(LAST UPDATED: July 2019)
Research Interests:
- Macroeconomics, Development Economics.
Employment
- Economist, International Monetary Fund, February 2017 -- Present.
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Wuhan University, July 2015 -- Present. (on leave 2017 and 2018)
Education
- Ph.D. in Economics, Stony Brook University, May 2015
- B.A. in Economics (with honors), Zhejiang University, May 2009.
Publications
- Evaluating Linear Approximations in a Two-Country Model with Occasionally Binding Borrowing Constraints, 2015 (with Alexis Anagnostopoulos; The B.E Journal of Macroeconomics, 15(1), 43-91)
- Policy Distortions, Farm Size, and the Overuse of Agricultural Chemicals in China, 2018. (with Yiyun Wu, Xican Xi, Deming Luo, Baojing Gu, Shu Kee Lam, Peter Vitousek, and Deli Chen; PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 115(27), 7010-7015)
- The Size Distribution of Firms and Industrial Water Pollution: A Quantitative Analysis of China, 2019. (Conditionally accepted by American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics; with Ji Qi and Xican Xi)
Working Papers
- The Welfare Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries, 2019. (Reject and Resubmit at Economic Journal; with Adrian Peralta-Alva, Marina M. Tavares, and Xuan S. Tam)
- This is a substantial revised version of an older IMF Working Paper (18/146).
Work in Progress
- Why Does U.S Public Debt Flow to China? 2018 (with Marina Azzimonti)
IMF Projects
- A Toolkit for Analyzing the Welfare Implications of Fiscal Policies.
- Version 2.0 Online (Updated 03/11/2019)! Download the package from GitHub.
Book Chapter:
- China’s Agriculture in the Reform: Achievements and Challenges. In A Great Transformation: The Past, Present and Prospects of China’s Reform, Chapter 1, 1-29; with Xican Xi and Haolong Xu. (In Chinese, 中文发表，改革开放中的中国农业：成就与挑战，收录于张军、王永钦编《大转型：中国经济改革的过去、现在与为来》，第一章，与奚锡灿，徐灏龙合作)
Seminar and Conference Presentations:
- 2019: Washington State University; Stony Brook University; Rowan University; IMF (SPR); NASM (Seattle).
- 2018: ASSA (Poster Session, Philadelphia); U.S Department of Agriculture (Washington D.C.); IMF, June; SED (Mexico City).
- 2017: IMF; SED (Edinburgh); U.S. International Trade Commission (Washington D.C.).
- 2016: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE); Peking University National School of Development.
- 2015: Eastern Economic Association (New York).
- 2014: U.S Department of Labor (Washington D.C.); Zhejiang University; Henan University; Canadian Economic Association (Vancouver).
Teaching Experience and Research Employment:
- Undergraduate Instructor:
- Stony Brook: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Principles of Economics, Public Finance, International Economics.
- Wuhan University: Intermediate Econometrics.
- Graduate Instructor:
- Stony Brook University: Macroeconomics: Resource Allocation and Economic Growth.
- Wuhan University: Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics, Applied Microeconometrics, Empirical and Quantitative Methods in International Trade, Foundations of Economics for International Business
- IMF Capacity Development Course:
- Macroeconomic Policies, Structural Reforms, and Income Distribution: Applications of the Heterogeneous Agents Model in Policy Analysis
- FAD-ICD-LEG-MCM-RES-SPR Macro-Structural Training: Distributional Impact of Policies and Reforms
Refereeing
- China Economic Review, The B.E Journal of Macroeconomics
Languages:
- Chinese Mandarin, Native
- English, Fluent.
Programming Language and Software Packages
- Scientific Computation
- C/C++, Fortran 90/95, MATLAB with MEX, MPI
- Statistics and Econometrics
Temporarily Suspended Research Projects
- Job Training, Financial Frictions and Unemployment Outflows, 2014 (Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, contract number DOLQ121A21885).
- Housing Investment and the Household Life-cycle Portfolio Choice Puzzle, 2013.