Publications

The following is the list of published journal articles, book chapters, and working papers.

Journal Articles

  1. Strauss, I., Yang, J., and Mazzucato, M., “Rich-Get-Richer? Analyzing Content Creator Earnings Across Large Social Media Platforms”, Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming.

  2. Strauss, I., Yang, J., Tim O’Reilly, Sruly Rosenblat, and Isobel Moure, The Attribution Crisis in LLM Search Results: Estimating Ecosystem Exploitation, Data & Policy, 2026.

  3. Strauss, I. & Yang, J., M&A as Capability Building: Patent Evidence from Big Tech, Applied Economics Letters, 2026.

  4. Bonwoo Koo, Yang, J. and Brian D. Wright, Protecting Intermediate Innovations When Ideas Are Scarce: Patents or Secrecy?, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2025.

  5. Yang, J., Brian Cozzarin, Sarah Feng, and Torsten Heinrich, Productivity Dispersion and Investment Slowdown in Canada, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2025.

  6. Yang, J., Heinrich, T., Winkler, J., Lafond, F., Koutroumpis, P., and Farmer, D., Measuring Productivity Dispersion: a Parametric Approach Using the Levy α-Stable Distribution, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024.

  7. Strauss, I., & Yang, J., Testing for secular stagnation in investment rates using a Bayesian multilevel model, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024.

  8. Yang, J., Information-Theoretic Model of Induced Technological Change: Theory and Empirics, Metroeconomica, 2022.

  9. Heinrich, T., Yang, J., Dai, S., Levels of structural change: An analysis of China’s development push 1998-2014, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2021.

  10. Strauss, I., & Yang, J., Slowing Investment Rates in Developing Economies: Evidence from a Bayesian hierarchical model, International Review of Financial Analysis, 2021.

  11. Yang, J. and Carro, A., Two Tales of Complex System Analysis: ABM and MaxEnt, European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 2020.

  12. Scharfenaker, E and Yang, J., Maximum Entropy Economics, European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 2020.

  13. dos Santos, P. and Yang, J., Capital Mobility, Quasi-rents, and the Competitive Self-organization of Distributions of Profitability, Advances in Complex Systems, 2020.

  14. dos Santos, Paulo and Yang, J., The persistent and informative distribution of returns on capital, Economics and Business Letters, 2019.

  15. Yang, J. and Torres, D., The Persistent Statistical Structure of the US Input-Output Coefficient Matrices: 1963-2007, Economic Systems Research, 2019

  16. Yang, J., A Quantal Response Statistical Equilibrium Model of Induced Technical Change in an Interactive Factor Market: Firm-Level Evidence in the EU Economies, Entropy, 2018

  17. Yang, J., Information-Theoretic Approaches in Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018

Working papers

  1. Jangho Yang and Christian Schoder, Impact of temperature uncertainty on firm growth: A grid-level analysis, R&R at Environmental and Resource Economics.

  2. Lida Ghasemi*, Jangho Yang, and Stan Dimitrov, ``Green Innovation by Fossil Fuel Companies,’’ R&R at Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal.

  3. Sujung Jee, Jangho Yang, Torsten Heinrich, and Kejia Zhu, ``Gendered Effects of Remote Work on Knowledge Workers: Evidence from Inventors,’’ Under Review.

* indicates a paper coauthored with a student.