2003年毕业于霍普金斯大学经济系，现任该系助理教授。

http://econ.jhu.edu/People/Hu/

Research Interests

Micro-econometrics and its applications, Measurement error models, Latent variable models, Identification.

Working Papers

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 (with Matthew Shum), Working Paper #543, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Cemmap Working Paper CWP13/08. Revise and resubmit at Econometrica.

Bounding the effect of a dichotomous regressor with arbitrary measurement errors (with P. Deng), available at SSRN (Social Science Research Network), Revise and resubmit at Economics Letters.

Identification and estimation of nonlinear models using two samples with nonclassical measurement errors (with Raymond Carroll and Xiaohong Chen); An old version: Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper no. 1590, Revise and resubmit at Journal of Nonparametric Statistics.

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

Estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured regressors using marginal information (with Geert Ridder), Submitted.

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

Nonparametric identification of the classical errors-in-variables model without side information (with Susanne Schennach and Arthur Lewbel), Cemmap Working Paper CWP14/07.

Work in Progress

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

Why measurement error models for self-reported data are well-posed (with Yonghong An)

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

Nonparametric estimation of auction models with unobserved heterogeneity: a general approach (with David McAdams and Matthew Shum)

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

Estimation of discontinuous regression model using interpolation nonlinear wavelet method (with Ji-Liang Shiu and Matthew Shum)

Nonparametric identification of regression models with a non-binary misspecified regressor without instruments (with Su-Hsin Chang)

Publications

On deconvolution as a first stage nonparametric estimator (with Geert Ridder), Econometric Reviews, forthcoming.

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

Nonparametric identification and estimation of nonclassical errors-in-variables models without additional information (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Statistica Sinica, forthcoming.

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 2009: Econometrics (180.633), Micro-econometrics II (180.638)