Welcome

I am Abby, Ph.D. in Economics, currently a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. My primary research interests are Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, and the Economics of Crime.

My Cybercrime paper has been published in the Journal of Legal Studies and the Contest Design paper in Games. I received a research grant from INBRE for a working paper to understand the mask mandate policy’s impact on private entities’ economic activities during the pandemic. I am currently working on papers regarding the U.S. Stand-Your-Ground law and the NWA housing market using a diff-in-diff approach and logit models (nested and random coefficient).

I am a certified Python user. I mainly use Python and STATA for web scraping, data cleaning and analysis, and MATLAB to construct theoretical and econometrics models and simulations.

Contact Information:
Email: yhong@walton.uark.edu
Department of Economics
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701