Yingyao Hu           胡颖尧 

Assistant Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2003

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

Department of Economics

Johns Hopkins University

440 Mergenthaler Hall

3400 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21218

 

Office: 461 Mergenthaler Hall

Tel: 410-516-7610

Fax: 410-516-7600

Email: yhu @ jhu . edu

Web: http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/hu/

Research Interests

Micro-econometrics and its applications in industrial organization and labor economics.

Measurement error models, Latent variable models, Nonparametric identification.

 

Working Papers

Well-posedness of measurement error models for self-reported data (with Yonghong An). Working Paper #556, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Submitted.

 

Nonparametric identification of auction models with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity (with David McAdams and Matthew Shum). Working Paper #553, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Submitted

 

Identifying dynamic games with serially-correlated unobservables (with Matthew Shum). Working Paper #546, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Comments welcome.

 

Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables and Supplementary material (with Matthew Shum), Working Paper #543, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Cemmap Working Paper CWP13/08. Revise and resubmit at Econometrica.

 

Estimating first-price auctions with unknown number of bidders: a misclassification approach (with Yonghong An and Matthew Shum), Working Paper #541, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Econometrics.

 

Returns to lying? Identifying the effects of misreporting when the truth is unobserved (with Arthur Lewbel), Working Paper #540, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Submitted.

 

Estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured regressors using marginal information (with Geert Ridder). Working Paper #554, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Submitted.

  

Work in Progress

Identification and estimation of U.S. unemployment rates using misclassified survey data (with Shuaizhang Feng)

 

Estimating dynamic models with unobserved state variables (with Matthew Shum)

 

Instrumental variable estimation of nonlinear models with nonclassical measurement error using control variates (with Jinyong Hahn and Geert Ridder)

  

Structural estimation of price clearinghouse models using online price data (with Yonghong An, Michael Baye, John Morgan and Matthew Shum)

 

Nonparametric identification of the classical errors-in-variables model without side information (with Susanne Schennach)

 

Semiparametric sieve estimation of production functions  (with Fabiano Schivardi and Matthew Shum)

 

Publications

Bounding the effect of a dichotomous regressor with arbitrary measurement errors (with P. Deng), Economics Letters, forthcoming.

 

Identification and estimation of nonlinear models using two samples with nonclassical measurement errors (with Raymond Carroll and Xiaohong Chen), Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, forthcoming.

 

The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births (with Rick Evans and Zhong Zhao), Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.

 

On deconvolution as a first stage nonparametric estimator (with Geert Ridder), Econometric Reviews, vol. 29, issue 4.

 

Nonparametric identification and estimation of nonclassical errors-in-variables models without additional information and Supplementary material  (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Statistica Sinica, 19 (2009), pages 949-968.

 

Nonparametric identification of regression models containing a misclassified dichotomous regressor without instruments (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Economics Letters, vol. 100 (2008), Issue 3, pages 381-384

 

A note on the closed-form identification of regression models with a mismeasured binary regressor (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 78 (2008), issue 12, pages 1473-1479.

 

Identification and estimation of nonlinear models with misclassification error using instrumental variables: a general solution, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 144 (2008), issue 1, pages 27-61.

 

Instrumental variable treatment of nonclassical measurement error models and Supplementary material (with Susanne Schennach), Econometrica, vol. 76, No. 1 (2008), pages 195–216.

 

Bounding parameters in a linear regression model with a mismeasured regressor using additional information, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 133 (2006), issue 1, pages 51-70.

 

Is area yield insurance competitive with farm yield insurance? (with Barry Barnett, Roy Black, and Jerry Skees) Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 30 (2005), no. 2, pages 285-301.

 

Cooperatives and capital markets: the case of Minnesota-Dakota sugar beet cooperatives, (with Roy Black and Barry Barnett) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 81 (1999), no. 5, proceedings issue, pages 1240-1246.

 

Teaching

Spring 2010: Econometrics (180.633), Micro-econometrics II (180.638)

 

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