Yi Wen Assistant Vice President

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1 Generated: October 2018 Yi Wen Assistant Vice President Joined the Bank Staff May, 2005 Education Areas of Interest Ph.D. Economics, University of Iowa, 1996 M.A. Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame University, 1991 B.S. Medical Sciences, West China University of Medical Sciences, 1987 Macroeconomics, Chinese Economy Previous Experience Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Forthcoming Papers "Is Government Spending a Free Lunch? --- Evidence from China," with Xin Wang, FORTHCOMING: Pacific Economic Review. Journal Publications "Withstanding Great Recession like China," with Jing Wu, Manchester School, , Publisher DOI: "Financial Development and Long-Run Volatility Trends," with Pengfei Wang, Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2018, Vol. 28, pp "Escaping the Middle-income Trap A Cross-Country Analysis on the Patterns of Industrial Upgrading," with Lili Wang, Advances in Economics and Business, January 2018, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp

2 "The Great Housing Boom of China," with Kaiji Chen, American Economic Journal- Macroeconomics, April 2017, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp "Two-Way Capital Flows and Global Imbalances," with Pengfei Wang and Zhiwei Xu, Economic Journal, February 2017, Vol. 127, No. 599, pp "Self-Fulfilling Credit Cycles," with Costas Azariadis and Leo Kaas, Review of Economic Studies, October 2016, Vol. 83, No. 4, pp , Publisher DOI: "Credit Search and Credit Cycles," with Feng Dong and Pengfei Wang, Economic Theory, February 2016, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp "What Inventories Tell Us About Aggregate Fluctuations -- A Tractable Approach To (S,s) Policies," with Pengfei Wang and Zhiwei Xu, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, July 2014, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp "Money, Liquidity and Welfare," European Economic Review, May 2015, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp "Sentiments and Aggregate Demand Fluctuations," with Jess Benhabib and Pengfei Wang, Econometrica, March 2015, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp "Leveraged Borrowing and Boom-Bust Cycles," with Patrick A. Pintus, Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2013, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp "Hayashi Meets Kiyotaki and Moore: A Theory of Capital Adjustment Costs," with Pengfei Wang, Review of Economic Dynamics, September 2012, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp "Speculative Bubbles and Financial Crisis," with Pengfei Wang, American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, July 2012, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp "Housing Prices and the High Chinese Saving Rate Puzzle," with Xin Wang, China Economic Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp "OPEC's Oil Exporting Strategy and Macroeconomic (In)Stability," with Luís Aguiar- Conraria, Energy Economics, January 2012, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp "Input and Output Inventory Dynamics," American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, October 2011, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp "Understanding the Effects of Technology Shocks," with Pengfei Wang, Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2011, Vol. 4, No. 14, pp

3 "Input and Output Inventory Dynamics," American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, October 2011, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp "Volatility, Growth, and Welfare," with Pengfei Wang, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, October 2011, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp "Global Indeterminacy in Locally Determinate RBC Models," with Tarek Coury, International Journal of Economic Theory, March, Vol. 1, pp "A Note on Oil Dependence and Economic Instability," with Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Macroeconomic Dynamics, November 2008, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp "Imperfect Competition and Indeterminacy of Aggregate Output," with Pengfei Wang, Journal of Economic Theory, November 2008, Vol. 143, No. 1, pp "Inflation Dynamics: A Cross-Country Investigation," with Pengfei Wang, Journal of Monetary Economics, October 2007, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp "Understanding the Large Negative Impact of Oil Shocks," with Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, June 2007, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp "Uniform Working Hours and Structural Unemployment," with Haoming Liu and Lijing Zhu, Annals of Economics and Finance, May 2007, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp "Production and Inventory Behavior of Capital," Annals of Economics and Finance, May, Vol. 8(1), pp "Uniform Working Hours and Structural Unemployment," with Haoming Liu and Lijing Zhu, Annals of Economics and Finance, May 2007, Vol. 8(1), pp "What's Unique About the Federal Funds Rate? Evidence From a Spectral Perspective," with Lucio Sarno and Daniel L. Thornton, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, April 2007, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp "Measuring Interest Rates as Determined by Thrift and Productivity," with Woon Gyu Choi, Annals of Economics and Finance, May, Vol. 8(1), pp "By Force of Demand: Explaining International Comovements," Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, January 2007, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp "Another Look at Sticky Prices and Output Persistence," with Pengfei Wang, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, December 2006, Vol. 12, No. 30, pp

