Dr Jongsay Yong

Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Tel. +61 3 8344 2121
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. jongsay@unimelb.edu.au

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Jongsay Yong is Senior Research Fellow in the Health Economics Section of the Melbourne Institute. He joined the Melbourne Institute in 2002, after spending several years as lecturer and later senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore. His main research interests are in applied areas of industrial economics and health economics. His recent research focuses on measuring hospital performance and quality using patient-level data, and firm productivity analyses using firm-level data.

Recent working papers

• "Estimating the Patent Premium: Evidence from the Australian Inventor Survey," (with P. Jensen and R. Thomson) IPRIA Working Paper, University of Melbourne, 2009.
• "Hospital Markets and the Effect of Competition on Quality," (with A. Palangkaraya) Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 17, University of Melbourne, 2009.
• "Hospital Competition, Technical Efficiency, and Quality," (with C.L. Chua and Alfons Palangkaraya) Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 16, University of Melbourne, 2009.
• "Income, Leisure and Happiness: Does Personality Explain Individual Heterogeneity in subjective well-being?" (with S. Schurer) Paper presented at The Symposium on Interdisciplinary Studies on Happiness, 20-21 Nov 2008, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Forthcoming publications

• Chua, C.L., A. Palangkaraya and J. Yong, "A two-stage estimation of hospital quality using mortality outcome measures: An application using hospital administrative data," Health Economics, accepted September 2009.
• Palangkaraya, A. and J. Yong, "Population Ageing and its Implications on Aggregate Health Care Demand: Empirical Evidence from 22 OECD Countries," International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, accepted March 2009.
• Leahy, A., A. Palangkaraya and J. Yong, "Geographical agglomeration in Australian manufacturing," Regional Studies, accepted August 2008.
• Palangkaraya, A., J. Yong, E. Webster and P. Dawkins, "The distributive consequences of recent private health insurance policies in Australia: Gainers versus losers," European Journal of Health Economics, accepted May 2008.

Selected recent publications

• Palangkaraya, A., A. Stierwald and J. Yong (2009), "Is firm productivity related to size and age? The case of large Australian firms," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 9(2), 167-195.
• Palangkaraya, A. and J. Yong (2007), "How effective is 'Lifetime Health Cover' in raising private health insurance coverage in Australia? An assessment using regression discontinuity," Applied Economics, 39(11), July, 1361-1374.
• Goh, M. and J. Yong (2006), "Impacts of code-share alliances on airline cost structure: A truncated third order translog estimation," International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24(4), 835-866.
• Palangkaraya, A. and J. Yong (2005), "Effects of recent carrot-and-stick policy initiatives on private health insurance coverage in Australia," Economic Record, 81 (254), September, 262-72.
• Chua, C.L., H. Kew and J. Yong (2005), "Airline code-share alliances and costs: Imposing concavity on translog cost function estimation," Review of Industrial Organization, 26(4), June, 461-87.