Xinhua Gu

Biographic Data

ID4197872
NAMEXinhua Gu
GIVEN NAMESXinhua
FAMILY NAMEGu
SIGNATUREGU X
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Macau
ORCID0000-0002-3974-3288
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Specialization or diversification

    Open AccessXinhua Gu, Li Sheng et al.ARTICLECities2022Cited by: 3References: 42

  • Modeling the Economic Effect of Statutory Taxation on Gaming Hospitality

    Open AccessXinhua Gu, Li Sheng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Hospitality & Tourism…2021

    This article shows that casino taxation may be welfare enhancing for gaming hospitality resorts due to their market power to export local taxes to tourist customers. The price-inelastic tourism demand for casino gambling plays an important role in such power of tax exportation. We use a mathematical programming model to derive a tax threshold, through which a specific tax can be identified to be good or bad for efficiency. The policy implication …

  • Business cycles of casino cities

    Li Sheng, Edmund Li Sheng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2021References: 2

    Applying a Markov switching model (MSM) to Las Vegas and Macao, this paper decomposes their business cycles of the casino hospitality industry into high and low growth states (HGS, LGS). Compared with Las Vegas, casino gaming in Macao is more volatile due to larger ups and downs in tourism flows, with HGS being far higher and LGS being much lower. Gaming hospitality in both travel destinations has a strong tendency to stay in HGS, but a low chanc…

  • A comparative study for determinants of gaming performance in Macao and Las Vegas

    Open AccessQiang Deng, Xinhua Gu et al.ARTICLETourism Management2020Cited by: 2References: 52

  • Local tourism cycle and external business cycle

    Open AccessXinhua Gu, Jie Wu et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2018Cited by: 2References: 31

  • Casino tourism, economic inequality, and housing bubbles

    Open AccessXinhua Gu, Guoqiang Li et al.ARTICLETourism Management2017Cited by: 5References: 27

  • As Good as Married? A Model of Premarital Cohabitation and Learning

    Padma Rao Sahib, Xinhua GuARTICLEJournal of Mathematical Sociology2013Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article develops a two-sided search-matching model with imperfectly observed types and sequential learning. We use the metaphor of premarital cohabitation and assume that it is initiated to learn more about one's prospective spouse. We show that couples match within classes and that the classes of cohabiting and married couples partially overlap. Couples are more discriminating about whom they marry than whom they cohabit with. We demonstrat…

  • The Impacts of Gaming Expansion on Economic Growth

    Open AccessGuoqiang Li, Xinhua Gu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gambling Studies2010

  • The myth of a booming town

    Xinhua Gu, Sheng LiARTICLEChina Economic Journal2009

    This paper builds a trade-based equilibrium, two-sector model to reveal the inefficiency of a foreign-dominated, gaming-biased, bubble growth in Macau. This fast GDP growth that has not led to much real development as measured by the effective GNP would likely have adverse impacts on the city's long-term prosperity. We employ the model to analyze why various gaming markets have adopted differing tax rates. This work provides a rigorous argument a…

  • "Living in sin" and marriage

    Open AccessPadma Rao Sahib, Xinhua GuARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2002Cited by: 4References: 3

  • To Tie the Knot or Not

    Open AccessPadma Rao Sahib, Xinhua GuARTICLEDemographic Research2002Cited by: 1

    This paper introduces imperfect information, learning, and risk aversion in a two sided matching model. The model provides a theoretical framework for the commonly occurring phenomenon of cohabitation followed by marriage, and is consistent with empiri