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First Name: Kuan
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Last Name: Xu
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RePEc Short-ID: pxu17
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Postal Address: Department of Economics Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canda B3H 3J5
Phone: 902-494-6995
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Working papers
- Kuan Xu & Zhengxi Lin, 2007.
"Participation in Employer-sponsored Training in Canada: Role of Firm Characteristics and Worker Attributes,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
paperb1_7_ic_workingpaper, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Lars Osberg & Kuan Xu, 2007.
"How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
rderevision9, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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Published as: - Daniel de Munnik & Kuan Xu, 2007.
"Micro Foundations of Price-Setting Behaviour: Evidence from Canadian Firms,"
Working Papers
07-31, Bank of Canada.
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- Yun Daisy Li & Talan B. Iscan & Kuan Xu, 2007.
"The Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Stock Prices: Evidence from Canada and the United States,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
stock_money19.pdf, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Lars Osberg & Jiaping Shao & Kuan Xu, 2007.
"The Growth of Poor Children in China 1991-2000: Why Food Subsidies May Matter,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
wider_nov_18_2007.pdf, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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Published as: - Kuan Xu, 2007.
"U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
senletters5, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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Published as: - Osberg, Lars & Xu, Kuan, 2006.
"How Should We Measure Global Poverty in a Changing World?,"
Working Papers
RP2006/64, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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- Stéphane Mussard & Kuan Xu, 2006.
"Multidimensional Decomposition of the Sen Index: Some Further Thoughts,"
Cahiers de recherche
06-08, Departement d'Economique de la Faculte d'administration à l'Universite de Sherbrooke.
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- Chang Dan & Hong Gu & Kuan Xu, 2005.
"The Impact of Hedging on Stock Return and Firm Value: New Evidence from Canadian Oil and Gas Companies,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
hedging, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Kuan Xu, 2003.
"How Has the Literature on Gini's Index Evolved in the Past 80 Years?,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
howgini, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Kuan Xu, 2002.
"Converging at the Bottom of the Income Distribution? Assimilation of Immigrant Cohorts over Time,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
ginisbgp, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Kuan Xu & Lars Osberg, 2002.
"On Sen's Approach to Poverty Measures and Recent Developments,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
sensw, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Ian Irvine & Kuan Xu, 2002.
"Crime, Punishment and Poverty in the United States,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
uspov, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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- Kuan Xu & Lars Osberg, 2000.
"The Social Welfare Implications, Decomposability, and Geometry of the Sen Family of Poverty Indices,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
sendeco, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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Published as: - Xu, K. & Osberg, L., 1999.
"An Anatomy of the Sen and Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Indices: Multiplicative Decomposability and its Subgroup Decompositions,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
99-05, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
- Lars Osberg & Kuan Xu, 1998.
"Poverty Intensity - How Well Does Canada Compare?,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
canpov, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
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Other versions: - Osberg, L & Xu, K, 1997.
"International Comparisons of Poverty Intensity : Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
97-03, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
- Xu, K. & Osberg, L., 1995.
"A Distribution-Free Test for Deprivation Dominance,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
95-06, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
Published as: - Xu, K. & Fisher, G. & Wilson, D., 1995.
"New Distribution Tests for Stochastic Dominance,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
95-02, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
- Xu, K., 1995.
"Asymptotically Distribution-Free Statistical Tests for Generalized Lorenz Curves: An ALternative Approach,"
Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive
95-01, Dalhousie, Department of Economics.
Articles
- Lars Osberg & Jiaping Shao & Kuan Xu, 2009.
"The growth of poor children in China 1991-2000: why food subsidies may matter,"
Health Economics,
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(S1), pages S89-S108.
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Other versions: - Lars Osberg & Kuan Xu, 2008.
"How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study,"
Review of Development Economics,
Blackwell Publishing, vol. 12(2), pages 419-441, 05.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Kuan Xu, 2007.
"U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures,"
Econometric Reviews,
Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 26(5), pages 567-577.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Kuan Xu & Gordon Fisher, 2006.
"Myopic loss aversion and margin of safety: the risk of value investing,"
Quantitative Finance,
Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 6(6), pages 481-494, December.
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- Kuan Xu & Lars Osberg, 2002.
"The social welfare implications, decomposability, and geometry of the Sen family of poverty indices,"
Canadian Journal of Economics,
Canadian Economics Association, vol. 35(1), pages 138-152, February.
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Other versions: - Xu, Kuan, 2000.
"Inference for Generalized Gini Indices Using the Iterated-Bootstrap Method,"
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics,
American Statistical Association, vol. 18(2), pages 223-27, April.
- Lars Osberg & Kuan Xu, 1999.
"Poverty Intensity: How Well Do Canadian Provinces Compare?,"
Canadian Public Policy,
University of Toronto Press, vol. 25(2), pages 179-195, June.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Kuan Xu & L. Osberg, 1998.
"A distribution-free test for deprivation dominance,"
Econometric Reviews,
Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 415-429.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Xu, Kuan, 1998.
"Income uncertainty, substitution effect and relative yield spreads,"
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,
Elsevier, vol. 38(2), pages 217-225.
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- Fisher, Gordon & Willson, Douglas & Xu, Kuan, 1998.
"An empirical analysis of term premiums using significance tests for stochastic dominance,"
Economics Letters,
Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 195-203, August.
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- Kryzanowski, Lawrence & Xu, Kuan, 1997.
"Long-term equilibria of yields on taxable and tax-exempt bonds,"
International Review of Economics & Finance,
Elsevier, vol. 6(2), pages 119-143.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Kuan Xu & Gordon Fisher & Douglas Willson, 1996.
"Testing First- and Second-Order Stochastic Dominance,"
Canadian Journal of Economics,
Canadian Economics Association, vol. 29(s1), pages 562-64, April.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Kryzanowski, Lawrence & Xu, Kuan & Zhang, Hua, 1995.
"Determinants of the Decreasing Term Structure of Relative Yield Spreads for Taxable and Tax-Exempt Bonds,"
Applied Economics,
Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 27(7), pages 583-90, July.
NEP Fields
9 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
- NEP-ACC: Accounting & Auditing (1) 2005-08-28
- NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2007-11-24
- NEP-BEC: Business Economics (2) 2005-08-28 2007-04-09
- NEP-CBA: Central Banking (2) 2007-05-19 2007-09-16
- NEP-CFN: Corporate Finance (1) 2005-08-28
- NEP-CNA: China (2) 2007-03-31 2007-11-24
- NEP-DEV: Development (3) 2003-07-13 2007-03-31 2007-11-24 Author is listed
- NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2003-11-23
- NEP-FIN: Finance (1) 2005-08-28
- NEP-FMK: Financial Markets (1) 2005-08-28
- NEP-HPE: History & Philosophy of Economics (1) 2003-07-13
- NEP-HRM: Human Capital & Human Resource Management (1) 2007-04-09
- NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2007-04-09
- NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty (1) 2003-11-23
- NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (2) 2007-05-19 2007-09-16
- NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2007-05-19
- NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (2) 2007-05-19 2007-09-16
- NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2003-11-23
- NEP-RMG: Risk Management (1) 2005-08-28
- NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2007-03-31
- NEP-TRA: Transition Economics (2) 2007-03-31 2007-11-24
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