Xiaodong Liu

Professor of Economics

University of Colorado Boulder 

Email: xiaodong.liu [at] colorado.edu

Research Interests

Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Selected Publications  [Complete List]  [Google Scholar]

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael Kӧnig and Xiaodong Liu (2024) “Endogenous Technology Spillovers in R&D Collaboration Networks”, accepted, The RAND Journal of Economics. (working paper version)

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael Kӧnig 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 Kӧnig, Xiaodong Liu and Yves Zenou (2019) “R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implications”, The Review of Economics and Statistics 101, 476-491. (paper and appendix)

Xiaodong Liu and Ingmar R. Prucha (2018) “A Robust Test for Network Generated Dependence”, Journal of Econometrics 207, 92-113. (paper and 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 and appendix)

Xiaodong Liu (2017) “Identification of Peer Effects via a Root Estimator”, Economics Letters 156, 168-171. (paper and 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 and 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)

Selected Working Papers

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael Kӧnig, Xiaodong Liu and Christian Zimmermann (2023) “Collaboration in Bipartite Networks”.

Xiaodong Liu and Ingmar R. Prucha (2023) “On Testing for Spatial or Social Network Dependence in Panel Data Allowing for Network Variability”.

Hyunseok Jung and Xiaodong Liu (2023) “Testing for Peer Effects without Specifying the Network Structure”.

Teaching

Econ 8838 - Advanced Econometrics II (2nd-year Ph.D.) course website

Econ 8828 - Advanced Econometrics I (2nd-year Ph.D.) course website

Econ 7828 - Econometrics (1st-year Ph.D.) course website

Econ 4818 - Introductory Econometrics (Undergraduate) course website

Econ 3818 - Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications (Undergraduate) course website