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Tao Zha is research center executive director of the Center for Quantitative Economic Research in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of economics at Emory University, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr. Zha received his doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota in December 1992. His major fields of study are macroeconomics, financial economics, the Chinese economy, and econometrics.
Dr. Zha has served on the editorial boards for several journals including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Literature, Quantitative Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and Journal of Econometrics. He has published in many academic journals, including Journal of Finance, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Brookings Papers on Economics Activity, Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, American Economic Review, and Journal of Political Economy. Three of his articles were cited by the 2011 Nobel Economic Sciences Prize Committee. In 2017, Dr. Zha was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
2021-19
The S-Curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization
Nan Li, Chris Papageorgiou, Tong Xu, and Tao Zha
July 2021
2020-19
Stock-Bond Return Correlation, Bond Risk Premium Fundamentals, and Fiscal-Monetary Policy Regime
Erica X.N. Li, Tao Zha, Ji Zhang, and Hao Zhou
October 2020
2020-16a
Monetary Stimulus amid the Infrastructure Investment Spree: Evidence from China's Loan-Level Data
Kaiji Chen, Haoyu Gao, Patrick Higgins, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
August 2020 (Revised July 2022)
2020-15
Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19
Andrew G. Atkeson, Karen Kopecky, and Tao Zha
August 2020
2020-7
Discount Shock, Price-Rent Dynamics, and the Business Cycle
Jianjun Miao, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha
May 2020
2020-6
Cyclical Lending Standards: A Structural Analysis
Kaiji Chen, Patrick Higgins, and Tao Zha
May 2020
2019-4
A Theory of Housing Demand Shocks
Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha
March 2019
2018-12
Macroeconomic Effects of China's Financial Policies
Kaiji Chen and Tao Zha
November 2018
2016-9a
Impacts of Monetary Stimulus on Credit Allocation and Macroeconomy: Evidence from China
Kaiji Chen, Patrick Higgins, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
September 2016 (Revised October 2017)
2016-7
Forecasting China's Economic Growth and Inflation
Patrick Higgins, Tao Zha, and Karen Zhong
July 2016
2016-1
What We Learn from China's Rising Shadow Banking: Exploring the Nexus of Monetary Tightening and Banks' Role in Entrusted Lending
Kaiji Chen, Jue Ren, and Tao Zha
January 2016
2015-8
Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Bank Intermediation Shocks: A Structural Approach
Kaiji Chen and Tao Zha
August 2015
2015-5
Trends and Cycles in China's Macroeconomy
Chun Chang, Kaiji Chen, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
June 2015
2014-21
The Dynamic Striated Metropolis-Hastings Sampler for High-Dimensional Models
Daniel F. Waggoner, Hongwei Wu, and Tao Zha
November 2014
2014-16
Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching DSGE Models
Andrew Foerster, Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
August 2014
2014-15
Liquidity Premia, Price-Rent Dynamics, and Business Cycles
Jianjun Miao, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha
August 2014
2013-1
Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching DSGE Models
Andrew Foerster, Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
March 2013
2011-11
Land-Price Dynamics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha
July 2011
2010-18a
Confronting Model Misspecification in Macroeconomics
Daniel F. Waggoner and Tao Zha
(Revised) February 2012
2009-5
Understanding Markov-Switching Rational Expectations Models
Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
March 2009
2009-3a
Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations: A Regime-Switching DSGE Approach
Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
(Revised) October 2010
2008-23a
Minimal State Variable Solutions to Markov-Switching Rational Expectations Models
Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
(Revised) September 2010
2008-20
Learning, Adaptive Expectations, and Technology Shocks
Kevin X.D. Huang, Zheng Liu, and Tao Zha
September 2008
2008-19
Generalizing the Taylor Principle: Comment
Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
September 2008
2008-18
Structural Vector Autoregressions: Theory of Identification and Algorithms for Inference
Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
September 2008
2007-23
Asymmetric Expectation Effects of Regime Shifts and the Great Moderation
Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
October 2007
2007-12
Understanding the New Keynesian Model When Monetary Policy Switches Regimes
Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
July 2007
2006-22
Methods for Inference in Large Multiple-Equation Markov-Switching Models
Christopher A. Sims, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
November 2006
2006-20
The Conquest of South American Inflation
Thomas Sargent, Noah Williams, and Tao Zha
November 2006
2006-19a
Indeterminacy in a Forward-Looking Regime-Switching Model
Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
(Revised) September 2007
2006-3
Transparency, Expectations, and Forecasts
Andrew Bauer, Robert A. Eisenbeis, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
April 2006
2005-27
Markov-Switching Structural Vector Autoregressions: Theory and Application
Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramírez, Daniel Waggoner, and Tao Zha
December 2005
2004-22
Shocks and Government Beliefs: The Rise and Fall of American Inflation
Thomas Sargent, Noah Williams, and Tao Zha
September 2004
2004-15
MCMC Method for Markov Mixture Simultaneous-Equation Models: A Note
Christopher A. Sims and Tao Zha
June 2004
2004-14
Were There Regime Switches in U.S. Monetary Policy?
