CHAO  WEI

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 2001

                Dissertation Title: “Energy, the Stock Market and the Putty-Clay Investment Model”

M.A., Economics, Columbia University, 1996

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor of Economics at the George Washington University, 2010 – present

Congressional Budget Office Economic Policy Fellow (August 2010 – May 2011)

Assistant Professor of Economics at the George Washington University, 2003 - 2010

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001 – 2003.

 PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS

 Macroeconomics, Network Economics, Energy Economics, Labor Economics, Financial Economics

PUBLICATIONS

WORKING PAPERS

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

PhD Level: Macroeconomics Theory II, III

Undergraduate level: Intermediate Macroeconomics; Financial Economics; Proseminar (Research and Writing)

SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Trade and War: A Global Input-Output Network Perspective

Annual NSF Conference on Network Science and Economics 2024, George Washington University, Inaugural WANES Conference 2023

A Tale of Two Families: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Parental Human Capital Investment

Econometric Society Summer Meeting 2022, Society of Computational Economics Annual Meetings 2021, Monash University, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings 2021

The Long and Short of Trade and Migration Reforms in China

AEA Annual Meeting 2018, Econometric Society Asia Meeting 2017, Econometric Society North American Meeting 2016, Sargent Reading Group Conference 2015, GW-China 9th Annual Conference, Econometric Society Asia Meeting 2017

 Unemployment or Out of the Labor Force: A Perspective from Time Allocation

George Mason University 2018, Southwestern University of Economics and Finance 2018, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting 2016, Econometric Society China Meeting 2016, American Economic Association Annual Meeting 2017 

 Travel Time Use over Five Decades

Department of Transportation, Bureau of Economic Analysis, George Washington University, FCSM Conference

 The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs

AEA Annual Meeting 2012, Econometric Society Summer Meeting 2012, NBER Summer Institute 2010, Society for Computational Economics Annual Meeting 2010, 1st Northeast Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, Society of Government Economics Annual Meetings 2012, Bureau of Economic Analysis 2012, Georgetown University 2013, University of Maryland 2013, Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta 2013, SED Annual Meeting 2015.

 Marginal Welfare Cost of Capital Taxation: An Asset Market Approach

AEA Annual Meetings 2011, Congressional Budget Office 2010, Georgetown University Macro Seminar 2011, Southern Economic Association 2011

Taxation, Investment and Asset Pricing (Taxation and Asset Pricing in a Production Economy)

IMF Research Department Seminar, 2009 IMF Institute Seminar, 2009 George Washington University, Finance Department, 2008 Brookings Institution, Macro Seminar, 2008 Federal Reserve Board, Macro Seminar, 2008 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2008 Midwest Macro Meetings, Indiana University at Binghamton, 2009 Econometric Society Summer Meetings, Boston University, 2009 Society of Computational Economics Annual Meetings, Paris, 2008

 A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Gasoline Use, Driving and Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

George Washington University, Macro Seminar, 2008 Georgetown University, Macro Seminar, 2009 Congressional Budget Office, Macro Seminar, 2010 Resources for the Future, Seminar series, 2010 Midwest Macro Meetings, Indiana University at Binghamton, 2009 American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, 2010

 A Note on the Impact of Progressive Dividend Taxation on Investment Decisions

Georgetown University, Macro Seminar, 2008 George Washington University, Macro Seminar, 2008

 Inflation and Stock Prices: No Illusion

University of Delaware, Macro Seminar, 2007 George Washington University, Macro Seminar, 2006 American University, Macro Seminar, 2006 Georgetown University, Macro Seminar, 2005

University of Maryland at College Park, Macro Seminar, 2005 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Research Seminar, 2005 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Macro Seminar, 2005 Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007 Midwest Macro Conference (invited), 2007 Society of Computational Economics Annual Meetings (invited), 2007

A Quartet of Asset Pricing Models in Nominal and Real Economies

George Washington University, Macro Seminar, 2006

Unexpected Inflation, Firm Characteristics and Equity Returns in a New-Keynesian Model

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, 2004 University of Virginia, Macro Seminar, 2004

George Washington University, Macro Seminar, 2003 Federal Reserve Board, Macro Seminar, 2003 Arizona State University, Macro Seminar, 2002 American Economic Association Annual Meeting, 2005 Society of Computational Economics Annual Meeting, Washington, 2005

Energy, the Stock Market, and the Putty-Clay Investment Model

IMF Research Department Seminar, 2005 Federal Reserve Board, Macro Seminar, 2002 University of Chicago, Business School, 2001 University of Wisconsin at Madison, Macro Seminar, 2001 Duke University, Macro Seminar, 2001 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Macro Seminar, 2001 University of Maryland at College Park, Macro Seminar, 2001 University of Iowa, Macro Seminar, 2001 Rice University, Macro Seminar, 2001 University of Texas at A & M, Macro Seminar, 2001 University of Kansas, Macro Seminar, 2001 SUNY at Stony Brook, Macro Seminar, 2001 Pennsylvania State University, Macro Seminar, 2001

North Carolina State University, Macro Seminar, 2001 University of California at Santa Cruz, Macro Seminar, 2001 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Macro Seminar, 2001 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Macro Seminar, 2001 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Macro Seminar, 2001

Stanford University, Macro Seminar, 2000 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Macro Seminar, 1999

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

·        Congressional Budget Office Economic Policy Fellow, 2010-2011

·        2009-2010, 2010-2011 Columbian College Facilitating Fund Award, GWU, 2009, 2010

·        2008-2009 UFF Grant, GWU, 2008.

·        2008-2009 Policy Research Scholar, GWU, 2008.

·        Class of 1990 Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, UNC at Chapel Hill, 2002

·        Olin Fellow, the John M. Olin Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2000 – 2001

·        Stanford University Fellowship, 1996 – 1997

·        Columbia University President’s Fellowship, 1994 – 1996

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Referee Service

Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Resource and Energy Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Visiting Scholar at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, December 2001, May 2013

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Economic Association

Econometric Society

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE:

·        Economics Department Ph.D. Placement Committee, Committee Chair, 2013 – present

·        Macroeconomics Comprehensive Examinations Committee, 2004 – present

·        Co-Organizer, George Washington University Macroeconomics and International Economics Seminar Series, 2003 – present

·        Econ 4198 Assessment Committee, 2012 - present

·        Economics Department Ph.D. Committee, 2006 – 2013

·        Economics Department Graduate Admissions Committee, 2006 – 2013

·        Economics Department Website Updating Committee, 2012 – 2013

·        Kendrick Prize Committee, 2013

·        Academic Grievance Committee (university), 2012

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE SERVICE:

Ph.D. Dissertation Directed:

Hector Tzavells (2021),  Gao Chen (2019), Zhe Fu (2017, main adviser), Shunqin Chen (2016, main adviser), Chen Song (2015), Pablo Vega-Garcia (2014), Annette Kyobe (2014), Sebastian Acevedo (2014), Yu Sun (2013), Jane Yoo (2012), Leandro Medina (2011), Brett Rayner (2010)

Reader on the following Ph.D. committee:

Sebastine Acevedo (2015), Matt Darst (2015), Md Refayet (2015),  Kotaro Ishi (2008) Dahlia El-Hawary (2006)