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Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, National Taiwan University.
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at National Taiwan University. Prior to joining NTU, I served as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica. My research interests lie in the areas of macroeconomics, health economics, and labor economics.
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at National Taiwan University. Prior to joining NTU, I served as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica. My research interests lie in the areas of macroeconomics, health economics, and labor economics.
You can find my CV here.
WORKING PAPERS
Balancing Accountability and Cooperation: Incentive Design and Performance in Canadian Establishments (with Mark Anderson, Soonchul Hyun, and Atsuko Tanaka)
Latest Version: October 2025
Full Paper: SSRN
Dissecting the Asymmetric Impact of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Inequality Over the Business Cycle (with C.C. Yang and Chih-Han Hsueh)
Latest Version: March 2025
Full Paper: SSRN
College Loans and Human Capital Investment (with Chao Fu, and Atsuko Tanaka), Revision Requested, International Economic Review
Latest Version: September 2025. This paper was previously circulated under the title “College Loans and Post-Schooling Human Capital Investment.”
Optimal Disability Insurance and Unemployment Insurance with Cyclical Fluctuations
Latest Version: February 2025
Full Paper: New Draft Coming Soon
PUBLICATIONS
Healthcare Utilization and Labor Market Responses to Health Shocks (with Heng-Jui Chang, Chih-han Hsueh, and Atsuko Tanaka), Canadian Journal of Economics 58(3): 2025.
Working paper version: SSRN, online appendix
Long-Run Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19 in a Global Economy (with Wen-Tai Hsu and Han Yang), Economic Theory, 78, 709–752 (2024).
Working paper version: PDF, SSRN
Between Lives and Economy: COVID-19 Containment Policy in Open Economies (with Wen-Tai Hsu and Han Yang), European Economic Review, Vol 157, August 2023, 104512.
Working paper version: PDF, SSRN, online appendix: PDF
Optimal Long-term Contracts with Disability Insurance under Limited Commitment (with Kyoungjin Choi, Junkee Jeon, and Hoseok Lee), Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol 104, Pages 99–32, May 2022.
Working paper version: SSRN
Shifting from Pay-as-You-Go to Individual Retirement Accounts: A Path to a Sustainable Pension System (with Atsuko Tanaka and Po-Shyan Wu), Journal of Macroeconomics, 69, September 2021.
Working paper version: PDF, online appendix: PDF
Employee Investment and Screening based on Labor Force Attachment (with Atsuko Tanaka), Economics Bulletin, 40 (2), 1349-1356, May 2020.
Working paper version: PDF, online appendix: PDF
Pension Reform in Taiwan: a Macroeconomic Analysis (with Atsuko Tanaka and Yu-Hsiang Cheng), Taiwan Economic Review, 48 (1), 1-30, March 2020.
Working paper version: PDF
Competitive Dominance of Emission Trading over Pigouvian Taxation in a Globalized Economy (with Seung-Gyu Sim), Economics Letters, Vol 163, Pages 158–161, February 2018.
Working paper version: PDF
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Treatment Choices by Altruistic yet Strategic Medical Professionals (with Chao Fu, Jesse Gregory, and Atsuko Tanaka)
Efficient Allocations in a Dynamic Moral Hazard Economy (with Noah Williams)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Finance, National Taiwan University
No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei City 106
Office: 1014
Phone: +886-2-33662442
Email: hclin at ntu.edu.tw
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