Meet the Economists
Molin Zhong
[email protected]
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
- B.S., Economics, Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, 2010
- Uncertainty shocks
- Forecasting
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2020 - presentSenior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2018 - 2020Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2015 - 2018Visiting Associate Research Professor
University of Maryland
2022
- Financial and Macroeconomic Data Through the Lens of a Nonlinear Dynamic Factor Model
Pablo A. Guerrón Quintana, Alexey Khazanov, and Molin Zhong
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.027 - Macroeconomic forecasting in times of crises
Pablo Guerrón-Quintana and Molin Zhong
Journal of Applied Econometrics (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2951
See also » FRB Working Paper (2017) - Understanding Bank and Nonbank Credit Cycles: A Structural Exploration
C. Bora Durdu and Molin Zhong
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2023)
https://doi.org/0.1111/jmcb.12918
See also » FRB Working Paper (2019) - Macroeconomic and Financial Risks: A Tale of Mean and Volatility
Dario Caldara, Chiara Scotti, and Molin Zhong
International Finance Discussion Papers (2021)
https://doi.org/10.17016/IFDP.2021.1326 - A New Approach to Identifying the Real Effects of Uncertainty Shocks
Minchul Shin and Molin Zhong
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2018.1506342
See also » FRB Working Paper (2016) - Likelihood Evaluation of Models with Occasionally Binding Constraints
Pablo Cuba-Borda, Luca Guerrieri, Matteo Iacoviello, and Molin Zhong
Journal of Applied Econometrics (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2729
See also » FRB Working Paper (2019) - Measuring International Uncertainty: The Case of Korea
Minchul Shin, Boyuan Zhang, Molin Zhong, and Dong Jin Lee
Economics Letters (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.10.014
See also » FRB Working Paper (2017) - Does Realized Volatility Help Bond Yield Density Prediction?
Minchul Shin and Molin Zhong
International Journal of Forecasting (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2016.11.003
See also » FRB Working Paper (2015) - Essays in Bayesian Macroeconometrics
Molin Zhong
University of Pennsylvania (2015)
discussion
2023Chinese Economists Society North American Conference
seminar
2022University of Maryland
conference
2021CEF, IAAE, NBER-NSF SBIES, 2nd DC-VA-MD Econometrics Workshop, System Econometrics, NBER-NSF Time Series (Poster), CFE
conference
2020AEA Annual Meeting (Poster), IWH-CIREQ-GW Macroeconometric Workshop: "Forecasting and Uncertainty", CFE-CMStatistics
conference
2019North American Winter Meetings Econometric Society, WEAI Annual Conference, System Econometrics Meetings, Midwest Econometrics Group
conference
2018Federal Reserve Research Scrum, North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, IAAE, NBER EFSF Mid-Year Meetings
conference
2018Federal Reserve Board Mini-Conference on Bank Capital Regulation
discussion
2018Federal Reserve Board Conference Risk, Uncertainty, and Volatility, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings
conference
2017Georgetown GCER, Computing in Economics and Finance
discussion
2016Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings
conference
2016North American Summer Meetings Econometric Society, IAAE, System Macro Meetings, NBER EFSF Mid-Year Meetings, Midwest Econometrics, Midwest Macro
seminar
2016University of Kansas, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
conference
2015Midwest Econometrics Group Meetings, Midwest Macro Meetings
seminar
2015Federal Reserve Board, SUNY-Binghamton, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
seminar
2014Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
conference
2013OMI-SoFiE Financial Econometrics Summer School (Oxford)
Awards
- 2014
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Dissertation Intern
- 2013
University of Pennsylvania
GAPSA Research Travel Grant
- 2010
National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
Referee
- International Economic Review
- Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Review of Economic Dynamics
- Journal of Empirical Finance
- Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
- Journal of Macroeconomics
- International Journal of Central Banking
- International Journal of Forecasting
- European Economic Review
- Journal of Applied Econometrics
- International Review of Economics and Finance
- Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
- Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
- Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Journal of Forecasting
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Journal of Econometrics
- Econometric Reviews
- Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
- Economics Letters
- Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics