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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
  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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