“Top econometrician, Professor Yingyao Hu from Johns Hopkins University, joins Mingde Economic Research Inc. as academic affiliate” January 9th.
January 9, 2018 – Beijing, PRC – Mingde Economic Research Inc., a Chinese economic consulting firm, is proud to welcome Professor Yingyao Hu, a distinguished expert and a world-renowned econometrician, as an Academic Affiliate to the firm.
Dr. Yingyao Hu is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include econometrics, empirical industrial organization, and labor economics. Particularly, Hu’s research focuses on the nonparametric identification and estimation of measurement error models, mixture models, panel data model with fixed effects or unobserved covariates, and, generally, microeconomic models with latent variables. In empirical industrial organization, he works on unobserved heterogeneity in auction models, dynamic models with unobserved state variables, belief updating in learning models, estimation of production functions, and dynamic discrete choice with subjective belief. In labor economics, he investigates the impact of hurricanes on the fertility on the east coast of the United States, re-estimates the US unemployment rates after correcting the self-reporting errors in the Current Population Survey, and provides reliable estimates of China’s unemployment rates in a long period.
Hu has published in many leading journals in economics and statistics, such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Journal of the American Statistical Association. Hu is fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and has been involved in many professional activities, including serving on the editorial boards of several academic journals.
“Professor Hu has an incredible depth of expertise. He is one of the world’s most well-known econometrician,” said Managing Director Wei Tan. “We are very excited that he is affiliating with us, and we look forward to more collaboration with Professor Hu on a variety of complex and important cases.”
About Mingde:
Mingde Economic Research Inc. offers economic analysis services with a focus on competition issues. We cover the entire range of analyses relevant to complex competition matters, in the fields of merger, unilateral conduct, and restrictive agreements.