Yanhui Wu is Associate Professor of Economics and Management and Strategy at the University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Director of the Digital Economy Research Institute at the HKU Business School Shenzhen Campus. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics in 2011. Prior to his doctoral study, he was an award-winning financial journalist in China.
Yanhui Wu is Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His research concentrates on two areas: media economics and organizational economics. In media economics, he studies the political economy of mass media, particularly the underexplored subject of the media in China. In organizational economics, his research focuses on the organization of knowledge-intensive activities, the gig economy, and the impact of AI on the labor market and organizational capabilities. He is also interested in the development and application of machine learning methods in the social sciences. His work has been published at top economics, management, and statistics journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Journal of American Statistical Association.
For more information, please see Yanhui Wu's curriculum vitae.