Jingyi Xing
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland
Jingyi Xing is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Maryland and a graduate research and teaching assistant.
Her research focuses on industrial organization, antitrust and competition policy, regulation, and consumer protection. She studies how firms’ performance and competitive strategies interact with price and quality regulation and changes in market structure, with applications to airlines, transportation, short-term rentals, and health-care mergers and acquisitions.
Before beginning her doctoral studies, Xing worked as a research assistant at Queen’s University and as a research analyst at the Brattle Group.
Xing has received several research grants and academic honors, including the University of Maryland’s Melville J. Ulmer Graduate Fellowship for the best second-year paper, Faculty-Student Research Grants, a Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, and a Dean’s Fellowship. She has also received an Institute for Humane Studies Research Grant, an NBER Digitization Conference Travel Grant, a Mitacs Globalink Research Award, and a second-place award in the University of Maryland’s poster competition.
She is pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Maryland. She earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics from Wuhan University, graduating with highest distinction.
