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YU-CHIN CHEN' CV (updated 06/09; pdf
version)
PERSONAL INFORMATION: Female; U.S. citizen.
EDUCATION:
| 06/02 |
Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, Harvard University |
| 06/96 |
Masters in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government |
| 06/93 |
A.B. in Physics, cum laude, Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges |
CURRENT POSITION:
09/03-present Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University
of Washington
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS AND VISITING POSITIONS:
| Jan-Jun, 09 |
Visiting Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Jun, 08 |
Visiting Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Aug, 07 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University |
| Jan-Jul, 07 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard
University |
| Oct, 06 |
Visiting Researcher, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| May, 06 |
Visiting Researcher, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington,
New Zealand |
| Jun, 05 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH) in Zurich |
| Apr, 05 |
Visitor, Program in Economics Research, Columbia University |
| 02-03 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for International Development,
Harvard University |
| 02-03 |
Visiting Scholar, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
| Sum, 02 |
Graduate Summer Intern, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System |
| 96-03 |
Teaching Fellow, J. F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard
College (excl 99-00) |
| 00-03 |
Advisor of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard Economics Department |
| 99-00 |
Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, DC |
| 98-99 |
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard Economics
Department |
| Sum, 95 |
Research Assistant, Brookings Institute, Washington, DC |
| 93-94 |
Associate, Hwa Yue Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, International
Trade
COURSES TAUGHT:
International Macroeconomics and Finance (Undergraduate and
Graduate), Macroeconomics (Graduate), International Trade and Investment
(Undergraduate); Honors Thesis Seminar (Undergraduate)
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS:
- Best Paper Award, 2005 Global Finance Conference, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland
- Henry Buechel Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, University
of Washington, 2005
- Royalty Research Fund Grant, "Optimal Foreign Reserve Management",
2005
PUBLICATIONS (See Research
Page for Links and Updates)
“Can Exchange Rates Forecasting Commodity Prices?” (2009)
Joint with Kenneth Rogoff and Barbara Rossi, Quarterly Journal
of Economics (forthcoming).
“Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy in an Open Economy:
Lessons from Japan" (2008) Joint with Pisut Kulthanavit. Pacific
Economic Review, Vol. 13, Issue 4, p405.
“Commodity Currencies” (2003) Joint with Kenneth Rogoff.
Journal of International Economics, v.59, n.2
“Accounting for Differences in Economic Growth”(1996)
Joint with Bosworth, B, and S. Collins, in Structural Adjustment and
Economic Reform: East Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern
Europe, ed. A. Kohsaka and K. Ohno.
COMPLETED RESEARCH (See Research
Page for Links and Updates)
"A Macro-Finance Approach to Exchange Rate Determination"
(10/2009) Joint Byron Kwok Ping Tsang
"Risk and Returns in Exchange Rates: Evidence from Commodity
Currencies” (2009) Joint with Chang-Jin Kim and SeongTae Kim
"What Does the Yield Curve Tell Us About Exchange Rate Predictability?"
(2009) Joint with Byron Tsang
“Monetary Policy Design and Imperfect Knowledge: An Open Economy
Analysis ” (2008) Joint with Pisut Kulthanavit
“Income Distribution and Growth: An Open Economy Analysis”
(2008) Joint with Stephen Turnovsky
“Are Commodity Currencies an Exception to the Rule?”
(2006) Joint with Kenneth Rogoff
“The Search for Stationarity in Real Exchange Rates: An Unobserved
Component Regime-Switching Approach” (2007) Joint with Bruce
Wang
“Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: Evidence from Commodity
Economies” (2004)
“Local Labor Markets and Icreasing Returns to Scale: How Strong
is the Evidence?” (2002) Joint with Noah Weisberger.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
"The Role of Commodity Price Aggregates for Monetary Policy"
Joint with Stephen J. Turnovksy
"Does Monetary Policy Drive Exchange Rates? The Role of Expectations"
Joint with Byron Kwok Ping Tsang and Wen Jen Tsay
“Predicting Agricultural Prices with Asset Market Information”
(2009) Joint with Kenneth Rogoff and Barbara Rossi
“Commodity Currencies and Volatility Forecasts" Joint
with Philip Sylling
“Is Debt Relief Good for Health?” Joint with Douglas
Almond
“Ethnicity, Inter-Generational Ties, and the Savings-Retirement
Decision”
“Is Bigger Always Better? Optimal Foreign Reserve Management
in Emerging Economics”
Joint with Sebastian Fossati
“Protection on Sale? The Political Economy of Beef and Bananas”
PH.D. DISSERTATION SUPERVISION:
- Committee Chair:
Pisut Kulthanavit, Ph.D. 2008 (Thammasat University, Thailand)
Bruce Wang, Ph.D. 2007 (Goldman Sachs, NYC)
- Committee Member:
Byron Tsang, Ph.D. 2008 (Virginia Tech)
Wei-Choun Yu, Ph.D. 2007 (Winona State University)
