Chenyu Yang's research focuses on empirical industrial organization. He examines how market structure and market design drive innovation, product variety and efficiency in a variety of industries.

Publications

Asmat, Danial, Jake Kramer, and Chenyu Yang, “Price Discrimination under Minimum Advertised Price Restriction,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2026, 107

Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions: An Application to Merger and Product Variety, with Ying Fan, Journal of Political Economy 133.6 (2025)

Vertical Structure and Innovation: A Study of the SoC and Smartphone Industries, The RAND Journal of Economics 51.3 (2020): 739-785.
(previously circulated as "Could Vertical Integration Increase Innovation?")
 
Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market, with Ying Fan, AEJ: Microeconomics 12.2 (2020): 99-134.
 
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games, with Jeremy Fox and David Hsu, Journal of Political Economy 126.4 (2018): 1339-1373.
 
A Simple Nonparametric Approach to Estimating the Distribution of Random Coefficients in Structural Models, with Jeremy Fox and Kyoo il Kim, Journal of Econometrics 195.2 (2016): 236-254.