Ximing Wu
Ph.D. University
of California, Berkeley, 2003
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural
Economics
Texas A&M
University
2124 TAMU
College Station, TX
77843-2124
Tel: (979) 458-1355; Fax: (979)
862-1563
Email: xwu@
tamu.edu
Teaching: AGEC 636
AGEC
661
AGEC 676
RESUME
Personal
Publications
- “Calculation of Maximum Entropy Densities with
Application to Income Distribution,” Journal
of Econometrics,
115 (2003): 347-354.
- “China’s
Income Distributions, 1985-2001,” (with J. Perloff),
Review
of Economics and Statistics, 87 (2005): 763-775; featured in the Asia
Times, July 21, 2004.
- “Partially Adaptive Estimation via
Maximum Entropy Densities,” (with T. Stengos), Econometrics Journal, 8
(2005): 352-366.
- “Government
Policy Effects on Urban and Rural Income Inequality,” (with J. Perloff and A. Golan), Review of Income and Wealth,
52 (2006): 213-235.
- “Overview: Immigration, U.S. Agriculture and Policy
Reform,” the Choices, 22 (2007).
- “GMM
Estimation of Maximum Entropy Density with Interval Data,” (with J. Perloff), Journal
of Econometrics, 138
(2007): 532-546.
- “Tax
Incidence Varies Across the Price Distribution,” (with J. Perloff), Economics
Letters, 96, 93-99, 2007.
- “On the Use of Cheap Talk in New Product Valuation,”
(with R. Brummett and R. Nayga),
Economics
Bulletin, 2, 1-9, 2007.
- “The Effect of Food Away from Home and Food at Home
Expenditures on Obesity Rates: A State Level Analysis”, (with Y. Cai, P. Alviola and R.M. Nayga), Journal
of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 40(2), 507-521, 2008.
- “Climate Change and Future Risk: Is Stationarity Dying?” (with B., McCarl
and X. Villavicencio), American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, 90 (5), 1241-1247, 2008.
- “Should Students be Used as Subjects in Experimental
Auctions?” (with R. Nayga, D. Depositario and T. Laude), Economics Letters,
102(2), 122-124, 2009.
- “Effects
of information on consumers' willingness to pay for golden rice.” (with D.
Depositario, R. Nayga,
and T. Laude), Asian Economic Journal, 23(4):457-476, 2009.
- “Comparing
Open-ended Choice Experiment and Experimental Auctions: An Application to
Golden Rice,” (with J. Corrigan, R. Nayga, D. Depositario, and T. Laude), American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 91(3), 837-853, 2009.
- “Exponential Series Estimation of
Empirical Copulas with Application to Financial Returns,” (with C. Chui), Advances in Econometrics, Vol.25:
Nonparametric Methods, 2009.
- “The Joint Evolution of the Conditional
Joint Distribution of Life Expectancy and Per Capita Income Growth,” (with
T. Stengos and B. Thompson), Advances in Econometrics, Vol.25:
Nonparametric Methods, 2009.
- “A
Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator with a Data-driven Weight,”
Entropy, 11(4), 917-930,
2009.
- “Information
Theoretic Distribution Tests with Applications to Normality,” (with T. Stengos), Econometric
Reviews, 29(3), 307-369, 2010.
- “Exponential
Series Estimator of Multivariate Densities,” Journal of Econometrics, 156, 354-366, 2010.
- “Maximum
Entropy Approximations for Asymptotic Distributions of Smooth Functions of
Sample Means,” (with S. Wang), Scandinavian
Journal of Statistics, 38, 130-146, 2011.
- “Obesity and
Moral Hazard in Demands for Visits to Physicians,” (with G. Gustavsen and R. Nayga), Contemporary Economic Policy,
29, 620-633, 2011.
- “Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases: An
Economic Impact Analysis of Malaria in Africa.” (with
Egbendewe-Mondzozo A., Musumba
M., and McCarl B.A.) International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8(3),
913-930, 2011.
Working Papers
Software
- Matlab code for univariate
maximum entropy density estimation (for details, see “Calculation of
Maximum Entropy Densities with Application to Income Distribution,” Journal of Econometrics, 115 (2003): 347-354)
- Matlab code for univariate
maximum entropy density estimation based on interval data (for details,
see “GMM Estimation of Maximum Entropy Density with Interval Data,”
Journal of Econometrics, 138 (2007): 532-546)
- Matlab code for bivariate variable entropy density
estimation (for details, see “Exponential
Series Estimator of Multivariate Densities,” Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming)
- Matlab code for Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME)
linear regressions (for details, see Maximum
Entropy Econometrics: Robust Estimation with Limited Data by Golan,
Judge, and Miller, 1996)
- Matlab code for weighted GME linear regression
with data-driven weight (for details, see “A
Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator with a Data-driven Weight,”
Entropy, 11(4), 917-930,
2009)
More information related to
information-theoretic methods can be found at Info-Metrics
Institute web resource page