Yuan Liao

Selected Publications

Dynamic heterogeneous distribution regression panel models, with an application to labor income processes

We consider estimation of a dynamic distribution regression panel data model with heterogeneous coefficients across units. […]

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Wayne Yuan Gao, Yuan Liao, Francis Vella
8 April 2022 | CWP10/22
Desperate times call for desperate measures: government spending multipliers in hard times

We investigate state-dependent effects of fiscal multipliers and allow for endogenous sample splitting to determine whether […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo, Youngki Shin
24 June 2020 | CWP29/20
Sparse HP filter: Finding kinks in the COVID-19 contact rate

In this paper, we estimate the time-varying COVID-19 contact rate of a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model. Our […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo, Youngki Shin
24 June 2020 | CWP32/20
Inference for heterogeneous effects using low-rank estimations

We study a panel data model with general heterogeneous effects, where slopes are allowed to be […]

Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Yuan Liao, Yinchu Zhu
12 June 2019 | CWP31/19
A lava attack on the recovery of sums of dense and sparse signals

Common high-dimensional methods for prediction rely on having either a sparse signal model, a model in […]

Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Yuan Liao
22 September 2015 | CWP56/15

Previous version

A lava attack on the recovery of sums of dense and sparse signals
Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Yuan Liao
13 February 2015 | CWP05/15
A lava attack on the recovery of sums of dense and sparse signals

Common high-dimensional methods for prediction rely on having either a sparse signal model, a model in […]

Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Yuan Liao
13 February 2015 | CWP05/15

Latest version

A lava attack on the recovery of sums of dense and sparse signals
Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Yuan Liao
22 September 2015 | CWP56/15