I'm an econ Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University.

Research interest

• Expectation/belief formation and its macro implications
• Behavioral and heterogeneous-agent macro
• Micro data for macro questions
• Open-source economic modeling with Python

Contact information

• Email: twang80@jhu.edu
• Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Baltimore, Maryland, 21211

What's new

A Jupyter notebook of an epidemiological model of stock investors (Shiller and Pound (1989))

Co-organing the upcoming AEA session "Expectations, Beliefs and Behaviors during the Pandemic"

A discussion of HANK-SAM paper by Morten O. Ravn and Vincent Sterk (2019)

An updated draft of the inflation uncertainty paper

Presentation at the PhD-EVS

A discussion of non-homothetic preference in life-cycle by Ludwig Straub(2019)

A revised draft of the "friends and consumption" with a model of learning from social network

New working paper on how social network affected consumption responses in the pandemic

Accepted for presentation in Whitebox conference by Yale SOM

Department presentation of Perceived Income Risks. (Preliminary)

Admitted to attend the NBER behavioral macro boot camp in March

A research proposal on perceived income risks

A draft of my working paper studying the expectation formation using density forecast surveys

A Jupyter notebook illustrating dimensionality reduction for heterogeneous-agent models by Bayer & Luetticke

A Jupyter notebook illustrating how the discrete cosine transformation from image processing can be used by economists

Jupyter notebook discussion of family labor supply and asset returns

Discussion of information cascade (Bikhchandani et al. 1992)

Jupyter notebook replicating Krusell & Smith (1998) via HARK

Discussion of Coibion et al. (2015) on firm expectation

Discussion of ambiguity-averse preference