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., 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

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2023 - 2023)

Rutgers University (2023 - 2023)

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

University of Pennsylvania (2023 - 2023)

University of California Los Angeles (2023 - 2023)

Hong Kong University (2023 - 2023)

University of Arkansas (2023 - 2023)

ETH Zurich (2023 - 2023)

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

University of Southern California (2023 - 2023)

Boston College (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)