Shawn Xiaoguang Ni

Office: (573) 882-6878
Fax: (573) 882-2697
E-mail: NiX@missouri.edu
Address:
Department of Economics
University of Missouri
329 Professional Building
Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA

Current Research Interests:
Bayesian econometrics; empirical studies on household consumption, energy price, education, and real estates.

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Selected Publications in Journals

" Long-Term Oil Price Forecasts: A New Perspective on Oil and the Macroeconomy" (with I. Miller).
Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming.

" Estimating Estate-Specific Price-to-Rent Ratios in Shanghai and Shenzhen" (with J. Chen).
International Real Estate Review, forthcoming.

" Selection of Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models Bayesian Stochastic Search" (with A. Loddo and D. Sun).
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, July 2011, vol. 29, pp342-355.

" Heterogeneous Investor Information and the Timing of Investment under Uncertainty" (with R. Ratti).
Economics-ejournal, November 2009.

" Bayesian Stochastic Search for VAR Model Restrictions" (with E. George and D. Sun).
Journal of Econometrics, January 2008, vol. 142, pp553-580.

" Intrinsic Bayesian estimation of VAR Impulse Responses" (with D. Sun and X. Sun).
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Apr 2007, vol. 25, pp163-176.

"High Corruption Income in Ming and Qing China" (with V. Pham).
Journal of Development Economics, 2006, vol. 81, pp316-336.

"Bayesian Estimates of Vector Autoregressive Models" (with D. Sun).
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Jan 2005, vol. 23, pp105-117.

"Price Uncertainty and Consumer Welfare in an Intertemporal Setting" (with N. Raymon).
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2004, vol.28, pp1877-1901.

"Noninformative Priors and Frequentist Risks of Bayesian Estimators of Vector-Autoregressive Models"(with D. Sun).
Journal of Econometrics, July 2003, vol. 115, pp159-197.

"On the Dynamic Effects of Oil Price Shocks - A Study Using Industry Level Data" (with K. Lee).
Journal of Monetary Economics, June 2002 pp823-852.

"National Debt, Savings, and Real Interest Rates in a Neoclassical Growth Model", (jstor)
The Canadian Journal of Economics, November 1999 pp1227-44.

"Scaling Factors in Estimation of Time-Nonseparable Utility Functions",(jstor)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1997 pp234-240.

"An Empirical Analysis of the Substitutability between Private Consumption and Government Purchases",
Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1995 vol. 36, pp593-605.

"Oil and Macroeconomy-the Role of Price Variability", (with K. Lee and R. Ratti)
The Energy Journal, December 1995 vol.16, pp39-56.

"Costly Structural Changes and Optimal Growth", (with X. Wang)
Economic Theory, June 1995 vol.6, pp305-322.