Welcome

I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at Boston College. I share my research work and data on this site.

Email: yang.liu.7@bc.edu

CV: here

Research

[1]   Financial Constraints and Price Rigidities
_{Working paper . Presentation: EEA Rotterdam (2024), Green Line Macro Meeting (2024), Brown University PhD Conference (2025)}

[2]   Optimal Taxation of Inflation
_{With Damien Capelle, IMF Working Paper 2023/254, Conditionally accepted by AEJ Macro . Presentation: Econometric Society NASM (2024), IMF Macro-Financial Conference* (2024)}

[3]   Financial Heterogeneity, Investment, and Firm Interactions
_{IMF Working Paper 2023/110 . Presentation: EEA Barcelona (2023), Midwest Econometrics (2023)}

  _{* Presented by co-authors.}

Work in Progress

[1]   Why has U.S. Inflation Become Harder to Forecast? Redux
_{With Pablo A. Guerron-Quintana}

[2]   Pricing Out of Financial Constraints
_{With Damien Capelle, Francesco Grigoli, Nan Li, and Miguel Sarmiento}

[3]   Tax on Inflation Policies in a Liquidity Trap
_{With Damien Capelle}

[4]   Inflation and Competition under Production Constraints

Policy Work

[1]   Banks’ Joint Exposure to Market and Run Risk
_{With Alexander Copestake and Divya Kirti, IMF Working Paper 2023/200}

[2]   Tracking Economic and Financial Policies During COVID-19: An Announcement-Level Database
_{With Divya Kirti, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Prachi Mishra, and Jan Strasky, IMF Working Paper 2022/114}