Vu Thanh Chau

International Monetary Fund
700 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20431, U.S.A.
Email: vchau@imf.org.

Employment

Economist, International Monetary Fund, 2021 – present.
- Western Hemisphere Department (March 2023 – present).
  Country assignments: Colombia, Curacao, Sint Maarten.
- Research Department (September 2021 – March 2023)
  Development Macro division.

Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics (2015 – 2021).
- Advisors: Xavier Gabaix, Ken Rogoff, John Campbell, Adi Sunderam, Robert Barro.
Harvard University, M.A. in Economics (2020)
Princeton University, A.B. in Economics (2011 – 2015), summa cum laude.

Global Value Chains and Inflation Dynamics (2024) – joint with Taehoon Kim, John Spray, and Marina Conesa Martinez.
Unpacking Low Productivity in Colombia: Evidence from Firm-level Data (2024) – joint with Marco Arena.
International Portfolio Investments with Trade Networks (2022) – job market paper
Zipf’s Law for International Currencies (2022) – joint with Ken Rogoff and Ethan Ilzetzki.
Adapting to Climate Change: A Macro Framework (2022) – joint with Filiz Unsal and Gabriela Cugat.
Behavioral-Attention Phillips Curve: Theory and Evidences from Inflation Surveys (2020)

Policy papers:

2024: Colombia 2024 Article IV Consultation Staff Report and Selected Issues Paper (led two chapters on Productivity and Export Diversification).
2023: Curacao and Sint Maarten 2023 Article IV Consultation Staff Report; Colombia 2023 Article IV Consultation Staff Report & Selected Issues Paper (coauthored work on drivers of inflation).

2023: ASSA Annual Meeting (two sessions), IMF WHD Seminar.
2022: Princeton, Harvard University*, NBER Summer Institute, Central Bank Annual Research Meetings (CEBRA), IMF RESDM Seminar.
2021: Boston Fed, NYU Abu Dhabi, World Bank, Oxford Said, Online International Finance and Macro Seminar, Chicago Fed.
Before 2020: Sloan-Nomis Workshop on the Cognitive Foundations of Economic Behavior (2019), Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics (2018); Princeton Initiative: Money, Macro, Finance (2018), Nobel laureates Lindau Meetings (2017), Jerusalem School in Economic Theory (2016).
*Coauthor presented

First Prize and grant ($50,000) at IMF Climate Innovation Challenge (2022)
Roger L. Martin Cornerstone Graduate Student Fellowship (2020-2021)
Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2018-2019).
Joseph John Fay III and Phuong-Mai Fay Fellowship (2015-2018).
John G. Wilson Award for Best Thesis in International Economics, Princeton University (2015), supervised by Prof. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki.
Global Systemic Risk Fellowship, Princeton University (2014).
Best Junior in Economics at Princeton Award (2014).

Referee for Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Economics.
Scientific committee member: 2024 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, East & Southeast Asia (AMES-E/SE).
Co-Organizer for the Vietnam Summer School of Research (2018 – 2020).