Yu-Ning Huang, Ph.D. 2006 (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Keunsuk Chung, Ph.D. 2006 (Penn State Harrisburg)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
| 07/09 |
Discussant, NBER Summer Institute |
| 06/09 |
Invited presentation at the 3rd Bank of Canada - European Central
Bank FX Workshop: "Exchange Rates: The Global Perspective" |
| 06/09 |
Seminar at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 06/09 |
Invited presentation at "Uncertainty and Price Volatility
of Agricultural Commodities", hosted by IAE de Paris Sorbonne’s
Graduate Business School, Arts & Métiers ParisTech,
and ESTP, Paris, France |
| 05/09 |
Public talk at National Taiwan University on Paul Krugman's
Contribution in Economics |
| 05/09 |
Seminar at Institute of Economics, National Sun Yat-sen University,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| 04/09 |
UW Alumni Association/Economic Alumni Organization Annual Nobel
Prize Lecture: The
Brilliance Behind the Columns: Paul Krugman, an Economist of Scale |
| 04/09 |
Seminar at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank |
| 03/09 |
Seminar at Academia Sinica |
| 11/08 |
Presentations at LAMES/LACEA annual conference, Rio |
| 11/08 |
Panelist, "The
Financial Crisis: What Should We Do Now?", Financial
Turmoil: UW Insight, University of Washington |
| 10/08 |
Seminar at UC Davis |
| 10/08 |
Seminar at University of British Columbia |
| 09/08 |
Seminar at Georgetown University |
| 09/08 |
Discussant at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Pacific
Basin Conference |
| 08/08 |
Co-Organizer of "Castor Workshop on International Macroeconomics",
Seattle, WA |
| 07/08 |
Presentation at the Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting,
Cambridge, MA |
| 07/08 |
Seminar at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 06/08 |
Seminar at Hong Kong University |
| 06/08 |
Seminar at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
| 04/08 |
Seminar at the IMF Research Division |
| 03/08 |
Seminar at Boston College |
| 03/08 |
Presentation at the NBER IFM Meeting |
| 01/08 |
Discussant at the AEA |
| 09/07 |
Seminar at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 08/07 |
Summer lecture at National Taiwan University on Open Economy
Macroeconomics |
| 06/07 |
Presentation at IFINITI Conference on International Finance,
Dublin, Ireland |
| 12/06 |
Presentation at Kobe University Economics Workshop |
| 12/06 |
Seminar at Hong Kong University |
| 10/06 |
Presentation at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank |
| 10/06 |
Presentation at the 9th Annual Conference on International Economics,co-sponsored
by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and the Santa Cruz Center
for International Economics |
| 09/06 |
Presentations at the the 1st International Conference on Economics
hosted by Turkish Economic
Association, Ankara, Turkey |
| 07/06 |
Session organizer, "Patterns and Impacts of International
Capital Flows” at the Asia and Pacific Economic Association
Conference, Seattle |
| 07/06 |
Presentation at the Bank of Canada Workshop on Commodity Price
Issues, Ottawa, Canada |
| 07/05 |
Session organizer, "Understanding Exchange Rates: Theory
and Empirics", and presentation at the 1st Asia-Pacific Economic
Association Conference, Tokyo |
| 06/05 |
Presentation at the 12th Global Finance Conference, Trinity
College, Dublin |
| 06/05 |
Research presentation and lecture series on “Open Economy
Macroeconomics”, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
in Zurich |
| 05/05 |
Paul Heyne Lecture for the Undergraduates on "Doing Research
in International Macroeconomics" |
| 04/05 |
UW Economics Alumni Organization Lecture, "Today's Policy:
Good for Tomorrow? Understanding the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics",
University of Washington |
| 04/05 |
Seminar presentation, Department of Economics, Columbia University |
| 04/05 |
Seminar presentation, Department of Economics, Univerisity
of British Columbia |
| 02/05 |
3rd Annual Western Regional International Health
Conference, University of Washington |
| 12/04 |
9th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic
Association, San Jose, Costa Rica |
| 08/04 |
“Asian Crisis, VI” conference, Tokyo, Japan |
| 10/03 |
8th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic
Association, Puebla, Mexico |
| 10/02 |
7th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic
Association, Madrid, Spain |
| 07/02 |
Summer School in Economic Theory on Growth, Fluctuations, &
Open Economy Macroeconomics, Venice International University,
Italy |
| 06/02 |
1st Summer Symposium for Central Bank Researchers at the Study
Center Gerzensee, Switzerland |
| 01/02 |
CEANA International Finance session at American Economic Association/Allied
Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta |
| 11/01 |
4th Annual Conference “Understanding Exchange Rates”,
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 09/01 |
“Empirical Exchange Rate Models” Conference, University
of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Referee for Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economics
and Statistics; Journal of International Economics; Economics
of Transition, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, IMF Staff
Papers, Journal of Macroeconomics; Pacific Economic Review; Canadian
Journal of Economics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal
of Futures Markets. |
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