Jing Cynthia Wu  吴菁

Dillon Hall Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research 

Co-Editor: Journal of Financial Econometrics

Associate/Board of Editors:  AEJ: Macro, JMCB, JBES

Email: j.cynthia.wu@gmail.com


Curriculum Vitae   Google Scholar    

02/06/2020 "The Economic Outlook, Monetary Policy, and the Demand for Reserves" by Federal Reserve Vice Chair Randal K. Quarles at the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York. 

01/04/2020 "The New Tools of Monetary Policy" by Ben Bernanke at American Economic Association Presidential Address

09/11/2019 "The Fed Doesn't Want Negative Interest Rates Even Though Trump Does" on Bloomberg.

06/26/2019 "The Fed's Chicago Shindig" on Alt-M.

06/20/2019 "A Revival of Research on Monetary Policy Rules for the Instruments" by Stanford Professor John Taylor on Economics One.

06/13/2019 "In favor of QE" on e-axses.

06/06/2019 "Fed’s Dot Plot, QE, Average Inflation: Fed Conference Takeaways" on Bloomberg.

06/06/2019 "The Federal Reserve is reviewing its monetary-policy framework" on The Economist.

06/05/2019 "The Federal Reserve’s Review of Its Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communication Practices" By Federal Reserve Vice Chair  Richard H. Clarida at the Conference on Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communication Practices (A Fed Listens Event), Chicago.  

06/04/2019 "Seven Papers That May Shape How the Fed Sets Monetary Policy" on Bloomberg.

06/03/2019 "MNI POLICY: Larger Balance Sheet Comes With Costs -Paper"  on MNI.

06/03/2019 "Economists to present model showing success of unconventional monetary policies to Fed officials"  on Notre Dame News.

05/06/2019 Guest Contribution: “Evaluating Central Banks’ Tool Kit: Past, Present, and Future”  on Econbrowser.

08/31/2020 "The Federal Reserve’s New Monetary Policy Framework: A Robust Evolution" by Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard H. Clarida at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.

07/15/2019 "NBER paper outlines 'four-equation model' " on centralbanking. 

01/21/2022 "This Fed Meeting Is Crucial. Future Rate Hikes Are Just the Start" on Barron's. 

February/2020 "Automatic Stabilizers in a Low-Rate Environment" by Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers on Peterson Institute for International Economics.  

01/04/2020 "The New Tools of Monetary Policy" by Ben Bernanke at American Economic Association Presidential Address

05/16/2019 "Monetary Policy Framework Review" by the President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Neel Kashkari, Santa Barbara. 

03/13/2019 "Was Trump Right About the Fed Raising Interest Rates Too Far, Too Fast?", on The Street.

12/06/2018 "Why Trump Might Be Right About Interest Rates" on The New York Times.

11/26/2018 "Ominous omen? A look at how Fed tightening episodes usually end" on Financial Times. 

09/28/2018 "What Is the Federal Reserve Really Up To?" on Barron's. 

09/28/2017 "Global Outlook Improves" on Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

02/09/2017 "The 'shadow rate' can measure the effects of QE" on Chicago Booth Review.

07/19/2016 "Fed Hike of 3.375% Lurks in the Shadows" on PIMCO Blog.

07/07/2016 "The Real Term Spread and Recessions" by University of Winsconsin professor Menzie Chinn on Econbrowser.

06/15/2016 "The Yield Curve Should Be Flatter, According to BNP Paribas" on Bloomberg news.

06/14/2016 "GUNDLACH: It's going to be a rocky summer" on Business Insider.

05/18/2016 "The Fed Has Tightened Policy A Lot More Than You Think" on Bloomberg news.

03/08/2016 "'Connect the Dots': Jeff Gundlach's latest presentation on markets, the economy, and what happens next" on Business Insider.

02/09/2016 "The Expected Real Interest Rate in the Long Run: Time Series Evidence with the Effective Lower Bound" on Federal Reserve Board's FEDS Notes.

11/13/2015 "The Shadow Rate Casts Gloom" on Euro Pacific.

11/08/2015 "Preparing for lift-off" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

11/04/2015 "The Bank Of Japan Could Do More Than This" on Forbes.

