Rong Ma

Dissertation Title: “Three Essays on International Banking” ,Defended on Nov. 8 2011
Specializations: International Economics, Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics

• Teaching/Research Assistant, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI,
  September 2007 - Present
  
• Full teaching responsibility for a Principles of Macroeconomics class and a Principle of Microeconomics class, September 2010 - Present.
  Assisted undergraduate courses with the main responsibilities being tutoring and grading: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Latin American Economies, International Economics and Intro Econometrics. September 2007 – June 2010.

• United Nations, New York, NY, June 2010 - August 2010.

Participated in project "Inspira", which was designed to evaluate the efficiency of the new UN employment system. I was responsible for condensing large volumes of data into clear, concise, easy to understand observations. I also applied statistical models, such as survival analysis model to evaluate and monitor data.

• W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, September 2009 - June 2010.

Worked with senior economists on a few projects, one on privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, one on FDI in Lithuania, and another one on the effects of large employers on the U.S. local labor market. I collected data from different resources and organized raw survey data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I also did econometric programming on the data, writing summarizing reports, and reviewing literature.

• Professional Translating Services, Inc., Miami, FL, March 2007 - August 2007. 

As part of the management team, I was responsible for meeting with international clients, understanding their business, developing innovative business solutions, setting up new projects, and monitoring work processes. During my post, I managed the setting up of the Delta China website and the Clinique Hong Kong website.

St. Thomas University, Miami, FL, February 2006 - March 2007.

Contributed to the book “The GreenwoodEncyclopaedia of Asian American Literature”
edited by Guiyou Huang mainly with data collection and analysis: collected and translated related literature, wrote academic reports; conducted surveys, and analysed the survey results with statistical method.

• Agricultural Bank of China, Yunnan, China, January 2005 - January 2006.

• "International Labor Migration and Foreign Bank Penetration in Developing Economies" (with Susan Pozo), Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2012) 1240004 (17 pages).

• “Foreign Banks and Financial Stability: Evidence from Asia and Latin America”
• “Bank Performance and Foreign Ownership: Do Bank Origin and Recipient Location    Matter?”
• “Testing the Trade Creation Effects of High and Low-Skilled Immigrants” (with Kun  Zhao)

• "Bank Performance and Foreign Ownership: Do Bank Origin and Recipient Location Matter?" Midwest Economics Association Meeting, March 2011.
• “Foreign Banks and Financial Stability: Evidence from Asia and Latin America,”        Missouri Valley Economic Association, October, 2010.
• “Foreign Banks and Financial Stability: Evidence from Asia and Latin America,”       WMU Economics Department Research Seminar, October, 2010.

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Western Michigan University, Fall 2007 to present
• SAS Certified Base Programmer, 2012.
• American Economic Association, 2011
• Midwest Economics Association, 2011
• Missouri Valley Economic Association, 2010
• Certificated International Civil Servant, United Nations, July 2010 
• Distinguished Treasurer of ACSS at Western Michigan University, Fall 2008
• Distinguished Student Leader Awards, Yunnan University, Fall 2004

• Combined background in economics and finance.
• Five years of experience in quantitative analyses. Proficient in using SAS, STATA, EXCEL, EVIEWS, and SPSS.
• Four years of experience working with large panel datasets, time series and survey data, including BvD Orbis, BankScope, Thomson One Banker, among many others.
• Languages: English (Fluent), Chinese (Native)

• Tennis, Biking, Photography, Painting, and Traveling.

• Susan Pozo, Ph.D. (Dissertation Chair)                                
  Department of Economics                        
  Western Michigan University                    
  Kalamazoo, MI 49008                          
  Phone: 269-387-5553                           
  Email: susan.pozo@wmich.edu    

• Debasri Mukherjee, Ph.D.                    
  Department of Economics
  Western Michigan University
  Kalamazoo, MI 49008
  Phone: 269-387-5544     
  Email: debasri.mukherjee@wmich.edu 
     

•  Huizhong Zhou, Ph.D.         
  Department of Economics
  Western Michigan University
  Kalamazoo, MI 49008
  Phone: 269-387-5550     
  Email: huizhong.zhou@wmich.edu