FIELDS
OF CONCENTRATION:
Primary
Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Secondary Fields: Open Economy Macroeconomics, International
Economics, Economic Growth
EDUCATION:
1. Ph. D. Economics, Cornell University, May 2007.
2. M. A. Economics, Peking University, July 2003.
3. B. A. Accounting, Jilin University, July 2000.
ACADEMIC PAPERS:
1. Imperfect Competition and Output Indeterminacy
(with Yi Wen), Forthcoming: Journal of Economic Theory.
2. Inflation Dynamics: A Cross-Country
Investigation (With Yi Wen), Forthcoming: Journal of Monetary
Economics.
3. Another Look at Sticky Prices and
Output Persistence (With Yi Wen), Journal of Economic Dynamics
and Control, December 2006, 30(12), pp. 2533-52.
4.Endogenous Money or Sticky Prices?
Comment on Monetary Non-Neutrality and Inflation Dynamics (with Yi
Wen), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, August
2005, 29(8), pp. 1361-83.
5. Solving Linear Difference Systems with Lagged
Expectations by a Method of Undetermined Coefficients (with Yi Wen),
January 2006, Revised May 2006. Matlab
Codes
6. Incomplete
Information and Self-fulfilling Prophecies (with Yi Wen), August
2007, Revised and Resubmitted to International Economic Review.
7. Volatility, Growth, and
Large Welfare Gains from Stabilization Policies (with Yi Wen),
Submitted.
8.
A Defense of RBC: Understanding the Puzzling Effects of Technology
Shocks, (with Yi Wen), April 2007, Revised June 2007, submitted.
9. Expectation-Driven
Fluctuations without Sunspots: A Labor-Market Approach, November
2007
10.
Exogenous TFP and Endogenous Growth, (with Danyang Xie), Coming out
soon.
WORK & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
1. Assistant Professor of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology (HKUST), 2007-
AWARDS AND HONORS:
1. Sage Fellowship, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2003-present.
2. Conference Grants, Graduate School, Cornell University, 2005 and
2006.
3. Conference Grants, CAE, Cornell University, 2005.
4. Guanghua Fellowship, Graduate School, Peking University, 2001.
5. Dongrong Fellowship, Jilin University, 1998.
CONFERENCES PARTICIPATION:
1. Cornell-Penn State Macro Conference, Cornell University, 2005 and
2006.
2. North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, University
of Minnesota, 2006.
3. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006.
4. Middle West Annual Macroeconomics Conference, Iowa University,
2005.
5. Middle West Annual Macroeconomics, Conference, Washington University
in S.t Louis, 2006.
REFERENCES:
1. Professor Yi Wen, Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis,
P.O. Box 442,St.Louis, MO 63166-0442; (314) 444-8599; FAX: (314) 444-8731;
E-mail: yi.wen@stls.frb.org.
2. Professor Karl Shell, Department of Economics, 402 Uris Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853; (607) 255-5277; FAX: (607) 255-8838;
E-mail: ks22@cornell.edu.
3. Professor Tao Zhu, Department of Economics, 442 Uris Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853; (607) 255-6335; FAX: (607) 255-2818;
E-mail: tz34@cornell.edu.
4. Professor Jess Benhabib, Department of Economics, New York University,
269 Mercer Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003; ( 212) 998-8971;
FAX: (212) 995-4186; E-mail: jess.benhabib@nyu.edu