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GUONING YANG
Department of Economics
Indiana University, Bloomington

Address: Wylie Hall 310, 100 S. Woodlawn, Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812-855-5896
E-mail: guoyang@indiana.edu

• Curriculum Vitae
• Job Market Paper
• The Second Essay of Dissertation
• Teaching Statement
• Research Statement
• Teaching Evaluation
  • Spring 2007 (Section 9205, Section 9206, Section 9207)
  • Fall 2006 (Section 15713, Section 15714, Section 22708)

• Indiana University, Bloomington, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2003-Present.
• Indiana University, Indianapolis, Department of Economics, M.A., 2001-2003.
• Beijing Institute of Technology, College of Management and Economics, International Trade, B.S., 1994.

Completed Work

Firm Heterogeneities, Click-through Fees and Pricing in Oligopoly: Theory and Evidence (Job Market Paper, to be submitted to Rand Journal of Economics soon)
studies the asymmetric pricing of heterogeneous firms and addresses the biased competitiveness caused by non-competing firms.
Stata Code to generate empirical distribution functions when number of competing firms changes; SAS Code to run the two-step GMM estimation.

Asymmetric Pricing across Channels (Dissertation Essay II, under review at Management Science)
models competition among sellers using different channels that have different customer compositions.

Market Penetration in Price Comparison Industry (with Ian McCathy)

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Working Paper

Efficient GMM Estimation Based on Distribution Function: Property and Application (Dissertation Essay III, to be submitted to Journal of Applied Econometrics)
introduces a consistent Efficient GMM estimator based on distribution function and studies its asymptotic distribution as well as finite-sample performance.
WinBUGS Code for Bayesian estimation of consumer search online using simulated prices. Matlab Code: GMMcost, objcost to simulate the estimation of search model; GMMLall, objLall to simulate the estimation of linear regression model.

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Work in Progress

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Consumer Search and Oligopoly Pricing in Internet Markets (with Matthijs Wildenbeest)

Estimation of Search Costs in Market with Heterogeneous Firms

Estimation of Entry and Exit at Price Comparison Site

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Teaching Experience

• Associate Instructor: E201: Introduction to Microeconomics, Spring 2006, Fall 2007.
• Associate Instructor: E370: Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005, Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008.
• Graduate Assistant: E370: Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.

Useful Links

• Economics
• EconPhD: An interesting website with lots of good lecture notes.
• JSTOR, ScienceDirect, IDEAS: Databases of scholar journals and papers.
• NBER, IMF, CEPR, IGIER: Working paper series.
• American Economic Association(AEA), American Finance Association(AFA).
  more...
  
• Price Comaprison and Online Traffic
• Next Generation Shopping: The future of online shopping.
• Alexa: Online traffic and ranking.
• Ben's Bargains Deals! Deals!
• Scientific Workplace
• Google


• Other sites
• CChere: My favorite Chinese BBS, "Economics and Management".
• Zhou Enlai: The man I respect the most.
• Dice Wars: An interesting flash game.

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