Anton C. Yang
Affiliations:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Economics Department (FASECO), Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Teaching and Research Associate, Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), Purdue University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Economics Department (FASECO), Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Teaching and Research Associate, Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), Purdue University
Primary Field: International Trade
Secondary Field: Computational Economics, Industrial Organization
Secondary Field: Computational Economics, Industrial Organization
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.
Prior to Yale, Anton has worked remotely for Iowa State University. 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).
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Department of Economics
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
anton.yang@yale.edu
Personal Zoom Meeting
Graphical Communication (Excalidraw)
Room 112, 53 Wall Street
Department of Economics
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
anton.yang@yale.edu
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