杨瑞辉教授现为长江商学院经济学教授，他拥有牛津大学（University of Oxford）数学博士学位，并曾在惠灵顿维多利亚大学（Victoria University of Wellington）获得数学学士与硕士学位。杨教授在20岁即完成了博士课程，并获得当年最佳论文奖项“Senior Mathematics Prize for the best dissertation”，他还分别于2004年和2009年获得惠灵顿维多利亚大学颁发的荣誉商业学博士学位，及爱沙尼亚商学院荣誉博士学位。杨教授曾任香港中文大学教授、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校教授。

杨教授的研究方向包括国际金融经济学、政治经济学和公司治理等。他的代表性著作之一《Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Redistribution Theory》由剑桥大学出版社出版，并获得了两位诺贝尔奖得主和诺贝尔委员会主席的肯定。此外，杨教授在多个著名顶级学术期刊发表超过 40 篇学术论文，并在著名经济学学术期刊《American Economic Review》史无前例地连续担任4届编委。

国际与发展经济学、国际金融、金融经济学、公司治理

Books

• Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Redistribution Theory (with S. P. Magee and W. A. Brock, Cambridge University Press), 1990.
• The Hong Kong Securities Industry (3rd edition), with R. Chiang (Official Manual for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Broker's Examination)1997.
• The Financial Markets of China (with H. Mok), Chinese University Press, 1997.

Journal Articles

• "Alternative Tax Systems to Correct for Externalities and the Technical Options of Firms,"Economica, 1977.
• "Price, Inventory and the Structure of Uncertain Demand," New Zealand Operations Research, 1978.
• "Uncertainty, Market Structure and Resource Allocation," Oxford Economic Papers, 1979.
• "Ranking Optimal Tariffs and Quotas for a Large Country Under Uncertainty," Journal of International Economics, 1979.
• "Tariffs vs Quotas Under Uncertainty: An Extension," American Economic Review, 1980.
• "Distributional Neutrality and Optimal Commodity Taxation," American Economic Review, 1980.
• "An Extension of the Composite Commodity Theorem," (with J. Fountain) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980.
• "The Optimal Policies for Restricting Trade Under Uncertainty," (with J.E. Anderson) Review of Economic Studies, 1980.
• "Optimal Revenue-Raising Trade Restrictions Under Uncertainty," Journal of International Economics, 1981.
• "On the Optimal Stabilisation of Internal Producers' Prices in International Trade," (with M. C. Kemp), International Economic Review, 1982.
• "Quantity Controls vs Expenditure Controls in International Trade Under Uncertainty,"Journal of International Economics, 1982.
• "Risk Aversion and Optimal Trade Restrictions," (with J. E. Anderson) Review of Economic Studies, 1982.
• "The Optimality of Tariff Quotas Under Uncertainty," (with J.E. Anderson) Journal of International Economics, 1983.
• "Uncertainty and the Theory of International Trade in Long Run Equilibrium," Journal of Economic Theory, 1984.
• "International Investment and Immiserizing Growth" (with K. Miyagiwa) Journal of International Economics, 1986.
• "International Capital Mobility and Commercial Policy in an Economic Region" (with K. Miyagiwa)Journal of International Economics, 1986.
• "Factor Returns and Resource Allocation in the Political Economy of Trade Restrictions" (with S. P. Magee) Review of Economic Studies, 1986, reprinted in The International Political Economy of Trade, D. A. Lake, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1992.
• "A Note on Sector-Specific Capital, Interconnectedness in Production and Welfare" Canadian Journal of Economics, 1986.
• "Intermediate Goods and the Formation of Duty Free Zones" Journal of Development Economics, 1987.
• "Unemployment and the Formation of Duty-Free Zones" (with K. Miyagiwa) Journal of Development Economics, 1987.
• "Asset Prices, Commodity Prices and Money: a General Equilibrium, Rational Expectations Model" (with G.W.Boyle), American Economic Review, 1988.
• "Forward and Futures Markets in a General Equilibrium Monetary Model" (with G.W.Boyle)Journal of Financial Economics, 1989.
• "International Investment and the Positive Theory of International Trade" (with J. Romero) Journal of International Economics, 1990.
• "Optimal Tariffs: A Generalisation," International Economic Review, 1991.
• "Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory with Variable Returns to Scale," Journal of International Economics, 1991.
• "Stock Returns, Inflation and Interest Rates: Ex Ante and Ex Post Relationships," (with G.W. Boyle) International Review of Financial Analysis, 1991.
• "Output Fluctuations as Entry Deterrence: A Model of Predatory Pricing" (with A. Bolbol), Canadian Journal of Economics, 1992.
• "Optimal Taxation and Debt in an Open Economy,"(with J.E. Anderson), Journal of Public Economics, 1992.
• "Risk Aversion and Stock Market Volatility"(with G.W. Boyle), Journal of Macroeconomics, 1992.
• "Unemployment and the Optimal Export-Processing Zone," Journal of Development Economics, 1993.
• "Economic Development with Limited and Unlimited Supplies of Capital," (with A. Bolbol)Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, 1993.
• "The Design of Executive Stock Options," (with Socorro Quintero), Managerial and Decision Economics, 1995.
• "The Black Hole of Graft: The Predatory State and the Informal Economy," (with D. Marcouiller),American Economic Review, 1995.
• "Education, Trade and Development," Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 1995.
• "The Tao of Price: Sima Qian's Discovery of the Price Mechanism" Pacific Economic Review, 1996.
• "Executive Stock Options, Risk and Incentives" (with Socorro Quintero and Michael Baur) Journal of Financial and Decision Sciences, 1997 V. 10 #2, Summer 1997.
• "Licensing of New Technology vs. Direct Foreign Investment: A General Equilibrium Analysis,"(with Kaz Miyagiwa) Pacific Economic Review, 1997.
• "International Stock Market Equilibium with Heterogeneous Tastes,"(with James Bennett)American Economic Review, 1999.
• "Monetary Rules and Stock Market Value: (with Glenn Boyle) Journal of Economics and Business, 1999.
• "Dividends and Expropriation", (with Mara Faccio and Larry Lang) American Economic Review, 2001.
• "Non-Discriminating Foreclosure and Unavoidable Liquidating Costs: The Case of Mortgage Defaults" (with Ko Wang and Zhou Yuqing) Review of Financial Studies, 2002.
• "Who Controls US", European Financial Management, (with Yoser Gadhoum and Larry Lang) 2005.
• "Pyramiding vs Leverage in Corporate Groups: International Evidence" (with Mara Faccio, Larry HP Lang), Journal of International Business Studies 41, 88–104, 2010.
• "Cognitive and Linguistic Foundations of Chinese History", forthcoming, Pacific Economic Review.

Papers Under Review

• "Trade and Contract Enforcement", with James E. Anderson
• "The Canadian Puzzle", with Yoser Gadhoum and Larry Lang
• "Debt and Expropriation", with Mara Faccio and Larry Lang