Anton C. Yang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Economics and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University
Research Consultant (Joint Postdoc)
Department of Economics, Yale University
Teaching and Research Associate
Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), Purdue University
Founding Chair, Chinese Economists Club (CEC)
Co-organizer, Seminars on Bridging the Gap between CGE and NQTMs.
Department of Economics and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University
Research Consultant (Joint Postdoc)
Department of Economics, Yale University
Teaching and Research Associate
Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), Purdue University
Founding Chair, Chinese Economists Club (CEC)
Co-organizer, Seminars on Bridging the Gap between CGE and NQTMs.
Primary Field: International Trade, Microeconomics
Secondary Field: Computational Economics
Secondary Field: Computational Economics
Anton's research interests lie primarily in the areas of international trade, theoretical and empirical studies of demand systems and their applications in economic models using quantitative and computational methods. His doctoral dissertation research re-examines the distance puzzle, and asks, why does geography matter so much for trade? He finds that some of the distance effect can be attributed to non-homotheticity when a more flexible demand model is incorporated into the canonical gravity model which would otherwise attribute the rapid falling off of the trade with distance to a large distance elasticity of trade costs. Anton's technical strength is building structural econometric models and finding numerical solutions to them using applied mathematical programming techniques for counterfactual analyses. Anton is also interested to understand and bridge the gap between computable general equilibrium (CGE) and new quantitative trade models (NQTMs) which are two broad classes of trade models for quantitative analysis. Anton has developed and taught guest lectures centered around the structural estimation of general equilibrium models, numerical optimization techniques applied to solve economic problems, and applied general equilibrium models.
While at Iowa State, Anton jointly developed a multi-sector trade model with both granular private and state-owned enterprises, and used an estimation procedure to quantify the role of granular comparative advantage embodied in leading large Chinese firms in shaping fundamental comparative advantage across sectors. Anton also helped co-develop a modeling system that links partial equilibrium components with a general equilibrium based model to capture both economy wide and product-specific impacts of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Anton will be joining the Department of Economics at Yale University in Fall 2022 as a full-time postdoctoral fellow.
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Department of Economics and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1054 USA
yanga (at) iastate (dot) edu
AgEc 644 Office Hour (Zoom)
Graphical Communication (Excalidraw)
Department of Economics and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1054 USA
yanga (at) iastate (dot) edu