongyi Lin

Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Welcome! I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in Managerial Economics at the University of Maryland. I examine how regulations and market structures shape innovation strategies in knowledge-intensive industries, including how transparency mandates, intellectual property regimes, and venture capital concentration influence firms' R&D decisions, from geographic allocation and risk-taking to the fundamental choice between novel and incremental innovation. I am on the 2026–2027 job market.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park

Ph.D. in Managerial Economics

August 2021 – 2027 (expected) — Clifton T. and Jane Story Phillips Scholarship

Duke University

M.A. in Economics

August 2019 – May 2021 — M.A. Merit Scholarship

Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

B.A. in Economics

September 2015 – June 2019 — Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship

02 / Research

Research

Job Market Paper

Disclosure, Appropriability, and Firms' R&D Decisions: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Yongyi Lin. Sole authored. Nominated for the 2025 Strategic Management Society Ph.D. Paper Prize. Presented at the 2025 Wharton Corporate Strategy and Innovation Conference, 2025 Strategy Science Conference, 2025 Industry Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2025 Duke Strategy Ph.D. Conference, and 2025 East Coast Doctoral Conference.

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Working Papers

Venture Capital, Market Power, and Financing of Innovation

Chengmou Lei, Yongyi Lin. Poster presentation at the 2026 American Finance Association Annual Meeting.

AFA poster

Are There Gender Differences in Ambition? Evidence from an Online Experiment

Nathan Barrymore, Cristian L. Dezső, Yongyi Lin

SSRN

Publications

Has Urbanization Accelerated PM2.5 Emissions? An Empirical Analysis with Cross-country Data

Qichen Dong, Yongyi Lin, Jieyu Huang, Zhongfei Chen. China Economic Review

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Selected Works in Progress

Information Transparency and Brain Drain

Yongyi Lin. Data collection underway.

Signaling and Venture Capital Investment Decisions

Yongyi Lin. Data collection underway.

Investment Ownership Legislation and Patenting

Justin Frake, Yongyi Lin, Kyeongki Park, Evan Starr. Data analysis in progress.

Teaching

University of Maryland

BMGT392: International Business

Instructor | Spring 2025, 2026

BUSO626: Global Economic Environment

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Bennet A. Zelner | Spring 2024

BUSI758: Global Risks and Opportunities

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Bennet A. Zelner | Spring 2022

BUSI788: Global Business

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Bennet A. Zelner | Fall 2021, 2022, 2023

Duke University

ECON601: Microeconomic Theory

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Huseyin Yildirim | Fall 2020