Department of Economics

Curriculum Vitae  

Areas of Interest:

• Econometrics
• Industrial Organization

Recent Publications:

"Timber Sale Auctions with a Random Reserve Price," with T. Li, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

"Asymmetry in First-Price Auctions with Affiliated Private Values," with S. Campo and Q. Vuong, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.

"Semiparametric Estimation of the Optimal Reserve Price in First-Price Auctions," with T. Li and Q. Vuong, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, forthcoming.

"Structural Estimation of the Affiliated Private Value Model, "  with T. Li and Q. Vuong, Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

"Editors' Introduction,"  with C. Hsiao, Journal of Econometrics, Special Issue, Studies in Estimation and Testing, (2001), 103 (1/2), 1-4.

"Conditionally Independent Private Information in OCS Wildcat Auctions," with T. Li and Q. Vuong, Journal of Econometrics, (2000), 98(1), 129-161.

"Optimal Nonparametric Estimation of First-Price Auctions,"  with E. Guerre and Q. Vuong, Econometrica, (2000), 68, 525-574.

"Structural Econometrics of First-Price Auctions: A Survey of Methods,"  with Q. Vuong, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, (1999), 47, 203-223.

"Competition, Incentives and Productivity in Chinese Township Village Enterprises," with J. Nugent and J. Qiu, Pacific Economic Review, (1999), 4, 91-114.

Research in Progress:

• Parametric Estimation Methods for First-Price Auction Models
• Identification and Estimation of the Common Value Auction Model
• Identification and Estimation of Models with Adverse Selection
• Regulation of Water Utilities

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