Yunhui Zhao
Last Updated: May 1, 2019
Yunhui Zhao is an Economist in the African Department at the IMF. He is working on the external and real sectors for Sao Tome and Principe (a program country), as well as coordinating and coauthoring an analytical chapter on trade for the April 2019 Regional Economic Outlook, a flagship publication of the African Department. Previously, he worked in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University, and an M.Sc. in Economics (Research) from London School of Economics. He has done research on housing finance, macro-financial linkage, and applied econometrics including machine learning. Two of his current research projects study macroprudential policies and the Chinese housing market, respectively.
Email: YZHAO@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://yunhuizhao.weebly.com/
Fluent In: Chinese.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, New York University, May 2016
M.Sc. in Economics (Research Track), London School of Economics, July 2010
Graduate Coursework in Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, September 2007-July 2009
Country work or Mission Assignment:
Saudi Arabia 2017 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)
Namibia 2018 FSAP
Kuwait 2019 FSAP
Sao Tome and Principe 2018 Article IV mission, and the 5th and 6th review missions
Work in progress:
Under-Developed Financial Market and Over-Developed Housing Sector in China (with Jack Favilukis, University of British Columbia; and Rengming Xie, CITIC Securities and Tsinghua University)
Field of Expertise:
Economic Modeling
Banking
Macro-Financial Issues