Resume

Professor, Research School of Economics, Australian National University

Other Positions

• Founder, Leader & Chief Investigator, Macro Public Finance Lab @ ANU (MPF-Lab)

• Associate Investigator, the UNSW Centre for Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) 

• Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI)

• Member, Australian Treasury's Macroeconomic Advisory Panel

• Member, Australian Treasury's Expert Panel in Economic Modelling

Education

• PhD in Economics, Indiana University

Research & Teaching Areas

• Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Development Economics

Selected Publications

• "Optimal Size and Composition of Government Spending in Small Open Economies" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, December 2026 (with Qingyuan Du, Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Solmaz Moslehi)

• "Health Risk, Insurance and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation," Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2023 (with Juergen Jung) 

• "Social Health Insurance: A Quantitative Exploration," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, June 2022 (with Juergen Jung)

• "Sustainable and Equitable Pension with Means-Testing in Aging Economies," European Economic Review, January 2022 (with George Kudrna and Alan Woodland)

• "Aging and Health Financing in the US: A General Equilibrium Analysis," European Economic Review, November 2017 (with Juergen Jung and Matt Chambers)

• "Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate and Welfare: U.S Health Care Reform 2010," Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2016 (with Juergen Jung)

• "Trade-Offs in Means-Tested Pension Design," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, October 2014 (with Alan Woodland) 

• "The Extension of Social Security Coverage in Developing Countries," Journal of Development Economics, November 2012 (with Juergen Jung)

• "Temptation and Social Security in a Dynastic Framework," European Economic Review, October 2012 (with Cagri Kumru)

• "Macroeconomic Implications of Early Retirements in the Public Sector: The Case of Brazil," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, April 2009 (with Gerhard Glomm and Juergen Jung)

Selected Grants

• Australia: Australian Research Council (ARC), Discovery Project (Sole CI), 2021-26 

• Australia: Australian Research Council (ARC), Early Career Fellowship (Sole CI), 2012-15

• Australia: ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), Research Program on Demographic Change and Optimal Policy, 2017- 25 

• Japan: Bank of Japan (BoJ), International Scholar Fellowship Program, 2015

• USA: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Research Grant, 2012-14 

• USA: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Research Grant (R03), 2010-11