Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2024. Here is my CV.
Research interest: macro-finance, firm dynamics, and international trade
My research combines quantitative models with microdata to study how firm beliefs and market frictions shape corporate investment and financial decisions and its implications for resource allocation, shock transmission, and business cycle fluctuations.
Contact Information:
Email: zhouwe91 [at] msu.edu
Office: 207 Old Botany
Job Market Paper:
The Firm Balance Sheet Channel of Uncertainty Shocks [SSRN]
Winner of the Best Ph.D. Paper Award, Sponsored by Bank of Canada, 2023 Northern Finance Association
Donald D. Hester Dissertation Fellowship for excellence in conducting research in macroeconomics
UW-Madison Conference Presentation Award
Finalist for Best Paper Awards in Corporate Finance, FMA 2024
Presented at: UMBC, Michigan State, HKUST, CityU, PHBS, CUHK, SUFE{Econ, Finance}, AEA/ASSA (2024), Finance Down Under (2023), U.S. Treasury Department Office of Financial Research PhD Symposium (2023), Econometric Society North America Summer Meeting (2023), EEA-ESEM (2023), Northern Finance Association Ph.D. Session (2023), American Finance Association Ph.D. Poster Session (2023), Asian Meeting of Econometric Society (2023), Midwest Macro (Spring 2023, Invited session), CES North American Conference Rising Star Session (2023), UChicago BFI-Macro-Finance Research Program Summer Session for Young Scholars (2022), Wisconsin School of Business (2022), China Economist Society Annual Meeting (2022), Minnesota-Wisconsin International/Macro Workshop (Spring 2022)
Travel Grants: Becker Friedman Institute, American Finance Association, Northern Finance Association, University of Melbourne, Chinese Economists Society