RESEARCH
Publications:
- Optimization via Strategic Law of Large Numbers, with Xiaohong Chen, Zengjing Chen, Xiaodong Yan, and Guodong Zhang, accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (Direct Submission).
- Identification of Semiparametric Panel Multinomial Choice Models with Infinite-Dimensional Fixed Effects, with Ming Li, accepted for publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
- How Flexible is that Functional Form? Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Theories, with Drew Fudenberg and Annie Liang, forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics. (Extended Abstract in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2021, 497-498. Award: Exemplary Artificial Intelligence and Computation Track Paper, ACM EC'21)
- Using Monotonicity Restrictions to Identify Models with Partially Latent Covariates, with Minji Bang, Andrew Postlewaite, and Holger Sieg, Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 235(2), 892-921.
- Logical Differencing in Dyadic Network Formation Models under Non-Transferable Utilities, with Ming Li and Sheng Xu, Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 235(1), 302-324. (Award: 2025 Arnold Zellner Award for the Best Theory Paper Published in the Journal of Econometrics 2023-2024)
- Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information, with Attila Ambrus and Pau Milan, Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89(5), 2329–2380.
- Nonparametric Identification in Index Models of Link Formation, Journal of Econometrics, 2020, 215(2), 399-413. (Award: 2021 Arnold Zellner Award for the Best Theory Paper Published in the Journal of Econometrics 2019-2020)
- Minimax Linear Estimation at a Boundary Point, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2018, 165, 262-269.
- Structural Inference from Reduced Forms with Many Instruments, with Peter C.B. Phillips, Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199, 96-116.
- Informal Insurance Networks, with Eunyoung Moon, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2016, 16, 455-484.
Working Papers:
- ReLU-Based and DNN-Based Generalized Maximum Score Estimators, with Xiaohong Chen and Likang Wen.
- Inference on Welfare and Value Functionals under Optimal Treatment Assignment, with Xiaohong Chen and Zhenxiao Chen.
- Semiparametric Learning of Integral Functionals on Submanifolds, with Xiaohong Chen.
- Identification of Dynamic Nonlinear Panel Models under Partial Stationarity, with Rui Wang, revision and resubmission (2nd-round) requested by Journal of Econometrics.
- IV Regressions without Exclusion Restrictions, with Rui Wang
- Two-Stage Maximum Score Estimator, with Sheng Xu and Kan Xu
- Dynamic Heterogeneous Distribution Regression Panel Models, with an Application to Labor Income Processes, with Ivan Fernandez-Val, Yuan Liao, and Francis Vella, revision and resubmission (2nd-round) requested by Quantitative Economics.
- A Partial Order on Preference Profiles
Work in Progress:
