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@ag.tamu.edu

 

Teaching:        AGEC 636

                        AGEC 637

AGEC 661

                        AGEC 676

 

CV: PDF, HTML

 

Personal: photo 1, photo 2

 

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, Variability and Future Risk Management,” (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, forthcoming.
  17. A Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator with a Data-driven Weight,” Entropy, forthcoming.
  18. Exponential Series Estimator of Multivariate Densities,” Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

 

 

Working Papers