10/14/2015 "Rates and Recession Risk: The Fed’s Catch-22" on The Wall Street Journal.

07/21/2015 "Fed, Markets Not in Step for Rates Dance" on The Wall Street Journal.

05/14/2015 "Interesting New Work on Yield Curve Modeling" by UPenn professor Frank Diebold on No Hesitations.

12/05/2014 "Central bank rates deep in shadow" by Bruegel.

09/11/2014 "Quantifying the macroeconomic effects of large-scale asset purchases" on VOX.

09/03/2014 "Investors Should Fear Fed's Rate Shadow" on The Wall Street Journal.

August/2014 "Shadowing the Central Banks" by Trilogy Global Advisors

07/21/2014 "Evaluating Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound" on Federan Reserve Bank of Kasas City's The Macro Bulletin.

07/16/2014 "Taylor Rule Legislation" by Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, David Papell and Ruxandra Prodan on Econbrowser.

07/10/2014 "Operating in a "Shadow Rate" World - Fed Funds Closer to Negative 3%" on Financeial Sense.

06/17/2014 "Is Fed intervention effective? Ask the 'shadow' rate" on Capital Ideas.

06/09/2014 "Study: Bernanke's Fed Lowered the Jobless Rate by One Percentage Point" on Bloomberg Businessweek.

05/06/2014 "The ECB must – and can – act" by Bruegel.

03/23/2014 "Graphs of key economic trends" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

02/24/2014 "The week ahead in economics: The money supply, heavyweights, Janet Yellen and GDP" on The Washington Examiner.

02/21/2014 "What Is the Stance of Monetary Policy?" by executive vice president and research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta David Altig on macroblog.

01/31/2014 "Bernanke Secret Sauce Drops Fed Rate as QE Quantified: Economy" on Bloomberg news.

01/12/2014 "European monetary policy and the yield curve" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

12/15/2013 "Federal Reserve control of the short-term interest rate" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

12/14/2013 "Global action needed on fiscal front" on The Sydney Morning Herald.

12/10/2013 "The Looming Lost Decade" by Princeton visiting professor Ashoka Mody on Project Syndicate.

11/29/2013 "Revisiting Fischer Black's deathbed paper" on Prof. Jayanth Varma's Financial Markets Blog.

11/24/2013 "Forward rates and monetary tightening" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

11/20/2013 "The Shadow Knows (the Fed Funds Rate)" by Pat Higgins and Brent Meyer on macroblog of Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

11/17/2013 "Bubbles? Nope, but they're working on it" on Free Market/Agent.

11/13/2013 "Too Much QE? Yes, Without A Shadow Of A Doubt" on Seeking Alpha.

11/10/2013 "Summarizing monetary policy" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

11/04/2013 "Advanced Economy Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Economies" by Governor of the Federal Reserve System Jerome Powell, at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 2013 Asia Economic Policy Conference.

01/04/2020 The New Tools of Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke at American Economic Association Presidential Address

04/09/2019 "The Federal Reserve's Review of Its Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communication Practices" by Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard H. Clarida at Fed Listens: Distributional Consequences of the Cycle and Monetary Policy Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis.

05/26/2015 "The Federal Reserve and the Global Economy" by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer at the conference held in honor of Professor Haim Ben-Shahar, Tel Aviv, Israel.

05/26/2015 "FED VICE CHAIR FISCHER: 'We should also expect spillovers when monetary policy is tightened' " on Business Insider.

03/23/2015 "Monetary Policy Lessons and the Way Ahead" by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer at the Economic Club of New York, New York.

02/27/2015 "Conducting Monetary Policy with a Large Balance Sheet" by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer at 2015 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York.

10/28/2014 "How Effective Were Fed Bond Buys? What the QE Research Says" on The Wall Street Journal.

10/11/2014 "The Federal Reserve and the Global Economy" by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer at 2014 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.

08/17/2014 "The Treasury and the Fed are at Loggerheads over QE" by UCLA professor Roger Farmer on My Economic Window.

08/09/2014 "Why Death Matters for Central Bank Policy" by UCLA professor Roger Farmer on My Economic Window.

10/18/2013 "Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Unconventional Monetary Policy" by the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco John Williams, at the NBER Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.

