Chia-Wei (Teddy) Chen

Hi, I’m Chia-Wei (Teddy)! I’m a PhD student in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining the program, I earned a master’s degree in Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from National Taiwan University. I also spent a year as a full-time research assistant with Prof. Jin-Tan Liu.

My research interests lie at the intersection of industrial organization and international trade, with a focus on leveraging firm-level administrative data on trade and production networks.

Education

Degree	Field and year	Institution
Ph.D.	Economics, 2025 –	Washington University in St. Louis
M.A.	Economics, 2023	National Taiwan University
B.S.	Physics, 2020	National Taiwan University

Fields of Interest

• Industrial Organization and Production Network
• International Economics and Trade
• Structural Estimations and Econometrics

(Though these are currently my main interests, I am open to other empirical topics)

Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, R, Stata
• Latex (I’m sorry that I don’t count it as a programming language)
• Things I don’t consider as “skills” but I’ll still list them there because everyone does: Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• If having skills doesn’t necessarily mean I have to be good at them:
  • Web development (JavaScript, HTML — though I still use Google Sites for my personal website because I’m lazy)
  • Photography (with just one zoom lens that somehow covers all my needs)
  • Cooking (Edible. Only barely burned down the kitchen once)
  • Guitar (5 basic chords, 60+ more if you hand me a capo)

Language

• Chinese: Native
• English: Proficient. Native with ChatGPT
• Japanese: 字幕なしでもアニメちょっと分かる。会話は全然ダメ。