Yanran Guo
Assistant Professor
Department Of Economics
York University
Vari Hall, 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J1P3, Canada

TEL: 919-360-3256
Email: gyr123@gmail.com
Web: https://yanranecon.github.io
Last updated: July 2024

Employment
Department Of Economics, York University
Assistant Professor

July 2024 - Decem. 2024

School of Economics, University of Queensland
LecturerAugust 2023 - June 2024

Visiting / Short-term Positions
South Australian Productivity Commission
ConsultantJanuary 2024 - June 2024

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Visiting Scholar

October 2022

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Fellow

April 2016 - July 2017

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

2017 - 2023

M.A., International Public Policy, Osaka University,

2013 - 2015

Visiting Graduate Student, Economics, University of Washington,2013 - 2014

B.A., Economics, Osaka International University,

2010 - 2013

Research Fields
Primary field: Macroeconomics
Secondary field: Entrepreneurship, Firm Dynamics, Wealth and Income Inequality, Taxation

Working Papers
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Entrepreneurs
Inheritance, Wealth Distribution, and Estate Taxation

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2Work in Progress
What Should We Tax, Capital, Wealth, or Inheritance?
Entrepreneurship and Informality in Brazil: Theory and Evidencewith Roberto Lagos Mondragon

Barriers to Credit Access for Black Entrepreneurship: A Self-fulfilling Perspectivewith Xincheng Qiu

Presentations
2025
North American Winter Meeting (San Francisco)*
2024
McMaster University*, SEA Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)*, North American Summer Meeting(Nashville), The University of Melbourne
2023
European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Manchester), WAMS+LAFE (Kuala Lumpur),OZMAC Workshop (Melbourne), The Australian National University, Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (Sydney), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Beijing), China International Conference in Macroeconomics (Chengdu), “Labor, Firms, and Macro” Workshop, Western University, Singapore Management University, University of Mississippi, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Goethe University Frankfurt, York University,
University of Exeter, University of Bristol, University of Queensland
2022
SEA Annual Meeting, I85 Macroeconomics Workshop, St. Louis Fed Brown Bag
2021
SEA Annual Meeting, I85 Macroeconomics Workshop, HCEO Summer School* scheduled talk

Teaching Experience
University of Queensland
Lecturer, Intermediate Macroeconomics

Spring 2024

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TA, Financial Markets and Economic Fluctuations

Spring 2023

TA, Introduction to Economics

Spring 2022

TA, Advanced Macroeconomics Theory I (Graduate)
Instructor, Intermediate Macroeconomics
TA, Intermediate Microeconomics
TA, Financial Economics
TA, Advanced Macro Theory II (Graduate)

Fall 2021/20/19/18
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Summer 2020
Spring 2019

Osaka International University
Guest Lecturer, Introductory Macroeconomics

Spring 2015/16

Awards and Achievements
Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School2022

UNC Economics Department Travel Grants

2022/21

The Buono Family Fund for Excellence in Economics

2021/19

Robert E. Gallman Graduate Student Fund2020

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Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

2020/19/18

UNC Economics Department Fellowship2017-2022

Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship for Privately-Financed International Student
Osaka University Scholarship for Overseas Research Activities

SkillsComputation

Matlab, Stata, Julia, R, LaTex

Language

Chinese (native), English (fluent), Japanese (fluent)

2013/152013