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 contact
information:
email: 
mailing address: Hung-Jen Wang
Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
No. 21, Hsu-Chow Rd.
Taipei 10055
Taiwan
telephone: 886-2-2351-9641 ext.667
fax:
886-2-2351-0543 attn. Hung-Jen Wang
honors and awards:
Lien
Zhen-Dong Memorial Fellowship, National Taiwan University, 2009.
National Science Council
Excellent Research Award (3-year term), 2003.
Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators, 2003,
Academia Sinica.
Wu Ta-You Memorial
Prize, 2003, National Science Council.
National Science
Council Research Award, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, September 1997, The
University
of
Michigan
.
Honor Teaching Assistant,
December 1994, April 1995 and December 1995, Department of
Economics, The
University
of
Michigan
.
Summer Research Fellowship,
May 1993, Department of Economics, The
University
of
Michigan
.
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professional activities:
Editor of October issue, Pacific Economic Review, 2007 – present.
Associate Editor, Journal
of Productivity Analysis, 2009 – present.
Co-Editor,
Academia Economic Papers, September 2006 – present.
Associate Editor,
Taiwan Economic Review, 2008 – present.
Secretary
General,
Taiwan Economic Association,
2007.
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 publications:
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“Estimating
Fixed-Effect Panel Stochastic Frontier Models by Model
Transformation”
(first
author, with Chia-Wen Ho), Journal of Econometrics, 2009,
accepted. |
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2.
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“Stochastic
Frontier Models with Errors in Variables: a GMM Approach”
(in Chinese, with Yi-Yi Chen),
Taiwan Economic Review,
2009, 37 (1), 1-22.
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3.
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“The
Cost Effects of Government-Subsidised Credit: Evidence from Farmers’ Credit Unions in
Taiwan
,” (first author, with Ching-Cheng
Chang and Po-Chi Chen), Journal of Agricultural
Economics, 2008, 59(1), pp.132–149. 
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4.
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“Identifying the Demand and Supply Effects of Financial Crises on Bank Credit--Evidence from
Taiwan,"
(first author, with Nan-Kuang
Chen), lead article in Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(1), pp.26–49.
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5.
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“The
Procyclical Leverage Effect of
Collateral Value on Bank Loans – Evidence from the Transaction
Data of Taiwan,” (with Nan-Kuang
Chen), Economic Inquiry, 2007,
45(2), pp.395–406.
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6.
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“Stochastic
Frontier Models,” invited article for The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007; forthcoming.
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7.
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“Pitfalls
in the Estimation of Cost Function Ignoring Allocative
Inefficiency: A Monte Carlo Analysis,” (first author, with Subal
C. Kumbhakar) lead article in Journal
of Econometrics, 2006, 134, pp.317-340.
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8.
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“Estimation
of Technical and Allocative
Inefficiency: A Primal System Approach,” (with Subal
C. Kumbhakar), Journal of
Econometrics, 2006, 134, pp.419-440.
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9.
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“Estimation
of Growth Convergence Using a Stochastic Production Frontier
Approach,” (first author, with Subal
C. Kumbhakar) Economics Letters,
2005, 88(3), pp.300-305.
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10.
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"A
Method of Moments Estimator for a Stochastic Frontier Model with
Errors in Variables," Economics Letters,
, 2004, 85(2), pp.221-228. (download
Stata program; updated on July 24, 2004)
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11.
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"A
Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Financing Constraints on
Investment: The Case of Financial Liberalization in
Taiwan
," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2003,
21(3), pp.406-419. (download
Stata program here; updated on Nov 4, 2005.)
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12.
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"Heteroscedasticity
and Non-Monotonic Efficiency Effects of a Stochastic Frontier
Model," Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2002, 18,
pp.241-253. (download
Stata program here; updated on Nov 4, 2005.)
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13.
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“Nominal
Data and the Production Smoothing Hypothesis,” Economics
Letters, 2002, 76(2), pp.245-50.
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14.
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"One-Step
and Two-Step Estimation of the Effects of Exogenous Variables on
Technical Efficiency Levels," (first author, with Peter
Schmidt) Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2002, 18,
pp.129-44. (download
Stata program here; updated on Nov 4, 2005.)
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15.
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“Exogenous
Cash: Testing Financing Constraints on Inventory Investment
Using Dynamic Panels with additional information from annual
reports,” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,
2001, 42(4), pp.779-802.
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16.
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“Production
Smoothing when Bank Loan Supply Shifts - The Role of Variable
Capacity Utilization,” Journal of Money, Credit, and
Banking, 2001, 33(3), pp.749-66.
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17.
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“An
Optimal Personal Bankruptcy Procedure and Proposed Reforms,”
(with Michelle White), Journal of Legal Studies, 2000,
29(1), pp.255-286.
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18.
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“Symmetrical
Information and Credit Rationing: Graphical Demonstrations,” Financial
Analysts Journal, 2000, 56 (2), pp.85-95.
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"Measuring
the Tobin's Q for Taiwanese Manufacturing Firms" (in
Chinese), Academia Economic Papers, 2000, 28(2), 149-76.
(download
Stata program here; updated on Feb 27, 2004.)
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working
papers:
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1.
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“Centered-Residuals-Based Moment Tests for Stochastic Frontier Models,” (with Ti-Ting
Chen), 2008, work in progress.
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2.
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“Does
Collateral Value Affect Business Investment?--
An Empirical Study of Taiwan,” (first author, with Nan-Kuang
Chen), 2008, under review.
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3.
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“Identifying
the Effects of Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Active
Foreign Exchange Interventions,” 2008, under review.
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4.
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“Estimating
Panel Stochastic Frontier Models with Fixed Effects by Model
Transformation,” (first author, with Chia-Wen
Ho), 2007, work in progress.
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5.
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“A
Unified Approach to the Growth Empirics,” (first author, with
Yi-Yi Chen and Hsin-Min Lu), 2006,
work in progress.
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6.
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“Family,
Uncertainty, and Precautionary Savings,” (with Cyrus Chu
and Chun-Fang Jiang), 2005,
manuscript.
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7.
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“Heterogeneity
and the Determinants of Loan Contracts - Evidence from Small
Business Finance,” (with Emily Lin), 2002, manuscript.
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