Publications

• 1. Chen, Kuan-Jen, Ching-Chong Lai, and Ting-Wei Lai, 2025, “Employment Protection, Temporary and Permanent Employment Share, and Procyclicality of Labor Productivity,” Accepted by Canadian Journal of Economics.

  2. Chen, Kuan-Jen, Ching-Chong Lai, and Ting-Wei Lai, 2021, “Macroeconomic Instability and Targeting Rules for Monetary Policy in an Endogenously Growing Small Open Economy,” Review of International Economics, 29, 904-926. [Link]

  3. Chen, Kuan-Jen, Ching-Chong Lai, and Ting-Wei Lai, 2019, “Business Cycle Fluctuations with the Division of Permanent and Temporary Employment,” Economic Inquiry, 57, 2082-2109. [Link]

  4. Chen, Kuan-Jen, Angus C. Chu, and Ching-Chong Lai, 2018, “Home Production and Small Open Economy Business Cycles.”  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 95, 110-135. [Link]

  5. Lai, Ching-Chong, Chi-Ting Chin, and Kuan-Jen Chen, 2017, “Oil Dependence, International Borrowings, and Economic Instability in a Small Open Economy,” Macroeconomic Dynamics, 21, 889-917. [Link]

  6. Hsieh, Hui-Ting, Ching-Chong Lai, and Kuan-Jen Chen, 2015, “A Macroeconomic Model of Imperfect Competition with Patent Licensing,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 15, 1579-1618. [Link]

  7. Chen,Kuan-Jen and Ching-Chong Lai, 2015,“On-the-Job Learning and News-Driven Business Cycles,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 47, 261-294. [Link]

Working Papers

• 1. “Macroeconomic Instability, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices in an Endogenously Growing Economy” (with Ching-Chong Lai), September 2025.

  2. “Innovation, Female Market Work,Economic Growth and Industrial Development” (with Juin-Jen Chang, Chun-Chieh Huang, and Ching-Chong Lai), September 2025.

  3. “Directed Technical Change, Technology Spillovers, and Asset Pricing” (with Ching-Chong Lai and Ting-Wei Lai), August 2020.

  4. “R&D Spending, Foreign Technology Shocks, and Small Open Economy Business Cycles” (with Ching-Chong Lai), August 2020.