4 "Demand Shocks and Economic Fluctuations," Economics Letters, March 2006, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp "Understanding the Inventory Cycle," Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2005, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp "Endogenous Money or Sticky Prices? Comment On Monetary Non-Neutrality and Inflation Dynamics," with Pengfei Wang, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, August 2005, Vol. 29, No. 8, pp "What Does It Take To Explain Procyclical Productivity?" Contributions to Macroeconomics, June 2004, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp "Indeterminacy, Aggregate Demand, And The Real Business Cycle," with Jess Benhabib, Journal of Monetary Economics, April 2004, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp "The Business Cycle Effects of Christmas," Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2002, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp "A Generalized Method of Impulse Identification," Economics Letters, December 2001, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp "Joint Time-Frequency Distributions for Business Cycle Analysis," with Sharif Md. Raihan and Bing Zeng, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, December 2001, Vol. 2252, No. 2001, pp "Residential Investment and Economic Growth," Annals of Economics and Finance, November 2001, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp "Understanding Self-Fulfilling Rational Expectations Equilibria In Real-Business-Cycle Models," Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, August 2001, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp "A Simple Nonlinear Filter For Economic Time Series Analysis," with Bing Zeng, Economics Letters, August 1999, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp "Can A Real Business Cycle Model Pass The Watson Test?" Journal of Monetary Economics, August 1998, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp "Capacity Utilization Under Increasing Returns To Scale," Journal of Economic Theory, August 1998, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp "Investment Cycles," Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, May 1998, Vol. 22, No. 7, pp

5 "Indeterminacy, Dynamic Adjustment Costs, And Cycles," Economics Letters, May 1998, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp Working Papers "International Credit Markets and Global Business Cycles," with Patrick A. Pintus and Xiaochuan Xin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, October "Long and Plosser Meet Bewley and Lucas," with Feng Dong, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, October "A Search-Based Neoclassical Model of Capital Reallocation," with Feng Dong and Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, August "Optimal Ramsey Capital Income Taxation A Reappraisal," with YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, February "Is Government Spending a Free Lunch? --- Evidence from China," with Xin Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, November "Flight to What? ---Dissecting Liquidity Shortages in the Financial Crisis," with Feng Dong, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, October "Institutions Do Not Rule: Reassessing the Driving Forces of Economic Development," with Jinfeng Luo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, July "Optimal Monetary Policy under Negative Interest Rate," with Feng Dong, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, July "The Inverted Leading Indicator Property and Redistribution Effect of the Interest Rate," with Patrick A. Pintus and Xiaochuan Xin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, February "Interest Rate Dynamics, Variable-Rate Loan Contracts, and the Business Cycle," with Patrick A. Pintus and Xiaochuan Xin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, March "The Making of an Economic Superpower---Unlocking China s Secret of Rapid Industrialization," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, August "QE: When and How Should the Fed Exit?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, July

6 "Evaluating Unconventional Monetary Policies Why Aren t They More Effective?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, October "Uncertainty and Sentiment-Driven Equilibria," with Jess Benhabib and Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, March "Liquidity and Welfare," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, September "Capital, Finance, and Trade Collapse," with Yang Jiao, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, February "Explaining China's Trade Imbalance Puzzle," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, August "Making Sense of China s Excessive Foreign Reserves," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, February "Lucas meets Baumol and Tobin," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, October "Saving and Growth under Borrowing Constraints: -- Explaining the "High Saving Rate" Puzzle," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, May "Liquidity Demand and Welfare in a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, March "Dissecting Taylor Rules in a Structural VAR," with Woon Gyu Choi, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, January "Incomplete information and self-fulfilling prophecies," with Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, July "An Analytical Approach to Buffer-Stock Saving under Borrowing Constraints," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, July "Excessive Demand and Boom-Bust Cycle," with Patrick A. Pintus, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, June "When does Heterogeneity Matter?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, May "Liquidity and Welfare in a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, May

7 "Financial Development and Economic Volatility: A Unified Explanation," with Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, May "Inventory Accelerator in General Equilibrium," with Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, March "Inventories, Liquidity, and the Macroeconomy," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, December "Granger Causality and Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, April "Imperfect Competition and Sunspots," with Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, March "Solving Linear Difference Systems with Lagged Expectations by a Method of Undetermined Coefficients," with Pengfei Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper C, January "Wavelet: A New Tool for Business Cycle Analysis," with Sharif Md. Raihan and Bing Zeng, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, June "Foreign Trade and Equilibrium Indeterminacy," with Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, June "Where's the Beef? The Trivial Dynamics of Real Business Cycle Models," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, June "Labor Hoarding and Inventories," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper B, June "The Multiplier: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Multi-Stage-Fabrication Economy with Inventories," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, June "The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy: An Assessment," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, June "Durable Good Inventories and the Volatility of Production: Explaining the Less Volatile U.S. Economy," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper A, June

8 Articles in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Publications "The Visible Hand: The Role of Government in China s Long-Awaited Industrial Revolution," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Third Quarter 2016, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp "Relative Income Traps," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, First Quarter 2016, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp "When and How To Exit Quantitative Easing?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Third Quarter 2014, Vol. 96, No. 3, pp "Dynamics of Externalities: A Second-Order Perspective," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2011, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp "Can Rising Housing Prices Explain China s High Household Saving Rate?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2011, Vol. 93, No. 2, pp "Granger Causality and Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2007, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp