Yu-Chin Chen

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Yu-Chin Chen (born January 21, 1971) is an economist and researcher at the University of Washington. Her work covers international finance, macroeconomics, open economy macroeconomics, trade and development, and applied economics. She teaches courses such as Macroeconomic Analysis, International Financial Monetary Economics, and Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.

Chen earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1993. She then completed a Master of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School in 1996, followed by a Master of Economics in 1999 and a PhD in economics in 2002 at Harvard, with a dissertation on exchange rates and productivity. Her early career included serving as executive secretary of the Hwa Yue Foundation in Taipei (1993–1994) and working as a staff economist in the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House during the Clinton administration (1999–2000). She returned to Harvard in 2000 as an advisor to undergraduate economics and was a postdoctoral researcher from 2002 to 2003. Since 2003 she has been an associate professor at the University of Washington, where she is a Gary Waterman Distinguished Scholar and the graduate program director for the economics department. She also serves as a research associate for the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University.

Chen has held visiting research and teaching roles at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Academia Sinica in Taipei, and she was a visiting assistant professor at Harvard in 2007. Her research focuses on international finance, macroeconomics, open economy macroeconomics, trade and development, and applied economics. In 2019 she helped organize the Australasian Conference on International Macroeconomics. Her work includes studies on whether exchange rates forecast commodity prices, forecasting inflation with commodity price data, and accounting for differences in economic growth. In 2005 she received the Royalty Research Fund grant from the University of Washington.