Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Binghamton University (SUNY). I got my Ph.D. degree from Indiana University-Bloomington.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Macroeconomics, International Finance, Sovereign Default Models
CONTACT:
Email: sliu42@binghamton.edu
Address: Department of Economics, Binghamton University, 4400 Vestal Parkway East,
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Fiscal Cyclicality and Information Channel of Government Spending Shocks, with Chris Evans and Shengliang Ou, Oct. 2024. under revision at the Journal of International Economics.
Sovereign Default and Labor Market Dynamics, with Hewei Shen, Oct. 2024. under revision at the Journal of Political Economy, Macroeconomics
Technology Diffusion and Currency Risk Premia, with Min Cui and Ilias Filippou, Oct. 2022.
Persistent Fiscal Expansions in Sudden-Stop Crises: the Expectation Channel, with Hewei Shen and Wenya Wang. [Online appendix] [pub version] Economics Letters. Volume 257, 2025
Sudden Stop with Local Currency Debt, with Chang Ma and Hewei Shen. [pub version] Journal of International Economics. 148, 2024
Government Spending During Sudden Stop Crises. [pub version] Journal of International Economics. 135 (C), 2022.
Fiscal Commitment and Sovereign Default Risk, with Hewei Shen. [pub version] Review of Economic Dynamics. Volume 46, 2022
From Prudence to Excess: Measuring the Coordination Failure in Reserve Accumulation, with Hidehiko Matsumoto and Eugenio Rojas. Aug. 2025
Undergraduate level:
International Monetary Economics (Binghamton, SUFE)
Intermediate Macro (Binghamton)
Money and Banking (SUFE)
Intermediate Macroeconomics (Indiana University)
Principle in Macroeconomics (Indiana University)
Graduate level:
Topics in International Macro (Ph.D. field course, Binghamton)
Macro Theory I (Ph.D. core, Binghamton)
International Macro (MSc)
Frontiers in International Finance (Ph.D. field course, SUFE)
International Finance (M.Sc., SUFE)
Money and Banking (M.Sc., SUFE)