HSU, Minchung

• 
  • Position:
    Assistant Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  Specialty:
  Macroeconomics, Health Insurance, Social Insurance, Demographic Changes and Growth, Public Policy, Economic Dynamics
• Current Research Interests :
  Saving and wealth distribution, social Insurance system, business cycles, macroeconomic policies Sharing
• Professional Career:
  

  2007~	Assistant Professor, GRIPS
  2009	Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan University (summer)
  2007	Ph.D. (Economics), UCLA

• Selected publications:
  

  - Health Insurance, Saving, and Social Welfare System

  1.	The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Asset Holdings and Welfare (with Junsang Lee), forthcoming, Macroeconomic Dynamics
  2.	Social Insurance and the Wealth Distribution, 2011, Economics Bulletin
  3.	Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving - A Structural Analysis, 2011, MPRA Working Paper 32975 (2nd revision for resubmitting to Review of Economic Dynamics)
  4.	Financing National Health Insurance: Challenge of Fast Population Aging (with Per-Ju Liao), 2011, working paper (under review)
  5.	Health Insurance Reform - The Impact of a Medicare Buy-in (with Gary Hansen and Junsang Lee) , in progress
  6.	Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (with Per-Ju Liao and CC Lin), 2011, working paper.
  7.	Financing Health Care in Japan: A Fast Aging Population and the Dilemma of Reforms (with Tomoaki Yamada), 2011 working paper.
  8.	Portfolio choice and Tax-Preferred Health Savings Accounts (with Chih-Ting Ching) , in progress
  9.	Expanding Health Insurance: The Impact on Life Cycle Labor Supply (with CL Chen, CM Kuan, and PJ Liao), in progress

  - China Study

  1.	Is Consumption more Volatile than Output in China? (with Min Zhao), 2010, working paper (revised and resubmitted).
  2.	China's Business Cycles between 1954 - 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes (with Min Zhao), 2009, MPRA Paper 21283
  3.	Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment into China: Do Tax Incentives Matter? (with Yanqing Zhao), 2011, working paper

  - Demographic Changes and Economic Growth

  1.	Accounting for China's Long-term Growth: How Important is Demographic Change 2010 (with Pei-Ju Liao and Min Zhao), working paper (under review).
  2.	Population Policy and Economic Growth: Impacts of Deviation from the One-Child Policy in China, 2009 (with Pei-Ju Liao and Min Zhao), working paper

  - Public Finance

  1.	Characterizing optimal linear and two-bracket income taxes quantitatively, 2011 (with CC Yang), 2011, working paper
  2.	Estimation of the Real Tax Burden in Taiwan: the Hidden Tax from State-Owned Enterprises, March 2002

• Other notable activities and achievements:
  Honors and Awards
  JSPS Research Grant 2010-2012
  UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship 2006-2007
  Dissertation Fellowship for Taiwan Students Abroad, Taiwan Ministry of Education 2005-2006
  Advancement to Candidacy Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA Winter 2005
  Honors Pass of Second-year Field Exam in Asset Pricing, UCLA 2004
  Dr. Yuan-Suan Sun Scholarship, Taiwan 1993-1997
  
  Academic Service
  

  1.	Journal Referee: American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Academia Economic Papers, Bulletin of Economic Research
  2.	Conference organizer: 2008 - 2010 GRIPS International Conference of Macroeconomics and Policy

• e-mail: minchunghsu
  
  
• CV
  HSU, Minchung's CV