Shu-Chun S. Yang
Last Updated: February 10, 2013Shu-Chun Susan Yang is an economist in the Research Department of the IMF since June 2010. Before joining the IMF, she was a Principal Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. Before that, she worked as an Assistant Research Fellow at Academic Sinica, as an Economist at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, and as an Assistant Professor at John Carroll University.
Email: syang@imf.org
Fluent In: Chinese.
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University, Economics, 2003
M.A., University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, 1995
Refereed Activities:
Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Inquiry, National Tax Journal, European Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary, Credit and Banking, Academia Economic Papers, Taiwan Economic Review, CBO Paper, Grant Proposals for National Science Council of Taiwan, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsGrant, Proposals for Research Grant Council Hong Kong, World Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, NSF proposal, Contemporary Economic Policy, International Economic Review
Current Position:
Senior Economist, Development Macroeconomics Division, Research Department
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies: An Application to Angola, Working Paper No. 13/147, June 12, 2013
The Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction: Applications to Papua New Guinea, Working Paper No. 13/138, May 31, 2013
Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries, Working Paper No. 12/274, November 15, 2012
Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows, Working Paper No. 12/153, June 01, 2012
The Effects of Government Spending under Limited Capital Mobility, Working Paper No. 12/129, May 01, 2012
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S., Working Paper No. 10/243, November 01, 2010
Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus, Working Paper No. 10/229, October 01, 2010
Publications in Refereed Journals
“Quantifying Tax Effects under Policy Foresight,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005, 52(8), 1557-1568
“Tentative Evidence of Tax Foresight,” Economics Letters, 2007, 96 (July), 30-37
“Do Capital Income Tax Cuts Trickle Down?” National Tax Journal, 2007, 60 (3), 551-567
“Dynamic Scoring: Alternative Financing Schemes,” with Eric M. Leeper, Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92, 159-182
“Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus,” with Eric Leeper and Todd Walker, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010, 57(8), 1000-1012
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S.", with Nora Traum, European Economic Review, 2011, 55(1), 140-164
"Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows", with Eric M. Leeper and Todd B. Walker, Econometrica (forthcoming)
“Government Investment in Resource Abundant Developing Countries,” with Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, and Felipe Zanna, IMF Economic Review (forthcoming)
Other/Non-IMF Publications
“Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2010 and 2011” (main contributor), January 2010, Congressional Budget Office
“The Economic Impact of Rising Federal Debt” (main contributor) in Chapter 1 of Long-Term Budget Outlook, June 2009, pp. 14-18, Congressional Budget Office
“Forecast of Taiwanese Economy: Outlook of 2008, Domestic Demand” Taiwan Economic Forecast and Policy, 2008, 39(1), 147-152 (in Chinese)
“Background Information about the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model Used by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in the Macroeconomic Analysis of Tax Policy,” JCX-52-06, December 2006, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress
Shu-Chun Susan Yang is an economist in the Research Department of the IMF since June 2010. Before joining the IMF, she was a Principal Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. Before that, she worked as an Assistant Research Fellow at Academic Sinica, as an Economist at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, and as an Assistant Professor at John Carroll University.
Email: syang@imf.org
Fluent In: Chinese.
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University, Economics, 2003
M.A., University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, 1995
Refereed Activities:
Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Inquiry, National Tax Journal, European Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary, Credit and Banking, Academia Economic Papers, Taiwan Economic Review, CBO Paper, Grant Proposals for National Science Council of Taiwan, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsGrant, Proposals for Research Grant Council Hong Kong, World Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, NSF proposal, Contemporary Economic Policy, International Economic Review
Current Position:
Senior Economist, Development Macroeconomics Division, Research Department
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies: An Application to Angola, Working Paper No. 13/147, June 12, 2013
The Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction: Applications to Papua New Guinea, Working Paper No. 13/138, May 31, 2013
Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries, Working Paper No. 12/274, November 15, 2012
Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows, Working Paper No. 12/153, June 01, 2012
The Effects of Government Spending under Limited Capital Mobility, Working Paper No. 12/129, May 01, 2012
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S., Working Paper No. 10/243, November 01, 2010
Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus, Working Paper No. 10/229, October 01, 2010
Publications in Refereed Journals
“Quantifying Tax Effects under Policy Foresight,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005, 52(8), 1557-1568
“Tentative Evidence of Tax Foresight,” Economics Letters, 2007, 96 (July), 30-37
“Do Capital Income Tax Cuts Trickle Down?” National Tax Journal, 2007, 60 (3), 551-567
“Dynamic Scoring: Alternative Financing Schemes,” with Eric M. Leeper, Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92, 159-182
“Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus,” with Eric Leeper and Todd Walker, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010, 57(8), 1000-1012
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S.", with Nora Traum, European Economic Review, 2011, 55(1), 140-164
"Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows", with Eric M. Leeper and Todd B. Walker, Econometrica (forthcoming)
“Government Investment in Resource Abundant Developing Countries,” with Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, and Felipe Zanna, IMF Economic Review (forthcoming)
Other/Non-IMF Publications
“Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2010 and 2011” (main contributor), January 2010, Congressional Budget Office
“The Economic Impact of Rising Federal Debt” (main contributor) in Chapter 1 of Long-Term Budget Outlook, June 2009, pp. 14-18, Congressional Budget Office
“Forecast of Taiwanese Economy: Outlook of 2008, Domestic Demand” Taiwan Economic Forecast and Policy, 2008, 39(1), 147-152 (in Chinese)
“Background Information about the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model Used by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in the Macroeconomic Analysis of Tax Policy,” JCX-52-06, December 2006, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress