Ivan Yi-Fan Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Economics,
National University of Kaohsiung

I am a quantitative economist specializing in international trade, industrial organization, and economic history and development. I am particularly interested in studying macroeconomic topics through the lens of international trade, including granular economy, labor market, and income inequality. I am also interested in studying topics related to economic history with quantitative methods.

One of my ongoing research studies the long-run effect of globalization on skill-upgrading decisions of workers and welfare gains using a quantitative trade model with international- and sectoral-linkages along with detailed micro-level data. I also study the effect of trade on family labor participation by introducing the notion of home production into a standard trade model. 

In my ongoing research in economic history, I construct a social network between businessmen and government officials to gauge firm-authority connectivity. By further combining with detailed firm-level data from a unique historical archive, I evaluate the role of such a connectivity in the configurations and performances of industrial policies with both estimation and counterfactual simulations.

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Email: yfchen@nuk.edu.tw

GitHub: github.com/AmuroRai/