Ming-Yen Ho

PhD Candidate in Business and Public Policy
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

I study industrial policy and innovation in advanced manufacturing, with a focus on semiconductors and other hardware technology. My fields are political economy and industrial organization. I am on the 2026–27 job market.

mho@berkeley.edu

Job market paper

Picking Winners or Building Them? Central and Local Government Venture Capital in Chinese Semiconductors

Education

Ph.D., Business Administration (Business and Public Policy), UC Berkeley, expected 2027
Thesis: Essays on the Political Economy of High-tech Manufacturing
M.A., Analytical Political Economy, Duke University, 2021
B.Soc.Sc. and LL.B., University of Hong Kong, 2019 (First Class Honours)