Peng Huang

 

Department of Economics                                                    Work Phone: (920) 748-8198

316 Todd Wehr Hall                                                            Cell Phone: (269) 779-6981

Ripon College                                   Email: HuangP@ripon.edu

Ripon, WI 54971                               http://www.ripon.edu/Academics/faculty/huangp/index.htm

 

 

Education

§   Ph.D., Economics, Western Michigan University, 2002-2006

§   M.A., Economics, Western Michigan University, 2002-2003

§   B.B.A., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1995-1999

            

Fields of Specialization

§   Financial Economics, Monetary Economics, International Finance, and Applied Time Series Econometrics

 

Professional Experience

§   Assistant Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, 2007-present

§   Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 2006-2007

§   Instructor, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2005-2006

§   Assistant to Chief Investment Officer, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan, 2004-2005

§   Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2003-2005

§   Instructor, College English Test Band 4, Hope School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2001-2002

 

Courses Taught

§   Principles of Macroeconomics

§   Principles of Microeconomics

§   Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

§   Money and Banking

§   Corporate Finance

 

Teaching Interests

§   Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Corporate Finance, International Finance, Statistics, and Econometrics

 

Publications

§   Conditional Risk-Return Relationship in a Time-Varying Beta Model,” with C. James Hueng. Quantitative Finance, Vol.8, No.4, June 2008, pp381-390.

§    “Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Condition,” with Carlos Vargas. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol.15, No.1, March 2006, pp 81-99.

§   Several Issues Concerning the Commercialization of High-tech in Universities,” 04/2001, Science of Science and Management of S.&T. (a Chinese major academic journal.)

 

Working Papers

§   “Interest-Rate Risk Factor and Stock Returns: A Time-Varying Factor-Loadings Model,” with C. James Hueng.

§   Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates in Asia: Evidence from a Time-Varying-Parameter Model with Conditional Heteroskedastic Disturbances,” with C. James Hueng and Ruey Yau.

§   “Do Survey Data Forecast Inflation Better? Evidence from A Time-Varying Parameter Model,” with Lezheng Liu.

 

Working in Progress

§    “How Does the Stock Market Respond to Unemployment News?”

 

Programming and Computer Skills 

§   Gauss, SAS, and EViews

 

Professional Membership 

§   American Economic Association (AEA)

§   Midwest Economic Association (MEA)

 

Conference Presentations

§   “Dynamic Inflation Forecast,” Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, March 2008.

§   Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates in Asia: Evidence from a Time-Varying-Parameter Model with Conditional Heteroskedastic Disturbances,” Midwest Economics Association, Minneapolis, March 2007

§   “Interest-Rate Risk Factor and Stock Returns: A Time-Varying Factor-Loadings Model, Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, March 2006.

§   Asymmetric Conditional Risk-Return Relationships: Evidence from a Time-Varying Beta Model, American Economics Association, Boston, January 2006.