Education

Ph.D. in Economics, The Ohio State University, 2012
M.A. in Economics, The Ohio State University, 2007
B.A. in Economics, Zhejiang University, 2006

Areas of Specialization

Research: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Time Series Analysis
Teaching: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Microeconomics

Academic Appointment

Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton, 2019 - present
Assistant Professor, California State University Fullerton, 2012 - 2019

Publications

"Monetary Policy for Rationally Inattentive Economies with Staggered Price Setting,"  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 38, January 2014, Pages 184-208.

" Rational Inattention in Uncertain Business Cycles ,"  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 49 (1), February 2017, Pages 215-253.

"The Macroeconomic Effects of Uncertainty Shocks: The Role of the Financial Channel," with Aaron Popp,  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 69, August 2016, Pages 319-349.

"Confidence and the Transmission of Macroeconomic Uncertainty in U.S. Recessions,"  Applied Economics, Volume 49 (29), 2017, Pages 2893-2909.

"A Note on International Spillovers of Economic Policy Uncertainty across Business Cycles: Evidence from OECD Countries," with Aaron Popp, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024, 28(1), 99-111. Appendix (PDF).

Research in Progress

"Aggregate and Local Uncertainty Shocks: Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas," with Aaron Popp

"Unemployment Responses to Macroeconomic and Local Uncertainty Shocks in U.S. Metropolitan Areas," with Aaron Popp

" Economic Policy Uncertainty and Sentiment during U.S. Recessions ," with Aaron Popp

"How Institutional Investors Choose Their Private Equity Portfolios," with Yingdi Wang

Teaching

ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics

ECON 320 Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis

ECON 325 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory 

ECON 420 Money and Banking

ECON 503 Advanced Macroeconomics