CURRICULUM VITAE

C. James Hueng

June 2008

  • Address                      5412 Friedmann Hall
                                        Department of Economics
                                        Western Michigan University
                                        Kalamazoo, MI 49008
                                        Phone: (269) 387-5558
                                        Fax: (269) 387-5637
                                        Email: james.hueng@wmich.edu
                                        WWW Homepage: http://www.homepages.wmich.edu/~chueng.
  • Education
  • Employment
    • Associate Professor, Western Michigan University, 2006-present.
    • Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University, 2003-2006.
    • Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, 1997-2003.
  • Specialty Fields
    • Open Economy Money Demand and Monetary Policy
    • Economic Growth and Business Cycle
    • Asset Pricing and Stock Market Fluctuations
    • Applied Time Series Econometrics.
  • Publications

15    A Dual-Target Monetary Policy Rule for Open Economies: An Application to France, with Ruey Yau.
Forthcoming, Applied Economics Letters. Working paper version.

14    Conditional Risk-Return Relationship in a Time-Varying Beta Model, with Peng Huang.
Quantitative Finance, 8 (4), June 2008, pp. 381-390.  Working paper version.

13    Output Convergence Revisited: New Time Series Results on Industrialized Countries, with Ruey Yau.
Applied Economics Letters, 14 (1), January 2007, pp. 75-77. Working paper version.

12    Investor Preferences and Portfolio Selection: Is Diversification an Appropriate Strategy? with Ruey Yau.
Quantitative Finance, 6 (3), June 2006, pp. 255-271. Working paper version.

11    Short-Sales Constraints and Stock Return Asymmetry: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Markets.
Applied Financial Economics, 16 (10), June 2006, pp. 707-716.  Working paper version.

10    Using an Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply Model to Identify Structural Demand-Side and Supply-Side Shocks: Results Using a Bivariate VAR, with James Cover and Walter Enders.
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 38 (3), April 2006, pp. 777-790. Working paper version.

9       Forecasting Asymmetries in Aggregate Stock Market Returns: Evidence from Conditional Skewness, with James McDonald.
Journal of Empirical Finance, 12(5), December 2005, pp. 666-685. Working paper version.

8       Overreaction Effects Independent of Risk and Characteristics: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market, with Chaoshin Chiao.
Japan and the World Economy, 17(4), December 2005, pp. 431-455. Working paper version.

7       The Correlation Between Shocks to Output and the Price Level: Evidence from a Multivariate GARCH Model, with James Cover.
Southern Economic Journal, July 2003, pp.75-92. Working paper version.

6       Are Policy Rules Better than the Discretionary System in Taiwan? with James Cover and Ruey Yau.
Contemporary Economic Policy, 20 (1), January 2002, pp. 60-71. Working paper version.

5       Do Bubbles or Time-Varying Risk Premiums Affect Stock Prices? A Kalman Filter Approach, with Lii-Tarn Chen and Chien-Fu Jeff Lin.
Global Business and Economics Review, 2 (2), December 2000, pp. 159-171. Working paper version.

4       Sources of Persistence in Cross-Country Income Disparities: A Structural Analysis, with Ruey Yau.
Journal of Macroeconomics, 22 (4), Fall 2000, pp. 611-630. Working paper version.

3       The Impact of Foreign Variables on Domestic Money Demand: Evidence from the United Kingdom.
Journal of Economics and Finance, 24 (2), Summer 2000, pp. 97-109. Working paper version.

2       Money Demand in an Open-Economy Shopping-Time Model: An Out-of-Sample-Prediction Application to Canada.
Journal of Economics and Business, 51(6), November/December 1999, pp. 489-503. Working paper version.

1    The Demand for Money in an Open Economy: Some Evidence for Canada.
North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 9(1), Spring 1998, pp.15-31. Working paper version.

  • Awards and Honors Received
    • Harold Groves Economics Graduate Students Research Paper Award, University of Wisconsin, Fall 1993. (Best econometrics paper by first year graduate student.)
    • Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA), 1996-1997.
    • Research Award, University of Alabama, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
    • WMU College of Art and Science Faculty Teaching & Research Award (ASTRA), 2005.
  • Professional Activities
    • Book Reviews:

Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Stephen G Cecchetti, McGraw-Hill

Principles of Macroeconomics, Robert H Frank and Ben Bernanke, McGraw-Hill

The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Frederic S. Mishkin, Addison Wesley.

    • Seminar Presentation:  DePaul University, September 2007.  Sam Houston State University, November 2006.  National Taiwan University, Taiwan, June 2006.  National Central University, Taiwan, June 2006.  Soochow University, Taiwan, June 2006.  Ball State University, February 2006.  National Taiwan University, Taiwan, December 2004.  National Central University, Taiwan, December 2004.  Western Michigan University, February 2003.  University of Missouri - Rolla, February 2003.  John Carroll University, January 2003.  Rhodes College, January 2003.  National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, June 2001.  National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 1997.  University of Alabama, January 1997.
    • Conference Presentation:  American Economic Association, Boston, January 2006.  American Economic Association, Atlanta, January 2002. Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, July 2001.  Chung Hua Money and Banking Association, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2001.  Southern Economic Association, Washington D.C., November 2000.  Business & Economics Society International, Los Angeles, July 2000.  Western Economic Association International, San Diego, July 1999.  Western Economic Association International, Lake Tahoe, July 1998.  Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, March 1996.
    • Conference Chair:  American Economic Association, Boston, January 2006.  Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, July 2001.  Western Economic Association International, Lake Tahoe, July 1998.
    • Conference Discussant:  American Economic Association, Boston, January 2006.  Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, July 2001.  Business & Economics Society International, Los Angeles, July 2000.  Western Economic Association International, San Diego, July 1999.  Western Economic Association International, Lake Tahoe, June 1998.
  • Refereeing Work
    • American Economic Review (7)
    • Computational Economics (1)
    • Contemporary Economic Policy (1)
    • Defence and Peace Economics (1)
    • Eastern Economic Journal (1)
    • Economics-ejournal (1)
    • Economic Inquiry (1)
    • Empirical Economics (1)
    • Financial Review (1)
    • Global Business and Economics Review (3)
    • International Review of Economics and Finance (1)
    • International Economic Journal (1)
    • Journal of Economics and Business (9)
    • Journal of Economic Research (1)
    • Journal of Macroeconomics (3)
    • Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (10)
    • Journal of Multinational Financial Management (1)
    • Quantitative Finance (2)
    • Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (1)
    • Southern Economic Journal (2)
    • Taiwan Economic Review (1).
  • Courses Taught
    • Undergraduate:
      • Principles of Macroeconomics.
      • Intermediate Microeconomics.
      • Intermediate Macroeconomics.
      • Money and Banking
    • Ph.D.:
      • Econometrics.
      • Advanced Macroeconomic Theory.
      • Time Series Econometrics.
      • Monetary Economics.
      • Monetary Economics Workshop.
  • Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member
    • Peng Huang (chair), Economics, Western Michigan University, 2006
    • Lezheng Liu (chair), Economics, Western Michigan University, 2007
    • Jae-Kwang Hwang, Economics, University of Alabama, 1998
    • Chris Johnson, Economics, University of Alabama, 2003
    • Feijun Luo, Economics, University of Alabama, 2002
    • Guozhong Ma, Economics, University of Alabama, 2003
    • Sagarika Mishra, Economics, Western Michigan University, 2008
    • Sara Helms Robicheaux, Finance, University of Alabama,1999
    • Dawit Senbet, Economics, Western Michigan University, 2007
    • Charn Soranakom, Finance, University of Alabama, 2002

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