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Yulong Wang

Yulong Wang

Contact Information:

ywang402@syr.edu

On leave AY24-25

Office Hours:

By Appointment

Yulong Wang

Associate Professor, Economics Department


Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Courses

  • 2024 Spring
    • ECN 622 Econometrics II
  • 2023 Fall
    • ECN 522 Econometric Methods
    • ECN 422 Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics
  • 2023 Spring
    • ECN 522 Econometric Methods
    • ECN 622 Econometrics II
  • 2022 Fall
    • ECN 522 Econometric Methods
    • ECN 422 Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics
  • 2022 Spring
    • ECN 522 Econometric Methods
    • ECN 622 Econometrics II

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2017

Bio

Yulong Wang is an associate professor of economics in the Maxwell School and a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research. Before joining Syracuse University, Wang earned a B.A. at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

His current research focuses on designing new econometric tools in the non-standard instances when the classic asymptotically Gaussian framework fails to provide good performance. These tools are strongly motivated by empirical applications. Leading examples include estimating the location of the tipping point in social segregation, determining metropolitan areas based on nighttime light intensity, inference about winner’s properties in auctions, and studying the cost of extreme events such as natural disasters. 

Areas of Expertise

Econometrics, applied econometrics

Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles
    • Wang, Y., Lee, J. H., Sasaki, Y. and Toda, A. A., "Tuning Parameter-free Nonparametric Density Estimation from Tabulated Summary Data." Journal of Econometrics, 2024.
    • Wang, Y., Sasaki, Y., "Diagnostic Testing of Finite Moment Conditions for the Consistency and the Root-N Asymptotic Normality of the GMM and M Estimators." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2023.
    • Wang, Y., Horrace, W. C., "Nonparametric Tests of Tail Behavior in Stochastic Frontier Models." Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022.
    • Wang, Y., "Testing for Homogeneous Thresholds in Threshold Regression Models." Econometric Theory, 2022.
    • Wang, Y., Lee, Y., "Threshold Regression with Nonparametric Sample Splitting." Journal of Econometrics, 2022.
    • Wang, Y., Toda, A. A., "Efficient Minimum Distance Estimation of Pareto Exponent from Top Income Shares." Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021.
    • Wang, Y., Xiao, Z., "Estimation and Inference about Tail Features with Tail Censored Data." Journal of Econometrics, 2021.
    • Wang, Y., Sasaki, Y., "Fixed-k Inference for Conditional Extremal Quantiles." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2021.
    • Wang, Y., Müller, U. K., "Nearly Weighted Risk Minimal Unbiased Estimation." Journal of Econometrics, 2019.

Presentations and Events

Southern Economic Association’s Annual Meeting (November, 2024)

University of Toronto (October, 2024)

NBER-NSF Time Series Conference at UPenn (September, 2024)

University of Georgia (September, 2024)

University of Pennsylvania (September, 2024)

University of Washington (September, 2024)

European meeting of Econometric Society in Rotterdam (August, 2024)

Joint Conference on Statistics and Data Science (July, 2024)

IAAE Annual Conference in Greece (June, 2024)

New York Camp Econometrics (April, 2024)

Institute of Economics Academia Sinica (March, 2024)

John Hopkins University (March, 2024)

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2023 - 2023)

University of Pennsylvania (2023 - 2023)

University of Southern California (2023 - 2023)

Hong Kong University (2023 - 2023)

University of Arkansas (2023 - 2023)

Rutgers University (2023 - 2023)

City University of New York Baruch College (2023 - 2023)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2023 - 2023)

ETH Zurich (2023 - 2023)

Boston College (2023 - 2023)

University of California Los Angeles (2023 - 2023)

Africa Meeting of Econometric Society in Nairobi (2023 - 2023)

Annual Health Econometrics Workshop at USC (2023 - 2023)

Asian Meeting of Econometric Society in Beijing (2023 - 2023)

CPR Econometrics Workshop (2023 - 2023)

Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics in Cagliari (2023 - 2023)

NY Econometrics Camp (2023 - 2023)

Southern Economic Association’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans (2023 - 2023)

Vanderbilt, Pittsburgh, CU Boulder, NY Econometrics Camp, IAAE Annual Conference in London, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society in China (virtual), Conference of Econometrics and Mathematic Economics at Duke, Annual Health Econometrics Workshop at Emory, Southern Economic Association’s Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale (2022)

Bologna, UIUC, MGIMO conference on Applied Research in Labor Economics and Human Capital (virtual), CEBA talk (virtual), North America Productivity Workshop (virtual), CPR Econometrics Workshop (virtual), NY Econometrics Camp (virtual), China Meeting of Econometric Society (virtual), Peking University (virtual) (2021)

Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting (2020)

Boston College, Penn State, UC Davis, Hong Kong University, Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University, UPenn, Rutgers, North American Summer Meeting of Econometric Society at UWashington, Conference of Econometrics and Mathematic Economics at UCLA, Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting at Ohio State University, Greater NY Metropolitan Area Econometrics Colloquium at UPenn (2019)

Honors and Accolades

Appleby-Mosher Fund, Syracuse University (2018 - 2019)

Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University (2012 - 2017)

Graduate Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles (2010 - 2012)

Dissertation with honor, Tsinghua University (2010)