Publications
Economics
Yang, Y. (2026) Disentangling the distributional inequity of solar tax credits. Energy Economics, 158, 109294. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140988326001738
Ambec, S. & Yang, Y. (2024) Climate policy with electricity trade. Resource and Energy Economics, Volume 76, 101422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2023.101422
Yang, Y. (2022) Electricity interconnection with intermittent renewables. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 113, 102653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102653
Treich, N. & Yang, Y. (2021) Public safety under imperfect taxation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 106,102421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102421
Interdisciplinary
Guo, J., Wang, R., Yang, Y., Zhang, Q., Cao, F., Zhao, J., … & Ling, T. (2026). Local alkalinity enables high-performance pure water anion exchange membrane electrolysis. Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69053-4
Xu, J., Yang, Y., Jin, H., Zheng, Y. & Qiao, S.Z., (2025) Bridging gaps between lab-and fab-oriented anode design for proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers. Chem 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2024.09.004
Xiao, S., Yang, Y., Li, Y., Lin, J., & Jin, Y., (2025) Decarbonizing the Non-Carbon: Benefit-Cost Analysis of Phasing Out the Most Potent GHG in Interconnected Power Grids. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(9). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10752?ref=pdf
Wang, R., Yang, Y., Guo, J., Zhang, Q., Wan, Y., Cao, F., Han, L, & Ling, T., (2025) High-performance impure water proton-exchange-membrane electrolysers. Nature Energy, 10, 880–889 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01787-9
Policy papers
Yang, Y.,, Zhao, J., McMaster, R., & Serra-Sala, C. (2025). Residential solar market and utility policy in New Mexico. White Paper, UNM Department of Economics, prepared for the State of New Mexico
Yang, Y., & Zhao, J. (2024). Equity in solar PV adoption in New Mexico. White Paper, UNM Department of Economics, prepared for the State of New Mexico.
Working Papers
Vick, E., Yang, Y., & Chermak, J., From peak to base load: understanding residential electricity consumption in the context of energy transition. Submitted.
Yang, Y., & Goodkind, A., Durable Goods, Multimarket Firms, and the Hidden Spillovers of Local Regulation. Under review.
Mamkhezri, J., Sun, X., & Yang, Y., The Hidden Cost of the Cloud: Data Centers and Electricity Market Inefficiency. Submitted. USAEE working paper
Mamkhezri, J., & Yang, Y., Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Residential Electrification: A Discrete Choice Experiment. Submitted.
Sun, Z., Liu, H., Cheng, Y., Li, H., Han, Z., Tang, Y., Zhang, X., Shi, C., He, F., Yang, Y., Chen, B., & He, H., 900°C Thermal-Force Coupling Carbonization Tailoring Hard Carbon Microstructures for 216.1 Wh kg-1 Sodium-Ion Pouch Batteries. Revision requested.
Zhang, P., Zhao, Z., Wang, T., Yang, Y., & Gong, J., Technical feasibility and economic viability for coupling electrocatalytic reactions. Submitted.
Work-in-progress
Serre-Sala, C., & Yang, Y., The impact of net metering policy design on residential solar capacity decisions. Work-in-progress.