Xiaodong Liu

Professor of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder

Research Interests: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Email: xiaodong.liu[at]colorado.edu

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Selected Publications

Hyunseok Jung and Xiaodong Liu (2026). Testing for Peer Effects without Specifying the Network Structure, Journal of Econometrics, 253, 106124. (paper, appendix)
Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael König and Xiaodong Liu (2025). Endogenous Technology Spillovers in R&D Collaboration Networks, The RAND Journal of Economics. (working paper version)
Xiaodong Liu and Ingmar R. Prucha (2025). On Testing for Spatial or Social Network Dependence in Panel Data Allowing for Network Variability, Journal of Econometrics, 247, 105925. (working paper version)
Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael König and Xiaodong Liu (2022). A Structural Model for the Coevolution of Networks and Behavior, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 104, 355-367. (working paper version)
Lung-Fei Lee, Xiaodong Liu, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou (2021). Who is the Key Player? A Network Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 39, 849-857. (working paper version)
Michael König, Xiaodong Liu and Yves Zenou (2019). R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implications, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 101, 476-491. (paper, appendix)
Xiaodong Liu and Ingmar R. Prucha (2018). A Robust Test for Network Generated Dependence, Journal of Econometrics, 207, 92-113. (paper, appendix)
Ethan Cohen-Cole, Xiaodong Liu and Yves Zenou (2018). Multivariate Choices and Identification of Social Interactions, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 33, 165-178. (paper, appendix)
William Horrace, Xiaodong Liu and Eleonora Patacchini (2016). Endogenous Network Production Functions with Selectivity, Journal of Econometrics, 190, 222-232. (working paper version)
Xiaodong Liu (2014). Identification and Efficient Estimation of Simultaneous Equations Network Models, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 32, 516-536. (working paper version)
Xiaodong Liu, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou (2014). Endogenous Peer Effects: Local Aggregate or Local Average?, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 103, 39-59. (working paper version)
Xiaodong Liu, John H. Kagel and Lung-Fei Lee (2012). Learning from Peers in Signaling Game Experiments, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27, 1037-1058. (paper, appendix)
Lung-Fei Lee, Xiaodong Liu and Xu Lin (2010). Specification and Estimation of Social Interaction Models with Network Structures, The Econometrics Journal, 13, 145-176. (working paper version)
Lung-Fei Lee and Xiaodong Liu (2010). Efficient GMM Estimation of High Order Spatial Autoregressive Models with Autoregressive Disturbances, Econometric Theory, 26, 187-230. (working paper version)
Xiaodong Liu, Lung-Fei Lee and Christopher R. Bollinger (2010). An Efficient GMM Estimator of Spatial Autoregressive Models, Journal of Econometrics, 159, 303-319. (working paper version)
Xiaodong Liu and Lung-Fei Lee (2010). GMM Estimation of Social Interaction Models with Centrality, Journal of Econometrics, 159, 99-115. (working paper version)

Working Papers

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael König, Xiaodong Liu and Christian Zimmermann (2025). Collaboration in Bipartite Networks. R&R, AEJ: Microeconomics.
Xiaodong Liu and Erhao Xie (2025). A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Social Interactions. R&R, International Economic Review.
Zhongjian Lin, Xiaodong Liu and Ning N. Yu (2024). Ordered Discrete Choices with Hoberogeneous Peer Effects.

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