Curriculum Vitae

Jau-er CHEN 

Ph.D. in Economics, NYU, 2011.

✉ jauer@ntu.edu.tw 

Curriculum Vitae:

Dissertation Advisors: Jörg Stoye (Cornell)、Jushan Bai (Columbia)、Xiaohong Chen (Yale)、Konrad Menzel (NYU)

Jau-er Chen is currently the Cathay Financial Holdings Elite Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, National Taiwan University. After completing his Ph.D. in economics at New York University in 2011, he held an Assistant Professor position at the Department of Economics, National Taiwan University (tenured in 2018), followed by Associate Professor position at the Institute for International Strategy at Tokyo International University, and subsequently an Associate Professor position before becoming Professor of Economics at Senshu University (Tokyo, Japan). He has also held visiting scholar positions at Columbia University in the City of New York, and MIT Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, he has served as adjunct faculty teaching courses for the Japan-IMF Scholarship Program, a policy paper supervisor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo, Japan), and a research affiliate at National Taiwan University (2018–2025). His research focuses on econometrics, causal machine learning in economics, and applied finance, with work appearing in the Journal of Econometrics, Empirical Economics, WIREs Computational Statistics, and other publications.

Jau-er has extensive experience teaching international students at a wide range of institutions, including liberal arts colleges, international universities, and research-intensive universities in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. He teaches in Mandarin, English, and Japanese, covering topics such as Causal Machine Learning, Econometrics, Financial Economics, and Macroeconomics. To date, he has supervised 23 undergraduate and master’s theses, among which 10 of his students have gone on to pursue doctoral studies at leading universities in the United States, Europe, and Japan, with several already having obtained their Ph.D. degrees.

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Bio.

After completing my Ph.D. in economics at New York University in 2011, I held an assistant professor position at the Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, where I was granted tenure in 2018. I then served as an associate professor at the Institute for International Strategy at Tokyo International University, a multidisciplinary research and teaching institute encompassing political science, economics, and information science, where faculty meetings and seminars involved scholars from diverse academic backgrounds (Institute Website). The university’s student body represents 90+ different countries and regions, fostering a highly international learning environment. Following that, I took on an associate professor and then a professor position at Senshu University, a Japanese institution with a 145-year history known for its strong academic traditions. Notably, it was the first institution in Japan to offer economics courses taught in Japanese. Starting February 2026, I am appointed as a full-time Professor (Cathay Financial Holdings Elite Professor) at the School of Political Science and Economics, National Taiwan University.

In addition to my full-time roles, I have held visiting scholar positions at Columbia University and the MIT Economics Department. I have also served as an adjunct faculty member and policy paper supervisor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS, Tokyo) (GRIPS Website) and have been a research affiliate at National Taiwan University since 2018. GRIPS is Japan’s premier institution for policy studies, serving as a leading think tank for formulating national strategic objectives, cultivating future leaders in the public sector, and acting as a vital platform for collaboration among government, industry, and academia both in Japan and around the world. At GRIPS, I have taught the Financial Economics course for five years. This course is funded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is attended by public sector professionals from various Asian countries, including central bank and finance ministry officials who receive IMF scholarships. Additionally, a master’s thesis by a graduate student I supervised at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies was recognized and selected as the Best Public Policy Paper of the Year at GRIPS for the 2019 academic year.

I have extensive experience teaching international students at a variety of institutions, including liberal arts colleges, international universities, and research-intensive universities in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. My courses are taught in Chinese, English, and Japanese, covering topics such as Causal Machine Learning in Economics, Financial Economics, International Finance, and Macroeconomics.

My research focuses on econometrics and causal machine learning in economics, with publications in the Journal of Econometrics, Empirical Economics, WIREs Computational Statistics, and other academic journals. I also actively contribute to the academic community as a reviewer for journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Time Series Analysis, and Empirical Economics.

From 2024 to 2026, with the support of a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI) (the acceptance rate for multi-year research funding from the Japanese government is approximately 27%), I have been conducting the research project「The Construction and Evaluation of Optimal Targeting using Causal Machine Learning in Economics」 

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