My current research focuses on theoretical and empirical models on the origin and transmission mechanisms of the recent financial crisis. Citations to my works can be viewed at the following link http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&as_sauthors=Pingkang+Yu
Articles in Refereed Journals
New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals (with Yolanda K. Kodrzycki), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions) (2006)
We develop a flexible, citations- and reference-intensity-adjusted ranking technique that allows a specified set of...
Gauging Metropolitan "High-Tech" and "I-Tech" Activity (with Karen Chapple, Ann Markusen, Daisaku Yamamoto, and Gregory Schrock ), Economic Development Quarterly (2004)
In the past few years, a number of new studies have published high-tech rankings of...
Rejoinder: High-Tech Rankings, Specialization, and Relationship to Growth (with Daisaku Yamamoto , Karen Chapple, Ann Markusen , and Greg Schrock ), Economic Development Quarterly (2004)
Articles in Scholarly Publications
Focus on high-tech: what's in a name?: gauging high-tech activity, Regional Review (2004)
The Boston metro area fares well when assessing a region抯 high-tech capacity by its share...
Focus on the Region: Defense Windfall for New England? (with Yolanda Kodrzycki), Regional Review (2003)
Although New England still gets more than its share of defense prime contract dollars, the...
The Region抯 High-Tech Economies (with Daisaku Yamamoto, Karen Chapple, Ann Markusen, and Greg Schrock ), Northeast Midwest Economic Review (2001)
Contributions to Books
美国大都市区域高科技活动与经济发展：上海高科技发展的定位在哪里？ (with Ann Markusen), 上海崛起：一座全球大都市中的国家战略与地方变革 (2009)
http://sh.eastday.com/qtmt/20090805/u1a610485.html
High Tech Activity and Urban Economic Development in the Unite States: Where Should the Bar Be Set for Shanghai? (with Ann Markusen), Shanghai Rising:State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity (2009)
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/chen_shanghai.html