Yao Amber Li

Yao Amber Li is an assistant professor of Economics and Faculty Associate of IEMS at HKUST. Her research interests include knowledge diffusion, technology transfer/upgrading, MNEs, and economic geography. Her recent work has focused on understanding the frictions in knowledge diffusion and the strategic responses of firms to external shocks (e.g., trade liberalization and exchange rate shocks).

Industrial Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition
This project's objective is to use theoretically-motivated empirics to examine the relationship between market power and industrial agglomeration/clusters in order to better evaluate the impacts of development policies that promote or support industrial clusters. The project also undertook a comparative analysis which examines the extent to which these findings are common both within and across India and China, and in what ways they differ.
