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

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Personal

Publications

1. “Calculation of Maximum Entropy Densities with Application to Income Distribution,” Journal of Econometrics, 115 (2003): 347-354.
2. “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.
3. “Partially Adaptive Estimation via Maximum Entropy Densities,” (with T. Stengos), Econometrics Journal, 8 (2005): 352-366.
4. “Government Policy Effects on Urban and Rural Income Inequality,” (with J. Perloff and A. Golan), forthcoming, Review of Income and Wealth.
5. “Overview: Immigration, U.S. Agriculture and Policy Reform,” the Choices, 22 (2007).
6. “GMM Estimation of Maximum Entropy Density with Interval Data,” (with J. Perloff), Journal of Econometrics, 138 (2007): 532-546.
7. “Tax Incidence Varies Across the Price Distribution,” (with J. Perloff), Economics Letters, 96, 93-99, 2007.
8. “On the Use of Cheap Talk in New Product Valuation,” (with R. Brummett and R. Nayga), Economics Bulletin, 2, 1-9, 2007.
9. “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.
10. “Climate Change and Future Analysis: Is Stationarity Dying?” (with B., McCarl and X. Villavicencio), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90 (5), 1241-1247, 2008.
11. “Should Students be Used as Subjects in Experimental Auctions?” (with R. Nayga, D. Depositario and T. Laude), 102(2), 102-104, Economics Letters.
12. “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.
13. “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.
14. “Exponential Series Estimation of Empirical Copulas with Application to Financial Returns,” (with C. Chui), Advances in Econometrics, Vol.24: Nonparametric Methods, forthcoming (2009).
15. “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.24: Nonparametric Methods, forthcoming (2009).
16. “Information Theoretic Distribution Tests with Applications to Normality,” (with T. Stengos), Econometric Reviews, 29(3), 307-369, 2010.
17. “A Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator with a Data-driven Weight,” Entropy, 11(4), 917-930, 2009.
18. “Exponential Series Estimator of Multivariate Densities,” Journal of Econometrics, 156: 354-366, 2010.
19. “Maximum Entropy Approximations for Asymptotic Distributions of Smooth Functions of Sample Means ,” (with S. Wang), Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 38: 130-146, 2011.
20. “Obesity and Moral Hazard in Demands for Visits to Physicians,” (with G. Gustavsen and R. Nayga), Contemporary Economic Policy, 29, 620-633, 2011.
21. “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.
22. “Detecting Statistical Abnormality by Combining Benford’s Law and Panel Data Models.” Statistical Research (in Chinese), 2012.
23. “Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health,” (with A. Savvides and T. Stengos), In J. Ma and M. Wohar, editors, Recent Advances in Estimating Nonlinear Models with Applications in Economics and Finance. Springer Books, forthcoming.
24. “Climate Change Influences on Agricultural Research Productivity,” (with X. Villavicencio, B. McCarl, and W. Huffman), Climatic Change, forthcoming.

Working Papers

• “Smooth Tests of Copula Specifications,” (with J. Lin)
• “Semiparametric Estimations under Shape Constraints” (with R. Sickles)
• “Transformation-based Nonparametric Estimator of Multivariate Densities,” (with M. Chang)
• “Intensive and Extensive Poverty: A Multidimensional Formulation,” working paper.
• “Inference and Density Estimation with Interval Statistics,” working paper.

• “Effects of Government Policies on Income Distribution and Welfare,” (with J. Perloff and A. Golan), submitted.
• “Labor Supply and Income Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Welfare Programs,” submitted.

• “Information-Theoretic Deconvolution Approximation of Treatment Effect Distribution,” (with J. Perloff), working paper.

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