Yuting Yang

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Assistant Professor

Email:  yutingyang@unm.edu
Office:  ECON 2010
Website:  Personal website
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Bio

Dr. Yuting Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. She employs economic tools such as theoretical modeling, empirical analysis, simulation methods, and benefit–cost analysis to evaluate the impact of climate policies on decarbonization and renewable energy investment. Her research centers on promoting an efficient and equitable clean energy transition, with a focus on how climate policies drive electricity sector decarbonization, the equity of energy transition incentives in the residential sector, and the economic feasibility of emerging clean energy technologies. Her recent work has been published in leading economics and interdisciplinary journals, including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Energy, and Environmental Science & Technology. She also serves as a young editorial member for Applied Energy.

Research Areas

  • Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Energy Economics
  • Electricity Markets

Teaching Interests

  • Microeconomic Theory
  • Environmental and Energy Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Cost-benefit analysis

Selected Publications

Yang Y. (2022). Electricity interconnection with intermittent renewables. Journal of Environ-
mental Economics and Management, 113, 102653.

Ambec S. & Yang Y. (2024). Climate policy with electricity trade. Resource and Energy
Economics, 76, 101422.

Treich N. & Yang Y. (2021). Public safety under imperfect taxation. Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 106, 102421.

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).

Wang, R., Yang, Y., Guo, J., Zhang, Q., Wan, Y., Cao, F., Han, L, & Ling, T. (2025) Cath-
ode catalyst layers modified with Brønsted acid oxides to improve proton exchange membrane
electrolysers for impure water splitting. Nature Energy 10, 880–889