Ximing Wu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003

Assistant Professor

Department of Agricultural Economics

Texas A&M University

2124 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-2124

Tel: (979) 845-6322; Fax: (979) 862-1563

Email: xwu@ag.tamu.edu

Teaching: AGEC 317

AGEC 637

AGEC 661

AGEC 695

Curriculum Vitae

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(2008): forthcoming.
• “Climate Change, Variability and Future Risk Management,” (with B., McCarl and X. Villavicencio), accepted, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• “Exponential Series Estimation of Empirical Copulas with Application to Financial Returns,” (with C. Chui), accepted, Advances in Econometrics, Vol.24: 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), accepted, Advances in Econometrics, Vol.24: Nonparametric Methods, 2009.

Working Papers

• “Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health,” (with A. Savvides and T. Stengos), submitted.
• “Exponential Series Estimator of Multivariate Densities,” submitted.
• “Information-Theoretic Asymptotic Approximations,” (with S. Wang), revised and resubmitted.
• “Intensive and Extensive Poverty: A Multidimensional Formulation,” working paper.
• “Inference and Density Estimation with Interval Statistics,” working paper.
• “Information Theoretic Distribution Tests with Applications to Normality,” revised and resubmitted.

• “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, 2006.

Professional Service

• Editorial Board, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006 – present
• Guest editor, the Choices, special theme on immigration’s impact on U.S. agriculture, 2006
• Program committee, Canadian Econometrics Study Group Annual Meeting, 2006

Conference Presentations

• Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Meeting at Cincinnati, 2006
• Econometric Society Summer Meeting at Minneapolis, 2006
• Texas Camp Econometrics XI at Huntsville, 2006
• Econometrics Society Winter Meeting at Boston, 2006
• Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Meeting at Carbondale, 2005
• Canadian Econometrics Study Group Annual Meeting at Vancouver, 2005
• Econometrics Society Winter Meeting at Philadelphia, 2005
• Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Meeting at Chicago, 2004
• Canadian Econometrics Study Group Annual Meeting at Toronto, 2004
• European Economic Association Annual Meeting at Madrid, Spain, 2004
• American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting at Denver, Colorado, 2004
• Econometrics Society Summer Meeting at Providence, Rhode Island, 2004
• Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting at Toronto, 2004
• Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Meeting at Columbia, Missouri, 2003
• Canadian Econometrics Study Group Annual Meeting at Hamilton, Ontario, 2003
• American Economic Association Annual Meeting at Atlanta, Georgia, 2002

Grants

• Canada Foundation of Innovation New Opportunity Fund, 2005, $70,533 (with M. Plesca, co-applicant)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Research Grant, 2004-2006, $45,250
• University of Guelph URA Grant, 2004, $5,000
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council Research and Conference Travel Grant, 2003, $1,000

Referee Experience

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Bernoulli

Econometric Reviews

Econometrics Journal

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Journal of the Asian Pacific Economy

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Journal of Econometrics

Journal of Public Economics

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Risk Magazine

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