CV
Contact Information
| Name | Chia-Wei (Teddy) Chen |
| Professional Title | Ph.D. Student in Economics |
| cchia-wei@wustl.edu |
Professional Summary
My research interests lie in the intersection of production networks and international economics. Specifically, I am interested in how firms respond to trade policies and adjust their decisions regarding linkages, and conversely, how linkages influence the propagation of shocks. Additionally, I am interested in the econometric modeling of these models.
Experience
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2024 - present Full-time Research Assistant, Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
- Investigated how free trade agreements affect firm’ performance in Taiwan, gaining insight of the constitutional effect on tariff reduction policies
- Contributed to the network construction of a coauthored paper on indirect exporters in Taiwan utilizing granular B2B datasets
- Initiate data management of 12 administrative datasets spanning 15 years, ensuring the validity and usability of the data for future research endeavors
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2023 - 2024 Part-time Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology
Academia Sinica
- Implemented machine learning algorithms to estimate a diffusion network, enabling insights into the technology diffusion process within US law enforcement agencies
- Conducted research on developing an optimal policy for the exhibition of organized crime through the application of a game evolutionary model
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2022 - 2022 Part-time Research Assistant, Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
- Explored the bipartite network using 5,000,000+ user-page interactions on Facebook prior to the 2016 US election
- Generated centrality measures for Facebook pages within bipartite networks of interaction to capture the dynamics of their importance during various events
- Delivered compelling narratives uncovering trends in ideological affiliations through the application of community detection on the bipartite network
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2022 - 2022 Taipei, Taiwan
Intern, AI and Big-data Engineering
H2U
- Reduced 70% work by developing a natural language processing pipeline and infrastructure for the team
- Created topic categorization for media contents with BERT, with 88% accuracy compared to manual classifications
Education
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2025 - present St. Louis, MO
Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Economics
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2021 - 2023 Taipei, Taiwan
M.A.
National Taiwan University
Economics
- Thesis: Examining the Debt-Trap Diplomacy
- Advisor: Tai-Kuang Ho
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2016 - 2020 Taipei, Taiwan
B.S.
National Taiwan University
Physics
Teaching
Tunghai University: Teaching Assistant / Instructor and Organizer for Programming — Econometrics and Empirical Applications (Fall 2022, 2023)
National Taiwan University: Teaching Assistant — Predicting Financial Crisis (Spring 2023); International Finance: The Theory, History and Econometrics (Spring 2022); Principle of Economics (Spring 2022)
Working Papers
- “Caught in a Sovereign Debt Quagmire - A Quantitative Assessment,” with Tai-Kuang Ho (under review)
- “Exporters Behind the Veil: The Role of Intermediaries in Taiwan’s Production Network,” with Erin Kao and Jin-Tan Liu
Conferences
Aug 2024: 30th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF) (Paper accepted, presented by Tai-Kaung Ho)
Skills
Programming Skills: Stata, Python, MATLAB, R
Languages
Chinese : Native
English : TOEFL iBT 109
Japanese : N3