Welcome!

I am Tianyu, a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Yale University. My research interests span trade, development, and economic growth. Currently, my work focuses on two main areas: understanding how technological changes affect labor markets and examining the role of geopolitics in shaping economic growth and global trade and capital flows.

Contact me at tianyu.fan@yale.edu. Here is my Curriculum Vitae.

I expect to be on the job market this fall (2025/26).

Working Papers

The Geopolitical Determinants of Economic Growth, 1960 - 2019
Links: [Latest Version] | [arXiv] | [SSRN]

The Labor Market Incidence of New Technologies
Links: [Latest Version] | [arXiv] | [SSRN]

Publications

Growing Like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth
with Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti
Econometrica, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2023
Links: [Published Version] | [Corrigendum] | [Working Paper] | [VoxDev] | [Ideas for India]

Work in Progress

Partial Automation
with Pascual Restrepo

Geopolitical Barriers to Global Trade and Capital Flows
with Mai Wo and Wei Xiang

Measuring Inflation Inequality with Incomplete Prices
with Olivia Ding and Kan Yao