Yuxi Yao

Yuxi Yao is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the College of Business, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her office is located at HLH 523, Lincoln, NE 68588-0489, with contact phone 402-472-2319 and email yyao10@unl.edu.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Western Ontario (2020)
• M.A. in Economics, University of Western Ontario (2014)
• M.Sc. in Applied Economics, City University of Hong Kong (2012, with distinction)
• B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Economics, Xiamen University (2011)

Dr. Yao specializes in macroeconomic modeling of housing markets using heterogeneous agent frameworks. Her research analyzes long-term trends in house prices, rents, homeownership rates, and mortgage debt, while examining spatial location decisions and policy impacts. Her work bridges theoretical macroeconomics with empirical urban economic phenomena through computational methods.