ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS (A)
2010.04~2011.03
(1) ACADEMIC PAPERS (Collaboratively authored papers)
① Individually authored papers
- “Health Insurance, the Social Welfare System and Household Saving (under revision for resubmission),Munich RePEc Archive Paper 21281, 2010.
- “Social Insurance and the Wealth Distribution,”Economics Bulletin, 31-1, pp.687-698,2011.
② Collaboratively authored papers
- “China’s Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes,” (with Min Zhao), Munich RePEc Archive Paper 21283, 2010.
- “Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,”(with Per-Ju Liao and CC Lin), working paper, March 2011.
- “Financing Japan’s Health Care – The Impact of an Aging Population,”(with Gary Hansen and Tomoaki Yamada), Working paper, March 2011.
- “Health Insurance Reform – The Impact of a Medicare Buy-in,” (with Gary Hansen and Junsang Lee), Working paper, 2011.
- “Expanding Health Insurance: the Impact on Life Cycle Labor Supply,” (with C. Chen, C. Kuan, and P. Liao), Working paper, 2011.
- “Optimal Taxation and Risk Sharing” (with CC Yang) , Working paper, 2010.
(2) PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
- ASSA 2011 Annual Meeting (CEANA session), “Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: a Structural Analysis and Empirical Evidence,”Denver, January, 2011
- University of Tokyo, “The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Portfolio Choices and Welfare,”Tokyo, October, 2010.
- Academia Sinica, “The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Portfolio Choices and Welfare,”Taipei, September, 2010.
- The 10thSociety for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference, “Accounting for China’s Economic Growth: a Macroeconomic Analysis with Demographic Changes,”Singapore, August 2010.
- 2010 Taipei International Conference on Growth,Trade and Dynamics, “The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Portfolio Choices and Welfare,”Taipei, June 2010.
(3) OTHERS
Conference organization at GRIPS:
- International Conference of Macroeconomics and Policy, GRIPS (Tokyo), Japan, March, 2011.
2009.04~2010.03
(1) ACADEMIC PAPERS (Collaboratively authored papers)
① Individually authored papers
- “Expanding Health Insurance: Impacts on Saving and the Wealth Distribution,” working paper, 2009.
② Collaboratively authored papers
- “The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Portfolio Choices and Welfare,” (with Junsang Lee), working paper, 2009.
- “Accounting for China’s Economic Growth: a Macroeconomic Analysis with Demographic Changes,” (with Pei-Ju Liao and Min Zhao), working paper, 2009.
(2) PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
- The 2010 CEANA-ASSA, “Business Cycle Stabilization and Unemployment Insurance: Impacts on Welfare and Wealth Distribution”, Atlanta, January 2010.
- The 10th Macro Conference, “The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Portfolio Choices and Welfare”, Osaka University, December 2009.
- Development Bank of Japan, “The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Portfolio Choices and Welfare”, Tokyo, December 2009.
- The 2009 International Conference of Economic Growth, Dynamics, and Policies, “Business Cycle Stabilization and Unemployment Insurance: Impacts on Welfare and Wealth Distribution,” Tokyo, November 2009.
- The 2009 Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, “China’s Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes,” Tokyo, August 2009.
- The 15th annual conference of Computational Economic Association, “China’s Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes,” Sydney, Australia, July 2009.
- Econometric Society 2009 North America Summer Meeting, “China’s Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes,” Boston, USA, June 2009.
(3) OTHERS
- Conference Organizer, 2009 International Conference of Economic Growth, Dynamics, and Policies, November 2009.
- “Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: How to Understand the Seemingly Conflicting Evidence,” working paper, 2009 (under review).
- “Social Insurance and the Wealth Distribution,” working paper, 2009 (under review).
- “China’s Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes,” (with Min Zhao), working paper, 2009. (under review).
2008.04~2009.03
(1) ACADEMIC PAPERS (Collaboratively authored papers)
- Hsu, Minchung and Pei-Ju Liao, “Business Cycle Stabilization and Unemployment Insurance: Impacts on Welfare and Wealth Distribution,” Working Paper, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2009).
- Min Zhao and Minchung Hsu, “China’s Real Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes,” Working Paper, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2009).
(2) PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
- National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, “Removing business cycles: who gains and who loses?” Tokyo, Japan, January 2009.
- International Conference of Economic Growth, Dynamics, and Policies, “China’s Real Business Cycles and Fiscal Policies between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Policy Changes,” Tokyo, Japan, September 2008.
(3) OTHERS
- “Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: How to Understand the Seemingly Conflicting Evidence,” Working paper, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (under review).
- Conference Organizer: International Conference of Economic Growth, Dynamics, and Policies, Tokyo, Japan, September 19-20, 2008.
2007.04~2008.03
(1) ACADEMIC PAPERS (Individually authored papers)
- “Health Insurance, the Social Welfare System and Household Saving,” Working paper, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008.
- “Impacts of Expanding Health Insurance: Saving, Wealth Distribution and the Role of Social Welfare Programs,” Working paper, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008.
- “Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: Interpreting the Seemingly Conflicting Evidence,” Working paper, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2007.
(2) PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
- Taiwan Economic Association and CEANA joint Annual Meeting, “Expanding Health Insurance: Impacts on Saving and Wealth Distribution,” Taipei, December 22, 2007.
- Tokyo Macroeconomics Workshop, “Impacts of Expanding Health Insurance: Saving, Wealth Distribution and the Role of Social Welfare Programs,” Tokyo University, Tokyo, February 16, 2008.
(3) OTHERS (including papers forthcoming and under review)
- M. Hsu and P. Liao, “Financial Liberalization and Consumption Smoothing,” in progress.
- M. Hsu and P. Liao, “Gains from International Risk Sharing: do uninsurable idiosyncratic risks matter?” in progress.