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
CV: PDF
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), forthcoming, Review
of Income and Wealth.
- “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 Analysis: 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), 102(2), 102-104, Economics Letters.
- “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.24:
Nonparametric Methods, forthcoming (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.24:
Nonparametric Methods, forthcoming (2009).
- “Information
Theoretic Distribution Tests with Applications to Normality,” (with T.
Stengos), Econometric
Reviews, 29(3), 307-369, 2010.
- “A
Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator with a Data-driven Weight,”
Entropy, 11(4), 917-930,
2009.
- “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.
- “Detecting Statistical Abnormality by Combining Benford’s Law and Panel Data Models.” Statistical
Research (in Chinese), 2012.
- “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.
- “Climate
Change Influences on Agricultural Research Productivity,” (with X.
Villavicencio, B. McCarl, and W. Huffman), Climatic
Change, forthcoming.
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