Yongjoon Park

Assistant Professor of Resource Economics Department

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Welcome!

I am an assistant professor of the Resource Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research interests include industrial organization and environmental economics.

Interests

Industrial Organization
Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics

Education

PhD in Economics, 2020
University of Maryland
MA in Economics, 2014
Seoul National University
BS in Math, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 2011
Pohang University of Science and Technology

Working Papers

Yongjoon Park, Maureen Cropper, Nicholas Muller, Victoria Perez-Zetune . The Impact of the Clean Air Act on Particulate Matter in the 1970s. Working Paper, 2022.

NBER Working Paper

Yongjoon Park, Soo Jin Kim . Examining the Coordinated Effects of the AA/USAir Merger. Working Paper, 2022.

Yongjoon Park . Structural Remedies in Network Industries: An Assessment of Slot Divestitures in the American Airlines/US Airways Merger. Working Paper, 2020.

Publications

Yongjoon Park, Sophia Li, Joe Mazur, James Roberts, Andrew Sweeting, Jun Zhang . Repositioning and Market Power After Airline Mergers. RAND Journal of Economics, 2022.

PDF Journal Page

Yongjoon Park, David Bellinger, Agnes Binagwaho, Maureen Cropper, Samantha Fisher, Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Pushpam Kumar, Philip Landrigan, Gabriella Taghian . Air Pollution and Development in Africa: impacts on health, the economy and human capital. Lancet Planetary Health, 2021.

Yongjoon Park, Maureen Cropper, Yiyun Ryna Cui, Sarath Guttikunda, Nathan Hultman, Puja Jawahar, Xinlu Yao, Xiaopeng Song . The Health Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India and the Co-benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reductions. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021.

Journal Page Data and Code

Yongjoon Park, Maureen Cropper, Yiyun Ryna Cui, Sarath Guttikunda, Nathan Hultman, Puja Jawahar, Xinlu Yao, Xiaopeng Song . The Mortality Impacts of Current and Planned Coal-Fired Power Plants in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.

Journal Page Media Coverage

Yongjoon Park . The Impact of Airline Mergers on Environmental Externalities. Transportation Research Record, 2019.

Teaching

Instructor @ UMass Amherst

RESEC701 Probability Theory and Statistical Inference
- 2022(Fall)
RESEC453 Public Policy in Private Markets
- 2021(Spring, Fall), 2022(Fall)
RESEC213 Intermediate Statistics for Business and Economics
- 2021(Fall)

Data

Nonattainment Areas for Criteria Pollutants

I created an interactive map showing county-level non-attainment status by pollutant and year.

Interactive Map Link