Publications
Economics
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
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
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
Interdisciplinary
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
Yang, Y., Disentangle the distributional inequity of solar tax credits. R&R.
Vick, E., Yang, Y., & Chermak, J., From peak to base load: understanding residential electricity consumption in the context of energy transition. R&R.
Guo, J., Wang, R., Yang, Y., Zhang, Q., Cao, F., Zhao, J., Pan, C., & Ling, T., Solid-base engineered local alkalinity enables high-performance anion exchange membrane water electrolysers. R&R.
Yang, Y., & Goodkind, A., Durable Goods, Multimarket Firms, and the Hidden Spillovers of Local Regulation. Submitted.
Mamkhezri, J., Sun, X., & Yang, Y., The Hidden Cost of the Cloud: Data Centers and Electricity Market Inefficiency. USAEE working paper
Work-in-progress
Serre-Sala, C., & Yang, Y., The impact of net metering policy design on residential solar capacity decisions. Work-in-progress.