Youngjin Hong

Research Interests

Industrial Organization

Working Papers (* indicates presentation by coauthors)

"An Instrumental Variables Approach to Testing Firm Conduct under a Bertrand-Nash Framework" with In Kyung Kim and Kyoo il Kim

• Previously circulated under the title "An Instrumental Variables Approach to Testing Firm Conduct"

• Presentation: ASSA 2026 Annual Meeting (scheduled), The World Congress of the Econometric Society 2025*, UC Riverside*, IIOC 2025,  Sogang University*,  University of British Columbia*, Simon Fraser University*, Korea's Allied Economic Association 2025*,  Yonsei University*,  University of Montreal*

"Who Drives Toyota Out? Heterogeneous Responses of Automobile Consumers to International Conflicts" with In Kyung Kim

• Presentation: APIOC 2024,  Sogang University*

"Branding through responsibility: the advertising impact of CSR activities in the Korean instant noodles market" with In Kyung Kim and Kyoo il Kim 

*Revise and Resubmit, Review of Industrial Organization

• Previously circulated under the title "Does it pay to be a reputable company? Insights from the instant noodles market"

• Presentation: Sogang University,  International Association of Applied Econometrics [IAAE 2024],  Korea's Allied Economic Association [KAEA 2024] graduate session

Work in Progress

"Testing Conditional Lorenz Dominance with High-Dimensional Data" with Sukyung Joo, Beomsu Kim, and Sungwon Lee