Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics 

Department of Economics at Emory University

Email: vivianyue1@gmail.com 

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Research

Working Papers 

Tariff Pass-Through to U.S. Producer Prices: Firm-Level Evidence From the 2018--19 Trade War, with  Simon Gilchrist,  Bin Wei, and Egon Zakrajsek

The Impact of Shipping Costs on U.S. Producer Prices: Micro-Level Evidence from the Pandemic, with  Simon Gilchrist,  Bin Wei, and Egon Zakrajsek

Climate Policy and Sovereign Default Risk, with Jafet Baca and Givi Melkadze (slides)

A Theory of International Official Lending, with Qing Liu and Zanhui Liu (slides) 

How Credible is Hong Kong's Currency Peg? with Urban Jermann and Bin Wei (R&R at Journal of Financial Economics latest result slides) -  VoxChina column

Export Dynamics and Aggregate Dynamics in Large Devaluations, with George Alessandria and Sangeeta Pratap (R&R at American Economic Journal - Macroeconomics)

Journal Publications

Accounting for the Evolution of China’s Production and Trade Patterns, with Hanwei Huang and Jiandong Ju (forthcoming at International Economic Review) - VoxChina column

The Fed Takes on Corporate Credit Risk: An Analysis of the Efficacy of the SMCCF, with  Simon Gilchrist,  Bin Wei, and Egon Zakrajsek (Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2024, Vol 146, 103573.) - NBER Digest

Sovereign Risk and Bank Lending: Evidence from 1999 Turkish Earthquake, with Yusuf Soner Başkaya, Bryan Hardy, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (Journal of International Economics, 2024, Vol 150 (1). 103918)

Sovereign Risk and Financial Risk , with  Simon Gilchrist,  Bin Wei, and Egon Zakrajsek (Journal of International Economics, 2022, Vol 136, 103603.)-  VoxEu column

The Two-Pillar Policy for the RMB, with Urban Jermann and Bin Wei (Journal of Finance, 2022, Vol 77 (6), 3093-3140) - VoxChina column

Liquidity Backstops and Dynamic Debt Runs, with Bin Wei (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2020, July Vol 116, 103916)

U.S. Monetary Policy and International Bond Markets, with Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajsek (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019, Vol 51, 127-161)

Sovereign Debt - Theory, with Bin Wei (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance , 2019 November)

The Twin Ds: Optimal Default and Devaluation, with Seunghoon Na, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe (American Economic Review, 2018, Vol 108, 1773-1819)

Interest Rate Swaps and Corporate Default, with Urban Jermann (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, Vol 88, 104-120.) - Awarded Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank 

The Response of Soveveign Bond Yields to U.S. Monetary Policy' (with Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajsek) (Economía Chilena, 2016, 19 (2), 102-126.)

Exchange Rate Policy and Foreign Bond Spreads in Developing Countries, with Samir Jahjah and Bin Wei (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2013, Vol 45 (7), 1275-1300)

A General Equilibrium Model Of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles,with Enrique Mendoza (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127 (2), 889-946.)(earlier version: A Solution to the Disconnect between Country Risk and Business Cycles Theories          

Sovereign Default and Debt Renegotiation (Journal of International Economics, 2010, Vol 80 (2), 176-187.) Awarded the Bhagwati Prize for the Best Paper published in the Journal of International Economics during 2010-2011

Global Yield Curve Dynamics and Interactions: A Generalized Nelson-Siegel Approach (Joint with Francis X. Diebold and Canlin Li) Journal of Econometrics, 2008, October, 351-363.

Country Spreads and Emerging Countries: Who Drives Whom? (Joint with Martin Uribe) Journal of International Economics, 2006, June , Vol (69), 6-36 (Awarded the Elsevier's Economics and Finance Journals most cited articles in 2005-2009)

Other Publications

How Credible is Hong Kong's Currency Peg? Insights from Financial Market Prices  with Urban Jermann and Bin Wei (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, September 2025, Policy Hub No. 5–2025)

RMB Internationalization and Digitalization, with Bin Wei (invited chapter in "The Arc of the Chinese Economy" 2025, edited by Hanming Fang and Marshall W. Meyer, published by Cambridge University Press) 

Transmission of Sovereign Risk to Bank Lending, with Yusuf Soner Başkaya, Bryan Hardy, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, February 2023, Policy Hub No. 2–2023)

Interest Rate Swaps, with Bin Wei (Research Handbook of Financial Markets, 2023, edited by Refet S. Gürkaynak, Jonathan H. Wright, published by Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.)

The Term Structure of the Excess Bond Premium: Measures and Implications, with  Simon Gilchrist,  Bin Wei, and Egon Zakrajsek (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, September 2021, Policy Hub No. 12–2021)

The Impact of the Fed’s Steps to Preserve Liquidity during the Pandemic, with  Simon Gilchrist,  Bin Wei, and Egon Zakrajsek (The Digest, NBER, October, 2020)

The Federal Reserve’s liquidity backstops to the municipal bond market during the COVID-19 pandemic with  Bin Wei (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, May 2020, Policy Hub No. 05–2020)