10/03/2013 "Will Unconventional Monetary Policy Be the New Normal?" by the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco John Williams, at UC San Diego Economic Roundtable.

06/27/2013 "Thoughts on Unconventional Monetary Policy" by Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

03/04/2013 "Challenges Confronting Monetary Policy" by Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen at the 2013 National Association for Business Economics Policy Conference, Washington, D.C.

03/01/2013 "Long-Term Interest Rates" by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Annual Monetary/Macroeconomics Conference: The Past and Future of Monetary Policy, San Francisco, California.

11/16/2012 "Debt Maturity" by Chicago Booth professor John Cochrane on The Grumpy Economist.

11/13/2012 "The Federal Reserve’s Unconventional Policies" by the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco John Williams, at the University of California, Irvine.

08/31/2012 "Monetary Policy since the Onset of the Crisis" by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

07/24/2012 "The academics on QE… for now" on Financial Times Alphaville.

10/03/2011 "Unconventional Monetary Policy: Lessons from the Past Three Years" by the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco John Williams, at the Swiss National Bank Research Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.

09/25/2011 "Bernanke’s Operation Twist May Be Undermined by Geithner’s Long Bond Sales" on Bloomberg news.

09/23/2011 "Effects of operation twist" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

07/13/2011 "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress" by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

06/30/2011 Summary of Hamilton and Wu (2011): "The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a  Zero  Lower  Bound  Environment." by St. Louis Fed’s research staff.

02/25/2011 "Unconventional Monetary Policy and Central Bank Communications" by Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York, New York.

01/08/2011 "The Federal Reserve's Asset Purchase Program" by Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen, at the The Brimmer Policy Forum, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

12/11/2010 "Evaluating QE2" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

11/19/2010 "Emerging from the Crisis: Where Do We Stand?" by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Sixth European Central Bank Central Banking Conference, Frankfurt, Germany.

10/26/2010 "Maturity Matters" by Paul Krugman on The New York Times.

10/15/2010 "Monetary Policy Objectives and Tools in a Low-Inflation Environment" by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Revisiting Monetary Policy in a Low-Inflation Environment Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.

02/09/2017 "The 'shadow rate' can measure the effects of QE" on Chicago Booth Review.

09/02/2014 "The price of policy uncertainty" on Capital Ideas.

04/25/2014 "Yield Curve Modeling Update" by UPenn professor Frank Diebold on No Hesitations.

01/15/2014 "DNS/AFNS Yield Curve Modeling FAQ's" by UPenn professor Frank Diebold on No Hesitations.

Spring 2013 "Wu Unveils Important New Paper on Non-Gaussian Affine Term Structure Models" in The KU Economist.

07/08/2013 "What Caused the Decline in Long-term Yields?" in Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter.

08/30/2012 "Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound" by Michael Woodford at 2012 Economic Policy Symposium,Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

09/02/2014 "Do speculators really inflate commodity prices?" on Capital Ideas.

01/01/2014 "A lack of ethics" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

05/27/2012 "Commodity index funds and oil prices" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

05/23/2012 "Commodity index funds and agricultural prices" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

09/02/2014 "Do speculators really inflate commodity prices?" on Capital Ideas.

09/16/2013 "Normal Backwardation Foiled Going Forward" by Christopher Faille on AllAboutAlpha, the blog of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts (CAIA) Association.

10/04/2011 "Round Two. Does Speculation Cause High Food Prices? " by University of Illinois professor Scott Irwin on Big Picture Agriculture.

09/21/2011 "Changing behavior of crude oil futures prices" by UCSD professor Jim Hamilton on Econbrowser.

01/15/2014 "DNS/AFNS Yield Curve Modeling FAQ's" by UPenn professor Frank Diebold on No Hesitations.

02/15/2017 "Another uncommon idea: Overshoot inflation targets" on Chicago Booth Review.

05/03/2016 "A Possible Cure for Japan's Low Inflation" by University of Rochester Professor Narayana Kocherlakota on Bloomberg View.

02/25/2014 "How central bankers can better control inflation" on Capital Ideas.

07/08/2013 "What Caused the Decline in Long-term Yields?" in Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter.