Yi-Chan Tsai
Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Daan Dist.,
Taipei 106, Taiwan
Email: yichantsai@ntu.edu.tw
Phone: +886-2-33668314
Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, July 2019 – present
Previous Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Feb 2013 – June 2019
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, July 2010 – Feb 2013
Education
Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, June 2010
M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, December 2005
M.A., Economics, National Taiwan University, June 2001
B.A., Economics, National Taiwan University, June 1999
Dissertation
Two Essays on Macroeconomic Shocks and Economic Fluctuations”
Dissertation Supervisor: Bill Dupor and Aubhik Khan
Interests
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Computational Economics
Honors and Awards
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011-2013
Academic Research Award, Tokyo Marine Kagami Memorial Foundation, 2010-2012
Dissertation Fellowship for ROC Students Abroad, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2009 – 2010
JMCB Travel Grant, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, September 2008, and May 2010
Dice Research Award, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 2008
NBER Travel Grant, NBER Summer Institute, July 2007
Publications
“What Do Technology Shocks Tell Us about the New Keynesian Paradigm,” with Bill Dupor and Jing Han, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 56, Issue # 4, (2009), 560-569.
"What Do Working Capital and Habit Tell Us about the Co-movement Problem?" Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 20, Issue # 1, (2016), 342-361.
"Explaining the Durable Goods Co-movement Puzzle with Non-Separable Preferences: A Bayesian Approach," with Jaya Dey, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol 52, (2017), 75-99.
"Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity under Progressive Taxation," with Jang-Ting Guo and Yutaro Izumi, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 60, (2019), 123-137.
"The Monetary Transmission Mechanism within a Two-Sector Model," with I-Te Chen, Taiwan Economic Review, Vol. 49, Issue #1, (2021), 1-32.
"Rising wage inequality and the dynamics of optimal taxation with capital-skill complementarity" with C.C. Yang and Hsin-Jung Yu, Quantitative Economics, Vol. 13, Issue #3, (2022), 1061-1099.
"The Impact of COVID-19 on Taiwan’s Labor Market: Does Work-from-Home Matter?" with Minchung Hsu, Fu Hsiang Chan, Pei-Ju Liao, Taiwan Economic Review, Accepted.
"Financial Frictions and Uncertainty Shocks" with Shih-Yang Lin, Yi-Chan Tsai, Po-Yuan Wang, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Accepted.
Working Papers
"Heterogeneous Bribery, Technology Choice, and Capital Accumulation" July 2025, under review, with Jafar M Olimov, and Hao-Yu Yang.
"The U.S. Inflation Inequality between 2010 to 2023," inder review, with YiLi Chien, and Shih-Yang Lin
"Automation, Polarization, and the Dynamics of Optimum Tax Progressivity" with Jia-Syuan Chen, Minchung Hsu, and CC Yang.
"The 2008 U.S. Auto Market Collapse," with Bill Dupor, Rong Li, and Saif Mehkari
“Explaining the Durable Goods Co-movement Puzzle with Non-Separable Preferences: A Bayesian Approach” with Jaya Dey
“News Shocks and Costly Technology Adoption.” 2018
“Technology Adoption, Distortion and Economic Growth,” with Nan Li, June 2011
“Skill Wage Premium and Sectoral Labor Shift,” with I-Hsin Chang and Ching-Sheng Mao.
“Female Labor Supply and Tax System in Japan,” with Minchung Hsu, Pei-Ju Liao and Shih-Yang Lin.
"Inflation Inequality in Taiwan," with Chun-Wei Ch.
Conference Presentations
The 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC 2025), Seoul, Korea, August 18 - 22, 2025
The 3rd RISE Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, July 23-25, 2025.
2025 SAET Conference, Ischia, Italy, June 29-July 5, 2025
The 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, January 5–7, 2024
The 98th WEAI Annual Conference, San Diego, California, July 2-6, 2023
The 2019 Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM2019), Manchester, UK, August 26-30, 2019.
Computing in Economics and Finance Ottawa, Canada , June 28-30, 2019
The 2019 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES 2019) Xiamen, China, June 14-16, 2019
The 18th Annual SAET Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 11-13, 2018
The 82nd Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, Illinois USA, March 23-25, 2018
The 13th Dynare Conference, Tokyo, Japan, October 28-29, 2017.
The 13th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund, Sweden, June 28 -July 1, 2016
The 16th Annual Conference of Public Economic Theory Association Conference (PET 15), Luxembourg, Luxembourg, July 2-4, 2015
The first Annual International Conference on Applied Econometrics, November 2015.
The 2014 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Taipei, Taiwan, June 20-22, 2014
2014 Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop, Shanghai , China, May 2014
The 13th SAET conference, Paris, France, July 22-27, 2013
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul, Korea, August 11-13, 2011
Society for Economic Dynamics, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2011
The 11th SAET Conference, Ancoa (Faro) Portugal, June 26 – July 1, 2011
80th Annual Meeting of Southern Economics Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2010
The 10th SAET Conference, Singapore, August 13-15, 2010
Computing in Economics and Finance, London, UK, July 15-17, 2010.
Society for Economic Dynamics, Montreal, Canada, July 2010
2010 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, Michigan, USA, May 2010
The 73rd Annual Meeting of Midwest Economic Association, Ohio, USA, March 2009
The 4th Annual Dynare Conference, Boston, USA, September 2008
Invited Seminars
Department of Economics, National Taipei University, December 2015
Department of Economics, Soochow University, November 2015
Department of Economics, Fu Jen Catholic University, April 2014
Department of Money and Banking, National Chengchi University, December 2013
Department of Economics, Peking University HSBC Business School, November 2013.
School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, November 2013.
Department of Economics, National Chung Cheng University, November 2013
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, June 2011
Department of Political Economy, National Sun-Yat-San University, May 2013
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, March 2012
Department of Economics, The University of Notre Dame, October 2011
Department of Economics, The University of California, Riverside, September 2011
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, June 2011
Department of Economics, Purdue University November 2010
Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, November 2010
Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2010
Department of Economics, Keio University, September 2010
Bank of Japan, 2010
Canon Institute for Global Studies, 2010
Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, February 2010.
Department of Economics, Monash University, January 2010.
School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, January 2010.
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, January 2010.
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, January 2010.
Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University, November 2009
Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, November 2008
Referee
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
China Economic Review
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Journal of Monetary Economics
American Economic Review: insight
Professional Experience
Macro Lunch Workshop Organizer, The Ohio State University, Autumn 2007.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University, January 2005 – June 2010.
Research Assistant, Academia Sinica, May 2003 – May 2004.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University, September 2000 – June 2001.
References
Professor Bill Dupor Department of Economics
Phone: 1 614 2929339 The Ohio State University
Email: dupor.1@osu.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1172
Professor Aubhik Khan Department of Economics
Phone: 614 2470097 The Ohio State University
Email: khan@webmail.econ.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1172
Professor Julia Thomas Department of Economics
Phone: 614 2473906 The Ohio State University
Email : thomas@webmail.econ.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1172