Associate Professor Jongsay Yong
Principal Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Location
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 6, Alan Gilbert Building
The University of Melbourne
Jongsay Yong is Principal 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.
Research Interests
- Industrial Economics, particularly on productivity- and innovation-related issues.
- Health Economics, on measuring hospital performance, and applied issues in relation to private health insurance.
- Panel data and applications of multilevel/hierachical models.
- Associate Professor Jongsay Yong's SSRN Author Page
Selected recent publications
- Jensen, PH, R Thomson and J Yong (forthcoming), "Estimating the Patent Premium: Evidence from the Australian Inventor Survey," Strategic Management Journal, accepted May 2010.
- Chua, CL, A Palangkaraya and J Yong (forthcoming), "A two-stage estimation of hospital quality using mortality outcome measures: An application using hospital administrative data," Health Economics, accepted September 2009.
- Leahy, A, A Palangkaraya and J Yong (2010), "Geographical agglomeration in Australian manufacturing," Regional Studies, 44(3), 299-314.
- 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.