Yongyang Cai

1.4k total citations
36 papers, 798 citations indexed

About

Yongyang Cai is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongyang Cai has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 798 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Yongyang Cai's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers), Economic theories and models (7 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 papers). Yongyang Cai is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers), Economic theories and models (7 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 papers). Yongyang Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Yongyang Cai's co-authors include Thomas S. Lontzek, Kenneth L. Judd, Timothy M. Lenton, Elizabeth Baldwin, Daiju Narita, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Harris Selod, Thomas W. Hertel and Alla Golub and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yongyang Cai

34 papers receiving 771 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yongyang Cai United States 15 493 311 241 108 58 36 798
Thomas S. Lontzek Switzerland 10 388 0.8× 256 0.8× 206 0.9× 70 0.6× 32 0.6× 18 572
Felix Pretis United Kingdom 14 474 1.0× 199 0.6× 229 1.0× 96 0.9× 65 1.1× 40 862
Alexander Golub United States 19 588 1.2× 172 0.6× 212 0.9× 127 1.2× 31 0.5× 65 864
Antony Millner United Kingdom 13 438 0.9× 190 0.6× 121 0.5× 41 0.4× 44 0.8× 29 660
Jean-Charles Hourcade France 16 453 0.9× 164 0.5× 289 1.2× 147 1.4× 24 0.4× 62 736
Ross McKitrick Canada 19 475 1.0× 487 1.6× 207 0.9× 142 1.3× 33 0.6× 71 1.1k
Knut H. Alfsen Norway 16 291 0.6× 137 0.4× 117 0.5× 92 0.9× 32 0.6× 50 644
Francesco Pauli Italy 10 507 1.0× 63 0.2× 219 0.9× 264 2.4× 23 0.4× 28 723
Javier Fernández-Macho Spain 15 543 1.1× 124 0.4× 79 0.3× 38 0.4× 54 0.9× 39 789

Countries citing papers authored by Yongyang Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yongyang Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongyang Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yongyang Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yongyang Cai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yongyang Cai. Yongyang Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cai, Yongyang, Jessica A. Gephart, Megan Konar, et al.. (2025). Interactions and tradeoffs for sustainability, equity, and resilience in wasted food models. Environmental Research Communications. 7(4). 45013–45013.
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Li, Yang, Michael A. Wulder, Zhe Zhu, et al.. (2024). DRMAT: A multivariate algorithm for detecting breakpoints in multispectral time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114402–114402. 3 indexed citations
3.
Cai, Yongyang & Kenneth L. Judd. (2023). A simple but powerful simulated certainty equivalent approximation method for dynamic stochastic problems. Quantitative Economics. 14(2). 651–687. 2 indexed citations
4.
Golub, Alla, Brent Sohngen, Yongyang Cai, John B. Kim, & Thomas W. Hertel. (2022). Costs of forest carbon sequestration in the presence of climate change impacts. Environmental Research Letters. 17(10). 104011–104011. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Yang, Yanlan Liu, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2021). Impacts of forest loss on local climate across the conterminous United States: Evidence from satellite time-series observations. The Science of The Total Environment. 802. 149651–149651. 33 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang. (2018). Computational Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Baldwin, Elizabeth, Yongyang Cai, & Karlygash Kuralbayeva. (2018). To Build or Not to Build? Capital Stocks and Climate Policy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
8.
Yeltekin, Şevin, Yongyang Cai, & Kenneth L. Judd. (2017). Computing Equilibria of Dynamic Games. Operations Research. 65(2). 337–356. 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang, Harris Selod, & Jevgenijs Steinbuks. (2015). Urbanization and Property Rights. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang, Kenneth L. Judd, Timothy M. Lenton, Thomas S. Lontzek, & Daiju Narita. (2015). Environmental tipping points significantly affect the cost−benefit assessment of climate policies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(15). 4606–4611. 81 indexed citations
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Lontzek, Thomas S., Yongyang Cai, Kenneth L. Judd, & Timothy M. Lenton. (2015). Stochastic integrated assessment of climate tipping points indicates the need for strict climate policy. Nature Climate Change. 5(5). 441–444. 152 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang & Alan H. Sanstad. (2015). Model uncertainty and energy technology policy: The example of induced technical change. Computers & Operations Research. 66. 362–373. 13 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Joshua Elliott, & Thomas W. Hertel. (2014). The Effect of Climate and Technological Uncertainty in Crop Yields on the Optimal Path of Global Land Use. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang, Kenneth L. Judd, & Thomas S. Lontzek. (2012). DSICE: A Dynamic Stochastic Integrated Model of Climate and Economy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 34 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang & Kenneth L. Judd. (2012). Dynamic Programming with Hermite Interpolation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang & Kenneth L. Judd. (2012). Dynamic programming with shape-preserving rational spline Hermite interpolation. Economics Letters. 117(1). 161–164. 13 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang & Kenneth L. Judd. (2012). Shape-preserving dynamic programming. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. 77(3). 407–421. 15 indexed citations
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Lontzek, Thomas S., Yongyang Cai, & Kenneth L. Judd. (2012). Tipping Points in a Dynamic Stochastic IAM. SSRN Electronic Journal. 15 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang. (2010). Dynamic programming and its application in economics andfinance. 7 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongyang, et al.. (2007). A model for intraday volatility.

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