Yapeng Zheng

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Professor Zhentao Shi. I specialize in econometrics.

Research Interests: Network Formation, Peer Effects, Synthetic Control Methods, High-Dimensional Statistics

Education

Ph.D. Candidate (2023 -- present) - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Advisor: Zhentao Shi

Master, Coursework, Statistics and Finance (2021 -- 2023) - University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Bachelor, Statistics and Finance (2017 -- 2021) - University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Conferences and Presentations

2026: Econometric Society Asian Meeting (Hong Kong), Econometric Society Asian Meeting (Hanoi)
2025: CUHK brownbag (Hong Kong), SETA (Macao), ICES (Harbin), ESWC (Seoul)

Working Papers

Social Interactions Models with Latent Structures

Zhongjian Lin, Zhentao Shi, and Yapeng Zheng

2026, submitted

arXiv

Initial-Condition-Robust Inference in Autoregressive Models

Donald W. K. Andrews, Ming Li, and Yapeng Zheng

2026, submitted

arXiv

A Relaxation Approach to Synthetic Control

Chengwang Liao, Zhentao Shi, and Yapeng Zheng

2025, Revise and resubmit at Econometric Theory

arXiv

Bagging the Network

Ming Li, Zhentao Shi, and Yapeng Zheng

2025, submitted

arXiv