Yi Ping, Ph.D.

Yi Ping is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERUNI Open Research Prague. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia (2024), where she also completed her M.A. in Economics in 2019. She earned an additional M.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018 and graduated with distinction with a B.A. in Economics from Renmin University of China in 2015. Her research centers on macroeconomics and financial economics, with a focus on collateralized debt contracts as market frictions and their implications for economic policy. She also applies machine learning techniques to solve quantitative dynamic general equilibrium models. Beyond research, she has abundant teaching experience in cross-sectional econometrics, financial economics, and macroeconomics.