Christopher A. Sims and Tao Zha
June 2004
2004-13
Normalization in Econometrics
James D. Hamilton, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha
June 2004
2002-19
Modest Policy Interventions
Eric M. Leeper and Tao Zha
November 2002
2002-8a
Evaluating Wall Street Journal Survey Forecasters: A Multivariate Approach
Robert Eisenbeis, Daniel Waggoner, and Tao Zha
July 2002
2000-19
Assessing Simple Policy Rules: A View from a Complete Macro Model
Eric M. Leeper and Tao Zha
October 2000
2000-8
Likelihood-Preserving Normalization in Multiple Equation Models
Daniel F. Waggoner and Tao Zha
June 2000
2000-3
A Gibbs Simulator for Restricted VAR Models
Daniel F. Waggoner and Tao Zha
March 2000
99-22
Modest Policy Interventions
Eric M. Leeper and Tao Zha
December 1999
99-21
Quantifying the Half-Life of Deviations from PPP: The Role of Economic Priors
Lutz Kilian and Tao Zha
December 1999
98-22
Conditional Forecasts in Dynamic Multivariate Models
Daniel F. Waggoner and Tao Zha
December 1998
98-12
Does Monetary Policy Generate Recessions?
Christopher A. Sims and Tao A. Zha
July 1998
97-11
Normalization, Probability Distribution, and Impulse Responses
Daniel F. Waggoner and Tao Zha
November 1997
97-7
Trends in Velocity and Policy Expectations
David B. Gordon, Eric M. Leeper, and Tao Zha
November 1997
96-13
Bayesian Methods for Dynamic Multivariate Models
Christopher A. Sims and Tao Zha
October 1996
96-8
Identification, Vector Autoregression, and Block Recursion
Tao Zha
August 1996
95-8
Bankruptcy Law Capital Allocation and Aggregate Effects: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Agent Model with Incomplete Markets
Tao Zha
October 1995
95-7
Identifying Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy Under Flexible Exchange Rates
David O. Cushman and Tao Zha
October 1995
95-6
Error Bands for Impulse Responses
Christopher A. Sims and Tao Zha
September 1995
2013-22
Land Prices and Unemployment
Zheng Liu, Jianjun Miao, and Tao Zha
September 2013
2010-1
Do Credit Constraints Amplify Macroeconomic Fluctuations?
Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha
February 2010
Karen Kopecky and Tao Zha "Impacts of COVID-19: Mitigation Efforts versus Herd Immunity." Policy Hub (2020-3).
Andrew Bauer, Robert A. Eisenbeis, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha. "Transparency, Expectations, and Forecasts." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review (2006 Q1).
Eric M. Leeper and Tao Zha. "Assessing Simple Policy Rules: A View from a Complete Macroeconomic Model." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review (2001 Q4).
Madeline Zavodny and Tao Zha. "Monetary Policy and Racial Unemployment Rates." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review (2000 Q1).
Tao Zha. "A Dynamic Multivariate Model for Use in Formulating Policy." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review (1998 Q1).
Tao Zha. "Identifying Monetary Policy: A Primer." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review (1997 Q2).
Tao Zha. "The Rise of Shadow Banking in China," macroblog. April 11, 2016.
Patrick Higgins and Tao Zha. "Examining China's Economy: A Conversation with Atlanta Fed Researchers." Economy Matters podcast. September 22, 2016.