Sophia Chen
Last Updated: November 11, 2019Sophia Chen is Economist at the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. Previously she worked on the Cyprus team in the European Department (2015-2016). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. Her research interests are banking, corporate finance, and macro-financial linkages.
Email: ychen2@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/sophiachenecon/
Fluent In: Chinese.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Michigan
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania
B.Arch, Tsinghua University
Work in progress:
The Transmission and Real Effects of International Monetary Policy: Evidence from Brazil (with Leila Aghabarari, Deniz Igan, and Bernardus Van Doornik)
Divergence in Top Income Share (with Christopher D. Carroll and Pablo Winant)
Paying Bankers: Rents, Risk, and Performance (with Laura Castillo Martinez and Deniz Igan)
Sharing the Burden: Household-Level Evidence on Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union (with Deniz Igan and Victoria Wenxin Xie)
Are Innovative Firms Financially Constrained? Evidence from R&D Tax Incentives in OECD Countries (with Estelle P. Dauchy)
How Corporate Debt Bias Affects Bank Lending (with Gee Hee Hong)
The Expanding Footprint of Bank Mortgages: Genuine Diversifi.cation or Riding the Bubble? (with Lev Ratnovski and Yangfan Sun)
The Role of Market Competition in Fiscal Policy Transmission (with Yu Shi)
Field of Expertise:
Banking
Public Finance
Macro-Financial Issues
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IMF Books and Working Papers:
The Dynamics of Non-Performing Loans during Banking Crises: A New Database, Working Paper No. 19/272, December 06, 2019
Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt : Evidence form Sovereigns and Firms, Departmental Paper No.19/03, February 05, 2019
IMF Country Reports
Other Published Materials
Monetary Policy in the New Normal (with an IMF staff team), IMF Staff Discussion Note 14/3
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Publications in Journals (Refereed)
Other Published Materials
Sophia Chen is Economist at the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. Previously she worked on the Cyprus team in the European Department (2015-2016). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. Her research interests are banking, corporate finance, and macro-financial linkages.
Email: ychen2@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/sophiachenecon/
Fluent In: Chinese.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Michigan
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania
B.Arch, Tsinghua University
Work in progress:
The Transmission and Real Effects of International Monetary Policy: Evidence from Brazil (with Leila Aghabarari, Deniz Igan, and Bernardus Van Doornik)
Divergence in Top Income Share (with Christopher D. Carroll and Pablo Winant)
Paying Bankers: Rents, Risk, and Performance (with Laura Castillo Martinez and Deniz Igan)
Sharing the Burden: Household-Level Evidence on Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union (with Deniz Igan and Victoria Wenxin Xie)
Are Innovative Firms Financially Constrained? Evidence from R&D Tax Incentives in OECD Countries (with Estelle P. Dauchy)
How Corporate Debt Bias Affects Bank Lending (with Gee Hee Hong)
The Expanding Footprint of Bank Mortgages: Genuine Diversifi.cation or Riding the Bubble? (with Lev Ratnovski and Yangfan Sun)
The Role of Market Competition in Fiscal Policy Transmission (with Yu Shi)
Field of Expertise:
Banking
Public Finance
Macro-Financial Issues
IMF Books and Working Papers:
The Dynamics of Non-Performing Loans during Banking Crises: A New Database, Working Paper No. 19/272, December 06, 2019
Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt : Evidence form Sovereigns and Firms, Departmental Paper No.19/03, February 05, 2019
International Technology Sourcing and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from OECD Countries, Working Paper No. 18/51, March 12, 2018
Credit and Fiscal Multipliers in China, Working Paper No. 17/273, December 12, 2017
A Toolkit to Assess the Consistency Between Real Sector and Financial Sector Forecasts, Technical Notes and Manuals No. 17/09, June 05, 2017
Financial Information and Macroeconomic Forecasts, Working Paper No. 16/251, December 23, 2016
Does Balance Sheet Strength Drive the Investment Cycle? Evidence from Pre- and Post-Crisis Cyprus, Working Paper No. 16/248, December 22, 2016
Uncertainty and Investment: The Financial Intermediary Balance Sheet Channel, Working Paper No. 15/65, March 20, 2015
The Tax-adjusted Q Model with Intangible Assets: Theory and Evidence from Temporary Investment Tax Incentives, Working Paper No. 14/104, June 12, 2014
Financial Constraints, Intangible Assets, and Firm Dynamics: Theory and Evidence, Working Paper No. 14/88, May 14, 2014
IMF Country Reports
Other Published Materials
Monetary Policy in the New Normal (with an IMF staff team), IMF Staff Discussion Note 14/3
“The Dynamics of Non-Performing Loans”, with Anil Ari and Lev Ratnovski, IMF Departmental Paper, forthcoming.