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Jui-Chung Yang
Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei City, Taiwan 10617
jcyang1225@ntu.edu.tw
Welcome to my webpage! I’m Jui-Chung Yang, but you can call me Ray—"Jui" is pronounced like "Ray." I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University. My research focuses on econometric theory and the economics of climate change.
Employment
Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, 2021 - Present
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University, 2021 - 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University, 2017 - 2021
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, National Taiwan University, 2019 - 2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Southern California, 2014 - 2017
Education
Education
Ph.D. (Economics) Texas A&M University, 2009 - 2014
M.A. (Economics) National Taiwan University, 2004 - 2006
B.A. (Business Administration) National Taiwan University, 1998 - 2002
Research
Research
Synthetic Historical Control for Policy Evaluation, with Yi-Ting Chen and Tzu-Ting Yang, working paper. Link
Revamping Firm Fixed Effects Models with Machine Learning - New Evidence from Recovering the Missing R&D-Patent Relation, with Hui-Ching Chuang, Po-Hsuan Hsu, and Chung-Ming Kuan, S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Paper Series. Link
Tracking the Evolution of Product Inventions with Trademark Data, with Tsung-Han Chou and Po-Hsuan Hsu, S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Paper Series. Link
Time-Varying Betas in Foreign Exchange Returns: An IPCA Approach, with Hsuan Fu and Shu-Fu Lee, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, forthcoming. Link
SSRN. Link
Exploring the Allocation of Onshore Wind Power Generation in Taiwan under Climate Change Using Modern Portfolio Theory, with Chun-Hung Li, Ya-Chi Chang, and Wan-Ling Tseng, Journal of Taiwan Energy, 11, 261-281, 2024. Link
Climate Change and Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States, with Kamiar Mohaddes, Ryan N. C. Ng, M. Hashem Pesaran, and Mehdi Raissi, Oxford Open Economics, 2, 1–11, 2023. Link
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics CWPE2205. Link
Dynamic Panel Data Estimators in Leverage Adjustments Model, with Hui-Ching Chuang, Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, 10, 67–111, 2022. Link
International Currency Markets and the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Hsuan Fu, Pacific Economic Review, 27, 400–422, 2022. Link
JUE Insight: Demand for Transportation and Spatial Pattern of Economic Activity during the Pandemic, with Kong-Pin Chen and Tzu-Ting Yang, Journal of Urban Economics, 127, 103426, 2022. Link
Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: A Cross-Country Analysis, with Matthew E. Kahn, Kamiar Mohaddes, Ryan N. C. Ng, M. Hashem Pesaran, and Mehdi Raissi, Energy Economics, 104, 105624, 2021. Link
NBER Working Paper No. 26167, 2019 Link. USC-INET Research Paper No. 19-13, 2019. Link
Media coverage: Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox News, Financial Times, New York Post, Reuters, Scientific American, Washington Post, 中時電子報
COVID-19 and Transboundary Air Pollution: Did Coronavirus Improve Air Quality in Taiwan? with Yun-Peng Lu, Academia Economic Papers, 49, 495–526, 2021. Link
Double Machine Learning with Gradient Boosting and Its Application to the Big N Audit Quality Effect, with Hui-Ching Chuang and Chung-Ming Kuan, Journal of Econometrics, 216, 268–283, 2020. Link
USC-INET Research Paper No. 19-05, 2019. Link
Half-Panel Jackknife Fixed Effects Estimation of Panels with Weakly Exogenous Regressor, with Alexander Chudik and M. Hashem Pesaran, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 33, 816–836, 2018. Link
USC-INET Research Paper No. 18-04, 2018. Link
Multivariate local polynomial kernel estimators: leading bias and asymptotic distribution, with Jingping Gu and Qi Li, Econometric Reviews, 34, 979–1010, 2015. Link
Towards uniformly efficient trend estimation under weak/strong correlation and nonstationary volatility, with Ke-Li Xu, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 42, 63–86, 2015. Link
Teaching
Teaching
Statistics and Econometrics (Undergraduate)
Machine Learning and Econometrics (Graduate)
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
I am a recreational long-distance runner. Here are my personal bests:
5000 m: 20:56 (NTU Sports Day, December 3, 2022)
Half Marathon: 1:41:35 (World Masters Games, May 25, 2025)
Marathon: 3:28:23 (Taipei Marathon, December 18, 2022)
50 miles: 9:46:53 (Yilan Dongshan River Ultramarathon. November 23, 2024)
100 kilometers: 14:00:04 (Taipei Ultra Marathon, February 22, 2025)
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