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Vu Chau

Development-Macroeconomics Division
Research Department, International Monetary Fund
700 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20431, U.S.A.

Email: vchau@imf.org. Website: http://www.vuthanhchau.com.

Employment

• Economist, Development – Macro Division, Research Department, International Monetary Fund (2021 – present)

Education

• 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.

Working Papers

• International Portfolio Investments with Trade Networks (2022)
• Behavioral-Attention Phillips Curve: Theory and Evidences from Inflation Surveys (2020)
• Zipf’s Law for International Currencies (2022) – joint with Ken Rogoff and Ethan Ilzetzki.
• Supply Chain Disruptions and Inflation (2022) – joint with John Spray and Taehoon Kim.
• Optimal Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Policies for Small Open Economies (2022) – joint with Filiz D. Unsal.

Presentations and Conferences

• 2023: ASSA (invited)
• 2022: Princeton University (Finance), Harvard University*, NBER Summer Institute, OECD (invited)
• 2021: Boston Fed, NYU Abu Dhabi, World Bank DEC, Oxford Said Business School, Online International Finance and Macro Seminar, Chicago Fed, London School of Economics*.
• 2019: Sloan-Nomis Workshop on the Cognitive Foundations of Economic Behavior.
• 2018: Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics; Princeton Initiative: Money, Macro, Finance.
• 2017: Nobel laureates Lindau Meetings.
• 2016: Jerusalem School in Economic Theory
  *Coauthor presented

Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

• 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).

Professional Activities

• Referee for Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
• Research assistant for Prof. Xavier Gabaix (2016-2019), Gita Gopinath (2015-2016), and Mikhail Golosov (2014).
• Co-Organizer for the Vietnam Summer School of Research (2018 – now)