Ron Yang

I am an Assistant Professor in the Strategy and Business Economics Division 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)

Publications

From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity? Review of Financial Studies, 2023 (with Gideon Saar, Jian Sun, and Haoxiang Zhu)  [Paper, Appendix, SSRN] 

Media: Bloomberg

Working Papers

(Don't) Take Me Home: Home Preference and the Effect of Self-Driving Trucks on Interstate Trade [Paper] (Updated May 23, 2023)

Awards: Urban Economics Association 2021 Student Prize (Honourable Mention)

Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading (with Pedro Degiovanni) [Paper] (Pedro's Job Market Paper)

Work in Progress

Roadside Infrastructure, Parking, and Electric Trucks (with Frank Pinter and Sarah Armitage)

Teaching and Resources

Undergraduate Sophomore Tutorial: Deconstructing + Reconstructing Markets (Co-Instructor, Harvard University, Spring 2020)

Syllabus

Assignments

Ph.D. Industrial Organization II (Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Spring 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.

Contact

Email Address

ron.yang@sauder.ubc.ca