Yutao SUN -- Faculty -- IAER

Yutao SUN Associate Professor Email: yutao.sun@dufe.edu.cn Office: Room I-220, Boxue Building Office Hour: TBD CV: Yutao_SUN

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Dr. Yutao SUN is an associate professor of Economics at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. His research focuses on econometric theory: panel data, network data, maximum likelihood models, quantile regressions, large-sample theory (JEL: C31, C33). He worked as a postdoc researcher in Erasmus University Rotterdam before joining IAER.

Dr. Sun is eligible to take PhD students. Students who apply to a PhD program with him are expected to meet the following criteria.
i) Have a solid background in statistics and/or econometrics (in the directions of asymptotic statistics, empirical process, and/or other theoretical econometric sub fields).
ii) Have good programming skills (in languages of Matlab, Stata/Mata, and/or others) and good general computer skills.
iii) Have good English skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking).
Ph.D. in Economics, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2016
M.Sc. in Economics, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2012
B.A. in Economics, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, 2009
Econometric theory: Panel data, econometrics of networks, bias correction methods
Papers
1. Sun, Y., and Xia, B.S. (2016) The Scholarly Communication of Economic Knowledge: A Citation Analysis of Google Scholar, Scientometrics, 109(3), 1965-1978.
2. Sun, Y. and Dhaene, G. (2019), xtspj: A command for split-panel jackknife estimation. Stata Journal, 19(2), 335-374.
3. Dhaene, G. and Sun, Y. (2021), Second-order Corrected Likelihood for Nonlinear Panel Models with Fixed Effects. Journal of Econometrics, 220(2): 227-252.