Ron Yang
I am an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Business Economics at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business.
My research focuses on industrial organization and transportation economics.
CV: Link (Updated July 2023)
Contact: ron.yang@sauder.ubc.ca
Working Papers
(Don't) Take Me Home: Home Preference and the Effect of Self-Driving Trucks on Interstate Trade (Updated May 23, 2023) [Paper]
Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading (with Pedro Degiovanni) [Paper]
Geographic Imbalance, Search Frictions, and Regulation: Causes of Empty Miles in Freight Trucking (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. WPS 10775) [Paper]
Work in Progress
Roadside Infrastructure, Parking, and Electric Trucks (with Frank Pinter and Sarah Armitage)
Solid(arity) Investments: Improving Unionizing Through the Stock Market (with Daniel Mark Deibler)
Teaching
Strategic Management (Instructor, University of British Columbia, 2024)
Deconstructing + Reconstructing Markets (Co-Instructor, Harvard University, 2020)
Ph.D. Industrial Organization II (Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 2019)
Moment Inequalities Cookbook: Practical guide to moment inequalities and inference, based on "Alternative Models for Moment Inequalities" (Pakes 2010) and "A Practical Two-Step Method for Testing Moment Inequalities" (Romano-Shaikh-Wolf 2014).
Single-Agent Dynamic Discrete Choice: Discussion of construction, identification, and estimation of single-agent DDC models, using both Rust Nested Fixed Point and Hotz-Miller CCP methods.
Dynamic Games: Discussion of dynamic games estimation using Pakes-Ostrovsky-Berry Inversion and Bajari-Benkard-Levin Simulation methods, and Markov-Perfect industry dynamics a la Ericson-Pakes.