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Wayne Yuan Gao

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

Assistant Professor of Economics

Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science

133 South 36th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297

United States

http://www.waynegao.com

  • University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Identification of Semiparametric Panel Multinomial Choice Models with Infinite-Dimensional Fixed Effects

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 12 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2026
Wayne Yuan Gao and Ming Li
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Economics
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semiparametric estimation, panel multinomial choice, nonparametric unobserved heterogeneity, nonseparability, multivariate monotonicity

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Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information

Number of pages: 105 Posted: 13 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2021
Attila Ambrus, Wayne Yuan Gao and Pau Milan
Duke University - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Barcelona School of Economics
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Social Network, Risk Sharing, Pareto Efficiency, Local Information

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How Flexible is that Functional Form? Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Theories

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2023
Drew Fudenberg, Wayne Yuan Gao and Annie Liang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Northwestern University
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model flexibility, parsimony, synthetic data, behavioral and experimental economics

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Estimating Production Functions with Partially Latent Inputs

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Estimating Production Functions with Partially Latent Inputs

PIER Working Paper No. 21-003
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2021
Minji Bang, Wayne Yuan Gao, Andrew Postlewaite and Holger Sieg
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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production functions, latent variables, endogeneity, semiparametric estimation, instrumental variables, matching

Using Monotonicity Restrictions to Identify Models with Partially Latent Covariates

NBER Working Paper No. w28436
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Minji Bang, Andrew Postlewaite, Wayne Yuan Gao and Holger Sieg
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Estimating Production Functions with Partially Latent Inputs

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2021
Minji Bang, Wayne Yuan Gao, Andrew Postlewaite and Holger Sieg
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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production functions, latent variables, endogeneity, semiparametric estimation, instrumental variables, matching

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Structural Inference from Reduced Forms with Many Instruments

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2062
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Dec 2016
Peter C. B. Phillips and Wayne Yuan Gao
University of Auckland Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Exact distributions, Partial identification, Partially restricted reduced form, Structural inference, Unidentified structure, Weak reduced form

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Minimax Linear Estimation at a Boundary Point

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2017
Wayne Yuan Gao
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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minimax linear estimation, modulus problem, boundary point, regression discontinuity

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Tractable Identification of Strategic Network Formation Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 02 May 2026
Ming Li, Wayne Yuan Gao and Zhengyan Xu
National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania
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Network Formation, Strategic Interaction, Fixed Effects, Partial Identification, Endogeneity, Tetrad, Triad, Subnetwork

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Logical Differencing in Dyadic Network Formation Models with Nontransferable Utilities

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Mar 2026
Ming Li, Wayne Yuan Gao and Sheng Xu
National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Yale University
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network formation, non-transferrable utilities, semiparametric estimation