## Sihwan Yang

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### Contact Information
- Address: 700 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20431
- Email: sihaun7777@gmail.com; syang3@imf.org
- Mobile (Personal): +1 (224) 266-8616
- Phone (Work): +1 (202) 446-4655
- Website: http://sites.google.com/view/sihwanyang

### Employment
- International Monetary Fund, 2023 –  
  - Economist  
  - Economic Modeling Division, Research Department

### Education
- University of California, Los Angeles, 2018 – 2023  
  - Ph.D. in Economics
- Seoul National University, 2017  
  - M.A. in Economics
- Seoul National University, 2015  
  - B.S. in Mathematical Science, B.A. in Economics

### Academic Interests
- Macroeconomics
- International Economics
- Network Economics

### Working Paper
- Dominant Currency Paradigm with Input-Output Linkages — Under Review
- Monetary Policy under Network-Level Bottlenecks, 2025 (with Galip Kemal Ozhan, Nicholas Sander, Sebastian Wende)

### Book Chapters / Policy Work
- What if ? The Effects of a Hard Decoupling from China on the German Economy, 2024  
  - Paris Report 2: Europe’s Economic Security (with David Baqaee, Julian Hinz, Benjamin Moll, Moritz Schularick, Feodora Teti, Joschka Wanner)
- The Great Tightening: Insights from the Recent Inflation Episode, 2024  
  - Chapter 2 in the IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2024 (with Jorge Alvarez, Emine Boz, Thomas Kroen, Alberto Musso, Galip Kemal Ozhan, Nicholas Sander, Sebastian Wende)

### Work in Progress (Draft Upon Request)
- Coping Capacity of Production Network to Climate Shocks: A Multi-regional Analysis (with Florent McIsaac)
- Resolution matters: Estimating indirect cost of disasters, from CGEs to supply-chain ABM (with P. Astudillo Estevez, J.D. Robalino, M.A. Christensen, C. Colon, S. Hallegatte, S. Juhel, F.J. McIsaac)

### Seminar and Conference Presentations (* Scheduled)
- 2025  
  - Seminar: George Washington University Shool of Business  
  - ASSA 2025 Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
- 2024  
  - Seminar: Bank of Korea  
  - 6th IMF Annual Macro-Financial Conference (Washington, DC)  
  - 2024 Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) Annual Meeting (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)  
  - 3rd Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics (Berlin, Germany)  
  - 94th Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)
- 2023  
  - Seminar: International Monetary Fund; Samsung Global Research (Virtual); Korea Capital Market Institute (Virtual); Reed College; Korea Development Institute; Korea Institute for International Economic Policy; Korea Institute of Public Finance; Singapore Management University; Yonsei University  
  - 15th FIW Research Conference ‘International Economics’ (Vienna, Austia)

### Research Experience
- Short-term Consultant, World Bank — Summer 2022, Summer 2023  
  - Task Team Leader: Florent John McIsaac (Senior Economist, World Bank)
- Research Assistant for Prof. David Baqaee, 2019 – 2022, University of California, Los Angeles

### Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, 2019 – 2023, University of California, Los Angeles  
  - Macroeconomics I (First-year PhD core, Lee Ohanian), Fall 2022  
  - Macroeconomics III (First-year PhD core, Ariel Burstein and Oleg Itskhoki), Spring 2022  
  - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Winter 2020; Spring 2021; Fall 2021  
  - Principle of Microeconomics, Fall 2019; Spring 2020; Winter 2023; Spring 2023

### Past Employment
- Junior Economist, 2016 – 2018, The Bank of Korea  
  - Macroeconomic Modeling Division, Research Department
- Military Service (Mandatory), 2011 – 2013

### Awards and Fellowships
- UCLA Best Proseminar Award in International and Development Economics, 2021 – 2022
- KITA scholarship, 2020
- UCLA Economics Department Fellowship, 2018 – 2023
- Annual Paper Competition (The Bank of Korea, Prize: 1st), 2017  
  - Topic: Effects of Global Value Chains on Productivity of Individual Industries  
  - Published at BOK Monthly Bulletin 2017-7
- National Scholarship for Science (Republic of Korea), 2009 – 2014

### Personal
- Date of Birth: May 3, 1991
- Nationality: Republic of Korea
- Visa type: G-4
- Languages: Korean (Native), English (Fluent)
- Programming: MATLAB, Python, R
- Statistical Software: STATA 14, E-views 9, SAS 9.3
- Typesetting Software: MS-office, LATEX

### References
- Oleg Itskhoki — Professor of Economics, Harvard University; itskhoki@fas.harvard.edu
- David Baqaee — Professor of Economics, UCLA; baqaee@econ.ucla.edu
- Ariel Burstein — Professor of Economics, UCLA; arielb@econ.ucla.edu

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