Research Interests

Microeconometrics; Industrial Organization; Applied microeconomics

 

Working Papers

5. "The Cost of Knowledge: Academic Journal Pricing and Research Dissemination", with Michael Williams and Mo Xiao. [PDF]

4. "Procurement in welfare programs: Evidence and implications from WIC infant formula contracts" (with David Davis, Yizao Liu and Ruli Xiao), submitted. [PDF]

3.  "Eliciting Information from Sensitive Survey Questions" (with Pengfei Liu), submitted. [PDF]. 

2. “Assurance Contract in Threshold Public Goods Provision with Incomplete Information" (with Zhi Li and Pengfei Liu), coming soon.  Best Poster Award at 2016 EAERE Annual Conference.

1. “Agenda Manipulation and Policymaking under Media Bias” (with Weining Bao and Jian Ni). [PDF]

Selected Publications 

11. "A Structural Analysis of Simple Contracts" (with Shengjie Hong and Daiqiang Zhang), Journal of Econometrics, 236 (2023), 105456. [PDF]

10. “A Nonparametric Non-classical Measurement Error Approach to Estimating Intergenerational Mobility Elasticities” (with Le Wang and Ruli Xiao), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 40 (2022), 169-185. [PDF][Online Appendix]

9. "Dynamic Decisions under Subjective Expectations: A Structural Analysis" (with Yingyao Hu and Ruli Xiao), Journal of Econometrics, 222(2021), 645-675.  [PDF]

8. "Dynamic Efficiencies of the 1997 Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger" (with Wei Zhao), RAND Journal of Economics, 50 (Fall 2019), 666-694.  [PDF] [Online appendix]

7. “Specification and Negotiation in Incomplete Contracts" (with Xun Tang), RAND Journal of Economics, 50 (Spring 2019), 57-92. [PDF] [Online Appendix]

6. “Estimating Private Provision of Public Goods with Heterogenous Participants: A Structural Analysis" (with Yingyao Hu and Pengfei Liu),  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 152 (2018), 124-146.  [PDF]

5. “Identification of First-Price Auctions with Non-Equilibrium Beliefs: A Measurement Error Approach”, Journal of Econometrics, 200 (2017), 326-343. [PDF]  [Online Appendix]

4. "Identifying Models of Committee Decisions with Heterogeneous Tastes and Ideological Bias" (with Xun Tang), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 35(2017), 452-469.  [PDF]

3. "Identification and Estimation of Online Price Competition with an Unknown Number of Firms" (with Michael R. Baye, Yingyao Hu, John Morgan and Matt Shum), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 32(2017), 80-102.  [PDF] [ Supplementary Material] 

2. “Well-posedness on Measurement Error Models for Self-Reported Data”(with Yingyao Hu), Journal of Econometrics, 168(2012), 259-269. [PDF]

1. “Estimating First-price Auctions with an Unknown Number of Bidders: A Misclassification Approach” (with Yingyao Hu and Matt Shum), Journal of Econometrics, 157(2010), 328-341. [PDF]


Work in Progress

1.“ How Likely to Be Caught: Identification and Estimation of Strategic Misreporting" (with Shengjie Hong and Ping Qian).

2. “Dynamic Models with Unobserved State Variables and Heterogeneity: Time Inconsistency in Drug Compliance” (with Yingyao Hu and Jian Ni). 

​​ Other Publications

​1. "Counterintuitive Signs in Reduced Form Price Regressions" (with Michael A. William and Wei Zhao),  American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, Economics Committee Newsletter, 16 (2016), 7-19. [PDF]
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