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Home | People | Yao Chen
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Yao Chen

Research Fellow

University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Research field
Macroeconomics
Interests
Economic History, International Economics, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Biography

Yao Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics and a CEPR Research Affiliate. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2018. Her research interests are in the area of international macroeconomics, monetary policy, and economic history.

List of publications

Chen, Y. and Ward, F. (2025). Output divergence in fixed exchange rate regimes Journal of International Economics, 157:.

Chen, Y., Ward, F., Palma, N. and Brzezinski, A. (2024). The Vagaries of the Sea: Evidence on the Real Effects of Money from Maritime Disasters in the Spanish Empire Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(5):1220--1235.

Chen, Y. and Ward, F. (2018). When do fixed exchange rates work? Evidence from the Gold Standard Journal of International Economics, 116:158--172.