Yang Xiao · Applied Economics & Quant

Dataset Catalog

Versioned data on Hugging Face; compact fixtures on GitHub.

Selected research

Eight questions, with the evidence in view.

Experiments & incentives

Who should get the offer?

The complex targeting model has not earned its advantage.

I test effect estimates against known answers, then compare spending rules at the same budget in simulated markets held out from training.

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Forecasting & information

Would the forecast work in real time?

Changing the data vintage changes which models look best.

I reconstruct official release histories and rerun forecasts with three information rules: data known then, revised values with the same availability, and unrestricted latest values.

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Trade & public policy

Who absorbed the tariff?

The evidence points toward higher costs for U.S. importers.

I compare each wave of tariffed products with never-tariffed products, tracking unit import values before and after the policy and checking three sample windows.

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