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’s 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...