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

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), Review of Income and Wealth, 52 (2006): 213-235.
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 Risk: 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), Economics Letters, 102(2), 122-124, 2009.
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.25: Nonparametric Methods, 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.25: Nonparametric Methods, 2009.
16. “A Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator with a Data-driven Weight,” Entropy, 11(4), 917-930, 2009.
17. “Information Theoretic Distribution Tests with Applications to Normality,” (with T. Stengos), Econometric Reviews, 29(3), 307-369, 2010.
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.

Working Papers

• “A Transformation-based Nonparametric Estimator of Multivariate Densities with an Application to Global Financial Markets,” (with M. Chang)
• “Penalized Exponential Series Estimation of Copula Densities”
• “A Nonparametric Study of Dependence Between S&P 500 Index and Market Volatility Index (VIX) ,” (with Y. Sun), submitted.
• “Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health,” (with A. Savvides and T. Stengos), submitted.
• “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