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Yi-Chan Tsai

Department of Economics

National Taiwan University

No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Daan Dist.,

Taipei 106, Taiwan

Email: yichantsai@ntu.edu.tw

Phone: +886-2-33668314

Current Position

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, July 2019 – present

Previous Position

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Feb 2013 – June 2019

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, July 2010 – Feb 2013

Education

Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, June 2010

M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, December 2005

M.A., Economics, National Taiwan University, June 2001

B.A., Economics, National Taiwan University, June 1999

Dissertation

Two Essays on Macroeconomic Shocks and Economic Fluctuations”

Dissertation Supervisor: Bill Dupor and Aubhik Khan

Interests

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Computational Economics

Honors and Awards

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011-2013

Academic Research Award, Tokyo Marine Kagami Memorial Foundation, 2010-2012

Dissertation Fellowship for ROC Students Abroad, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2009 – 2010

JMCB Travel Grant, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, September 2008, and May 2010

Dice Research Award, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 2008

NBER Travel Grant, NBER Summer Institute, July 2007

Publications

“What Do Technology Shocks Tell Us about the New Keynesian Paradigm,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 56, Issue # 4, 560-569. (with Bill Dupor and Jing Han)

"What Do Working Capital and Habit Tell Us about the Co-movement Problem?" Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 20, Issue # 1, 342-361.

"Explaining the Durable Goods Co-movement Puzzle with Non-Separable Preferences: A Bayesian Approach," Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol 52, 75-99. (with Jaya Dey)

"The Monetary Transmission Mechanism within a Two-Sector Model," Taiwan Economic Review, accepted, (with I-Te Chen)

"Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity under Progressive Taxation," Journal of Macroeconomics, accepted, (with Jang-Ting Guo and Yutaro Izumi)

"Rising wage inequality and the dynamics of optimal taxation with capital-skill complementarity" with C.C. Yang and Hsin-Jung Yu

Working Papers

“News Shocks and Costly Technology Adoption,” February 2018, under review.

“Explaining the Durable Goods Co-movement Puzzle with Non-Separable Preferences: A Bayesian Approach” with Jaya Dey

“Technology Adoption, Distortion and Economic Growth,” with Nan Li, June 2011

"The 2008 U.S. Auto Market Collapse," with Bill Dupor, Rong Li, and Saif Mehkari

“Skill Wage Premium and Sectoral Labor Shift,” with I-Hsin Chang and Ching-Sheng Mao.

“Female Labor Supply and Tax System in Japan,” with Minchung Hsu, Pei-Ju Liao and Le Anh Xuan

"Consumption Inequality in Taiwan," with Chun-Wei Chi, Chen-Wei Hsinag, and Hendrik Rommeswi

"Revenue Inequality in Taiwan," with Wei-Lun Li, Li-Ju Chen

"Polarisation and optimal taxation" with C.C. Yang and Hsin-Jung Yu

Conference Presentations

The 2019 Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM2019), Manchester, UK, August 26-30, 2019.

Computing in Economics and Finance Ottawa, Canada , June 28-30, 2019

The 2019 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES 2019) Xiamen, China, June 14-16, 2019

The 18th Annual SAET Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 11-13, 2018

13th Dynare Conference, Tokyo, Japan, October 28-29, 2017.

13th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund, Sweden, June 28 -July 1, 2016

16th Annual Conference of Public Economic Theory Association Conference (PET 15), Luxembourg, Luxembourg, July 2-4, 2015

The first Annual International Conference on Applied Econometrics, November 2015.

Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 2014

2014 Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop, May 2014

13th SAET conference, Paris France, July 22-27, 2013

Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, August 2011

Society for Economic Dynamics, July 2011

11th SAET Conference, June 2011

80th Annual Meeting of Southern Economics Association, November 2010

10th SAET Conference, August 2010

Computing in Economics and Finance, July 2010

Society for Economic Dynamics, July 2010

2010 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, May 2010

73rd Annual Meeting of Midwest Economic Association, March 2009

4th Annual Dynare Conference, September 2008

Invited Seminars

Department of Economics, National Taipei University, December 2015

Department of Economics, Soochow University, November 2015

Department of Economics, Fu Jen Catholic University, April 2014

Department of Money and Banking, National Chengchi University, December 2013

Department of Economics, Peking University HSBC Business School, November 2013.

School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, November 2013.

Department of Economics, National Chung Cheng University, November 2013

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, June 2011

Department of Political Economy, National Sun-Yat-San University, May 2013

Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, March 2012

Department of Economics, The University of Notre Dame, October 2011

Department of Economics, The University of California, Riverside, September 2011

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, June 2011

Department of Economics, Purdue University November 2010

Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, November 2010

Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2010

Department of Economics, Keio University, September 2010

Bank of Japan, 2010

Canon Institute for Global Studies, 2010

Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, February 2010.

Department of Economics, Monash University, January 2010.

School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, January 2010.

Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, January 2010.

Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, January 2010.

Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University, November 2009

Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, November 2008

Referee

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

China Economic Review

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Journal of Monetary Economics

American Economic Review: insight

Professional Experience

Macro Lunch Workshop Organizer, The Ohio State University, Autumn 2007.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University, January 2005 – June 2010.

Research Assistant, Academia Sinica, May 2003 – May 2004.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University, September 2000 – June 2001.

References

Professor Bill Dupor Department of Economics

Phone: 1 614 2929339 The Ohio State University

Email: dupor.1@osu.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1172

Professor Aubhik Khan Department of Economics

Phone: 614 2470097 The Ohio State University

Email: khan@webmail.econ.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1172

Professor Julia Thomas Department of Economics

Phone: 614 2473906 The Ohio State University

Email : thomas@webmail.econ.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1172