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Research Division
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P.O. Box 442
St. Louis, MO 63166-0442
Phone: (314) 444-8559
Fax: (314) 444-8731
Email: Yi.Wen@stls.frb.org

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Published Papers

"Global Indeterminacy in Locally Determinate RBC Models"
with Tarek Coury
International Journal of Economic Theory, March 2009, 5(1), pp. 49-60.

"A Note on Oil Dependence and Economic Instability"
with Luís Aguiar-Conraria
Macroeconomic Dynamics, November 2008, 12(5), pp. 717-23.

"Imperfect Competition and Indeterminacy of Aggregate Output"
with Pengfei Wang
Journal of Economic Theory, November 2008, 143(1), pp. 519-40.

"Inflation Dynamics: A Cross-Country Investigation"
with Pengfei Wang
Journal of Monetary Economics, October 2007, 54(7), pp. 2004-31.

"Production and Inventory Behavior of Capital"
Annals of Economics and Finance, May 2007, 8(1), pp. 87-104.

"Uniform Working Hours and Structural Unemployment"
with Haoming Liu and Lijing Zhu
Annals of Economics and Finance, May 2007, 8(1), pp. 113-36.

"Measuring Interest Rates as Determined by Thrift and Productivity"
with Woon Gyu Choi
Annals of Economics and Finance, May 2007, 8(1), pp. 159-87.

"Understanding the Large Negative Impact of Oil Shocks"
with Luís Aguiar-Conraria
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, June 2007, 39(4), pp. 925-44.

"What's Unique About the Federal Funds Rate? Evidence From a Spectral Perspective"
with Lucio Sarno and Daniel L. Thornton
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, April 2007, 69(2), pp. 293-319.

"By Force of Demand: Explaining International Comovements"
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, January 2007, 31(1), pp. 1-23.

"Another Look at Sticky Prices and Output Persistence"
with Pengfei Wang
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, December 2006, 30(12), pp. 2533-52.

"Demand Shocks and Economic Fluctuations"
Economics Letters, March 2006, 90(3), pp. 373-83.

"Understanding the Inventory Cycle"
Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2005, 52(8), pp. 1533-55.

"Endogenous Money or Sticky Prices? Comment on Monetary Non-Neutrality and Inflation Dynamics"
with Pengfei Wang
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, August 2005, 29(8), pp. 1361-83.

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Articles Published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

"Granger Causality and Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2007, 89(3), pp. 195-205.

Working Papers

2010-005A "Dissecting Taylor Rules in a Structural VAR" - January 2010
with Woon Gyu Choi
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2009-045B "Saving and Growth under Borrowing Constraints: -- Explaining the 'High Saving Rate' Puzzle" - September 2009, Revised October 2009
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2009-029B "Speculative Bubbles and Financial Crisis" - June 2009, Revised July 2009
with Pengfei Wang
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2009-026B "An Analytical Approach to Buffer-Stock Saving under Borrowing Constraints" - June 2009, Revised July 2009
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2009-024A "When does Heterogeneity Matter?" - May 2009
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2009-022C "Financial Development and Economic Volatility: A Unified Explanation" - April 2009, Revised May 2009
with Pengfei Wang
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Commentary

"Can Monetary Policy Affect GDP Growth?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Monetary Trends, May 2009.

"Why Do Chinese Households Save So Much?"
with Luke M. Shimek
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis International Economic Trends, August 2008.

"Oil Shocks and Price Stability"
with Luke M. Shimek
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Monetary Trends, December 2007.

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Education

Degree Institution Major Date
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Economics
1996
M.A. Notre Dame University
Southbend, Indiana
Philosophy of Science 1991
B.S. West China University of Medical Sciences
Medical Sciences 1987

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