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| Ping Wang received a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Rochester in May 1987, being affiliated with Penn State University from 1987 to 1998 and with Vanderbilt from 1999 to 2005. His is presently Seigle Family Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis and Research Associate at NBER. His major research areas include Money and Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, Economic Theory, and Spatial/Health Economics. He has published over 50 research articles in refereed journals, including American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory (4), Journal of Monetary Economics (3), International Economic Review (4), and Review of Economics and Statistics (2). He has supervised or co-supervised 18 Ph.D. and 3 M.A. students, visited the University of Rochester, the University of Washington, Purdue University, Tilberg University, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and is a frequent visiting scholar at Academia Sinica, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the International Monetary Funds Institute, Kobe University and Kyoto University. He served as the department chair at Vanderbilt during 2002-2005, the Vice President of the Chinese Economic Association in North America during 1991-92, the President of the Chinese Economic Association in North America in 2001, and was the department chair at Washington University in St. Louis, the Vice President for Planning and Development of the East Asian Institute, an associate editor for Economics Bulletin and Pacific Economic Review, and on the editorial and advisory boards for Journal of Macroeconomics, Taipei Economic Review, and American Association for Chinese Studies. His current research focus primarily on (i) microfoundations of endogenous growth theory, (ii) intertemporally and spatially redistributive policy, (iii) search-theoretic models of labor, money and credit, (iv) agglomeration of productive economic activities, (v) labor market consequences of addiction and substance abuse, (vi) positive and normative analysis of crime, corruption and networks, (vii) economic integration and outsourcing, and (viii) two-sided micro-matching with technical progress. | |
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