Curriculum Vitae
Updated January 2026
Education
2012–2017
PhD, Economics
University of California, Irvine
Dissertation: "Essays on Liquidity, Monopolistic Competition, and Search Frictions"
Committee: Guillaume Rocheteau, William Branch, Fabio Milani
Committee: Guillaume Rocheteau, William Branch, Fabio Milani
2005–2009
BS, Mathematics
Stanford University
Academic & Professional Experience
Aug 2021–present
Assistant Professor
Department of Accountancy, Economics, and Finance, Hong Kong Baptist University
Oct 2017–Jul 2021
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics and Finance, Tongji University
Sep 2012–Jun 2017
Teaching Assistant
UC Irvine
Basic and intermediate micro- and macroeconomics, intermediate econometrics, game theory, global economy
Jun–Aug 2013
Research Assistant
UC Irvine
Project with Professors Linda Cohen and Amihai Glazer linking alumni university donations to patents (Bloomberg Law, Westlaw Campus)
Mar–Aug 2012
Data Analyst
ECON ONE Research, Boutique Economic Consulting Firm
Processed transaction-level data for multiple firms for an alleged horizontal price-fixing conspiracy in the polyfoam industry that settled for $433 million (primarily using SAS)
Publications
2025
Productive Demand and Sectoral Capacity Utilization
Economic Modelling — joint with Marshall Urias
2025
Unemployment and Labor Productivity Comovement: The Role of Firm Exit
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control — joint with Miroslav Gabrovski
2020
Unsecured Credit, Product Variety, and Unemployment Dynamics
Macroeconomic Dynamics
2019
Corporate Finance, Monetary Policy, and Aggregate Demand
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
2017
New Monetarism with Endogenous Product Variety and Monopolistic Competition
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
2016
Decentralizing Constrained-Efficient Allocations in the Lagos–Wright Pure Currency Economy
Journal of Economic Theory — joint with Ayushi Bajaj, Guillaume Rocheteau, and Tai-Wei Hu
Working Papers
Role of Endogenous Business Formation and Exit for Unemployment and Vacancy Dynamics
Joint with Zhesheng Qiu and Marshall Urias
Liquidity, Unemployment, and the Stock Market
Joint with William Branch
Teaching Experience
Hong Kong Baptist University, Aug 2021–present
Spring 2025, 2026
Data Analytics for Business Decision Making (BUSI 2045)
Undergraduate
Python programming-based introduction to data management and basic statistical inference; questionnaire design and hypothesis testing.
2021–2023
Advanced Macroeconomics (ECON 7800)
MSc
Key concepts in macroeconomics, computation of equilibrium, OLG models, RBC, financial frictions, endogenous firm entry, liquidity-based monetary policy, heterogeneous agents, unemployment, and demand-induced fluctuations. Course programs on GitHub.
Spring 2022, 2025
Digital Economy (ECON 4035 / ECON 7640)
Undergraduate / MSc
Central Bank Digital Currency, financial inclusion, bank deposit funding, government financial transfers; CBDC pilot projects in China, the EU, and other countries as case studies.
Tongji University, Feb 2018–Jul 2021
Spring 2019, 2020
Macroeconomics
PhD
Fall 2018, 2019, 2020
Money and Banking
MSc
Commodity money, fiat money, inflation, international monetary systems, price surprises, capital, liquidity and financial intermediation, fully backed central bank money, the payments system, bank risk, and financial multipliers.
Spring 2018, 2019
Market Structure, Innovation, and the Macroeconomy
MSc
Insights from industrial organization and imperfect competition and their aggregate implications for innovation, growth, trade, and the formation of new goods.
Grants, Honors, and Awards
2023/2024
General Research Fund (GRF)
Hong Kong Research Grants Council — Project No. 12502123
Bayesian estimation of liquidity-augmented model with endogenous business formation: application to inflation. HK$454,136.
Nov 2018
Research Fund for International Young Scientists
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fall 2017
Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
UC Irvine
2012–2017
Economics Merit Fellowship
UC Irvine
2014, 2015, 2016
Summer Research Fellowship
UC Irvine
Jun 2013
Pass with Distinction, Macroeconomics Qualifying Exam
UC Irvine
Conference Presentations and Seminars
2025
3rd Asia Pacific Search and Matching Workshop, CUHK — Society for Economic Measurement Conference, Athens (July) — Seminar, National University of Kaohsiung (May)
2024
Seminar, University of Macao (September) — Society for Economic Measurement Conference, Atlanta (August) — Hong Kong Junior Macroeconomics Workshop (May) — Money and Macroeconomics Workshop, Melbourne (March)
2023
Western Economics Association International, Melbourne (April)
2022
HKBU Junior Macro Group (August) — National Taiwan University (April)
2021
Seminar, HKBU — Seminar, Università di Roma Tor Vergata — Seminar, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
2019
Peking University HSBC, Shenzhen (Oct) — Western Economics Association International, San Francisco (July) — Seminar, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (May)
2018
Society of Economic Measurement Conference, Xiamen University (May) — Seminar, Ashoka University (April)
2017
Society for Computational Economics Conference, New York (June) — Midwest Macroeconomics, Baton Rouge (May)
2016
Western Economics Association International, Portland (June) — West Coast Search and Matching Workshop, San Francisco Fed (May) — Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Purdue University (May)
2015
Midwest Macroeconomics Workshop, St. Louis (May)
Professional Service
Associations
American Economics Association — Econometric Society — Western Economics Association International — European Economics Association
Reading Group
Hong Kong Junior Macro Group
Refereeing
Economic Inquiry — Macroeconomic Dynamics
Technical Skills & Languages
Software
Python, Julia, Matlab, R, Stata, SAS, Excel, LaTeX, Dynare, Git
Methods
Bayesian estimation (Metropolis-Hastings), panel data, structural VAR, GMM, GLM
Languages
Spanish (fluent) — Italian (conversational)