Biography

Jangho Yang is an Assistant Professor of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to his employment at UW, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Oxford Martin School and INET, University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research.

His research has focused on the applications of Bayesian statistical modeling to a wide range of economic questions including firm-level dynamics of investment, global innovation frontier, and input-output analysis. He is also interested in information-theoretic economic/econometric modeling. His doctoral dissertation is about statistical equilibrium models of technological change and Bayesian estimations of the innovation possibilities frontier. He has published in economics and multidisciplinary journals such as the Journal of Economic Surveys, Economics Systems Research, Entropy, European Physical Journals Special Topics, and Advances in Complex Systems.

Recent Publications

Jun 2024
Journal
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution
in Industrial and Corporate Change
Jangho Yang ,  Torsten Heinrich ,  Julian Winkler ,  François Lafond ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  J. Doyne Farmer
Jan 2023
Working Paper
Innovation in times of Covid-19
Torsten Heinrich ,  Jangho Yang
Apr 2022
INET Working Paper
No. 2019-14 - Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution
Jangho Yang ,  Torsten Heinrich ,  Julian Winkler ,  François Lafond ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  J. Doyne Farmer
Sept 2021
Journal
Levels of structural change: An analysis of China’s development push 1998-2014
in Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Shuanping Dai ,  Jangho Yang ,  Torsten Heinrich
Jul 2020
Journal
Two tales of complex system analysis: MaxEnt and agent-based modeling
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Jangho Yang ,  Adrián Carro
Jan 2019
Journal
The persistent statistical structure of the US input–output coefficient matrices: 1963–2007
in Economic Systems Research
Jangho Yang ,  Luis Daniel Torres-Gonzáles
Sept 2017
Journal
Information Theoretic Approaches in Economics
in Journal of Economic Surveys
Jangho Yang

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