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

• Why has U.S. Inflation Become Harder to Forecast? Redux
  _{With Pablo A. Guerron-Quintana, work in progress}

• Financial Constraints and Price Rigidities
  _{Work in progress, short slides
    Presentation: EEA Rotterdam (2024), Green Line Macro Meeting (2024), Brown University PhD Conference (2025)}

• Tax on Inflation Policies in a Liquidity Trap
  _{With Damien Capelle, work in progress}

• Optimal Taxation of Inflation
  _{With Damien Capelle, IMF Working Paper 2023/254, R&R at AEJ Macro
    Presentation: Econometric Society NASM (2024), IMF Macro-Financial Conference* (2024)}

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

  _{* Presented by co-authors.}

Policy Work

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

• 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}