主 讲 人：冯志刚教授
单 位：伊利诺伊大学香槟分校
讲座题目：Mandated Benefits,Entrepreneurship and Talent Misallocation
（强制保险待遇，创业行为与人才配置失衡）
时 间：2014年6月20上午（周五）9：30---11：30
地 点：文泉楼北208室
举办单位：yl34511线路中心
城乡社区社会管理湖北省协同创新中心
冯志刚教授简介：
ZHIGANG FENG
Department of Economics Office: +1 217 333 0120
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cell: +1 305 979 0483
David Kinley Hall E-mail: zgfeng@illinois.edu
1407 W. Gregory, Urbana Web: http://z.feng2.googlepages.com
Illinois 61801 Citizenship: Chinese (US Permanent Resident)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor 2013-present
Purdue University Krannert School of Management
Assistant Professor 2012 – 2013
University of Zurich Department of Banking and Finance
Research Fellow 2009 – 2012
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Research Division
Visiting Scholar March 2014
July, August 2013
June, November 2010
RESEARCH FIELDS
Quantitative Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing, Public Finance, Fiscal Policy
RESEARCH PAPERS
Publications and Working Papers
Time Consistent Optimal Fiscal Policy over the Business Cycle, Quantitative Economics, forthcoming.
Numerical Simulation of Non-optimal Dynamic Equilibrium Models, with Jianjun Miao, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Manuel Santos, International Economic Review, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2014), Page 83-110.
Tackling Indeterminacy in the Overlapping Generations Model, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research: Volume 77, Issue 3 (2013), Page 445-457
Macroeconomic Analysis of Universal Coverage in the U.S., Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction 2010 (pp. 87-96). New York: Springer.
The Effect of Capital Taxation on Capital Accumulation and Welfare, with Begona Dominguez, R&R at Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Indeterminacy and Asset Price Volatility in Stochastic OLG Model, with Matthew Hoelle,
R&R at Quantitative Economics.
Why do Americans Work so much more than Europeans? The Role of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Uncertain Health Expenditures, with Kai Zhao.
Macroeconomic Consequences of Alternative Reforms to the Health Insurance System in the U.S.
Consequences of Valuing Health: A Macroeconomic Perspective, with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras.
Welfare analysis of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama-Care), with Hui He
Research in Progress
Mandated Benefits, Entrepreneurship and Talent Misallocation. with David Chivers and Anne Villamil.
Should Investment Expenses be Fully and Immediately Tax Deductible?, with Begona Dominguez..
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics 2009
Thesis: On the Computation of Heterogeneous Agent Models and Its Applications
Advisors: Adrian Peralta-Alva and Manuel Santos
The University of Miami Department of Economics
M.A. in Economics 2006
The University of Miami Department of Economics
M.A. in Economics 2003
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law School of Economics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Level
Quantitative Macro (PhD), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2014
Macro Theory (PhD core), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2013
Macro Labor (second year PhD), Purdue University, Spring 2013
Intermediate Economics (MA), Purdue University, Spring 2013
Recursive method in macroeconomics (PhD), University of Zurich, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
Computational Economics (PhD), Zurich Initiative on Computational Economics, Summer 2011
Undergraduate level
Intermediate Macroeconomics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Purdue University, Fall 2012
Principles of Microeconomics, University of Miami, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008
Principles of Macroeconomics, University of Miami, Spring 2009
INVITED SEMINARS
2014, University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2013, SUNY Stony Brook, Congressional Budget Office, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, University of Miami.
2012, University of Delaware, University of Konstanz, University of Miami, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Texas A&M, Purdue University.
2011, Florida International University, University of Zurich.
2010, Fed of St. Louis, Peking University, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.
2009, CUNY at Queens, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Tilburg University, University of Zurich.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2013, 13th SAET Conference, Midwest Macro Meeting.
2012, Midwest Macro Meeting, 12th SAET Conference, National Tax Association 105th Annual Conference on Taxation.
2011, 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, 8th World Congress on Health Economics, Operations Research 2011 Conference.
2010, North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Royal Economic Society Conference, 10th SAET Conference on Current Trend in Economics.
2009, Midwest Macro Meeting, Zurich Center for Computational Financial Economics – 1st annual workshop.
2008, 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Refereeing Activity
Applied Economics, China Economic Review, Computational Economics, Econometrica, Frontiers of Economics in China, Handbook of Computational Economics, Journal of Economic Theory (4), Journal of Economic Dynamic and Control, Journal of Mathematical Economics (5), Macroeconomic Dynamics, National Science Foundation, Quantitative Economic.
Professional Membership
American Economic Association, Econometrics Society, Royal Economic Association, Society for Computational Economics, International Health Economics Association, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
Session Chair
2010, Royal Economic Society Conference.
Discussant
2012, FINRISK 9th Research Workshop at Gerzensee Seminar Center.
Students
University of Zurich: Thomas Rosenberger, John Sulger Buel.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011, Swiss National Computing Center production project.
2008, Summer Research Travel Fund, University of Miami.
2007, Fellow, Institute on Computational Economics, University of Chicago.
2007, Florence Bayuk Award for the Best Third Year Research Paper, University of Miami.
2004-2009, Graduate Scholarship, University of Miami.
REFERENCES
Available upon request