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    <p2>I am currently a senior economist at the Bank of Canada.</p2> 
	<h3 style="color:#CD5C5C"> Research interest</h3>
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	<li>Expectation/belief formation and its macro implications </li>
	<li>Behavioral and heterogeneous-agent macro </li>
	<li>Micro data for macro questions </li>
	<li>Open-source computational economics with Python </li>
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	<h3 style="color:#CD5C5C"> Contact information </h3>
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	 <li>Email: taowangeconomics@gmail.com</li>
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	<h3 style="color:#CD5C5C"> What's new </h3>
	<li><a href="https://taowangecon.github.io/papers/PURML.pdf">A new paper draft on perceived unemployment risks (comments welcomed!)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429212400165X?dgcid=coauthor">Publication of the social network paper in the European Economic Review </a></li>
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	<li><a>Scheduled presentation at NASMES (Nashville) and IAAE 2024 (Thessaloniki)</a></li>
	<li><a>Scheduled presentation at T2M (Amsterdam) and SED 2024 (Barcelona)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://taowangecon.github.io/presentation/EpiExpSocial.pdf">A presentation on Epidemiological Expectations at University of Ottawa </a></li> 
	<li><a href="https://taowangecon.github.io/papers/SubjectiveModels.pdf">A new working paper on subjective macroeconomic models </a></li> 

	<li><a href="https://taowangecon.github.io/presentation/FreshStart.pdf">Reading group presentation on consumer bankruptcy </a></li> 
	<li><a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2024/preliminary/1929?q=eNqrVipOLS7OzM8LqSxIVbKqhnGVrJQMlWp1lBKLi_OTgRwjIyUdpZLUolxcIBvISkmshDBKMnNTIayyzNRykAFFBQVAAVMDkO6CxHSQLJANXDCiUh53">Scheduled presentation at ASSA (2024) (San Antonio, Texas) </a></li> 
	<li><a>Scheduled presentation at IAAE annual conference (Oslo), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Virtual), and EEA-ESEM (Barcelona).</a></li> 
	<li><a href="https://sndeecon.org/filer/dokumentarkiv/10032023_2023_snde_progam_031023.pdf">Presented at the SNDE Symposium</a></li> 
	<li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128229279000343"><em>Handbook of Economic Expectations</em> available online</a></li> 
	<li><a href="https://sndeecon.org">Scheduled presentation at the SNDE-2022 Symposium for Young Researchers</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://editorialexpress.com/conference/MMMfall22/program/MMMfall22.html">Scheduled presentation at the Midwest Macro</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.esabologna2022.com">Presented at the University of Bologna</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.economics.ku.dk/Calendar/workshopskonferencer/health-economics-workshop/">Presented at the University of Copenhagen</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://behavioralmacro-workshop.com">Presented in the 4th Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/llorracc/EpiExp/blob/master/docs/EpiExp-NBER.pdf"> A new working paper on epidemiological models of expectation formation via social interactions</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/llorracc/EpiExp/blob/master/SIR_Ndlib.ipynb"> A Jupyter notebook of an epidemiological model of stock investors (Shiller and Pound (1989)) </a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2022/preliminary/1271?q=eNqrVipOLS7OzM8LqSxIVbKqhnGVrJQMlWp1lBKLi_OTgRwlHaWS1KJcXAgrJbESKpSZmwphlWWmloO0FxUUXDAFTA1AegsS00GyRkq1XDBuoh4V",style="color:#3498db"> Co-organing the upcoming AEA session "Expectations, Beliefs and Behaviors during the Pandemic" </a></li>
	<li><a href="/presentation/HANK_SAM_Discussion.pdf">A discussion of HANK-SAM paper by Morten O. Ravn and Vincent Sterk (2019)</a></li>
	<li><a href="/papers/InfVar.pdf" >An updated draft of the inflation uncertainty paper</a></li>
	
	<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/phd-evs2020/past-presentations?authuser=0">Presentation at the PhD-EVS</a></li>
	<li><a href="/presentation/ConsumptionNLPermanentIncome_Discussion.pdf">A discussion of non-homothetic preference in life-cycle by Ludwig Straub(2019)</a></li>

	<li><a href="/papers/Makridis,Wang - Learning from Friends.pdf">A revised draft of the "friends and consumption" with a model of learning from social network</a></li>
	<li><a href="/papers/Makridis,Wang%20-%20Learning%20from%20Friends.pdf">New working paper on how social network affected consumption responses in the pandemic</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://som.yale.edu/event/2020/05/whitebox-advisors-graduate-student-conference-2020" >Accepted for presentation in Whitebox conference by Yale SOM</a></li>
	<li><a href="/presentation/PerceivedIncomeRisk.pdf">Department presentation of <em>Perceived Income Risks</em>. (Preliminary)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.nber.org/callforpapers/callpapersbehavioralmacro_bootcamp.html">Admitted to attend the NBER behavioral macro boot camp in March</a></li>
	<li><a href="/papers/PerceivedIncomeRiskProposal.pdf">A research proposal on perceived income risks</a></li>
	<li><a href="/papers/InfVar.pdf">A draft of my working paper studying the expectation formation using density forecast surveys</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/iworld1991/HARK/blob/master/HARK/BayerLuetticke/notebooks/DCT-Copula-Illustration.ipynb"> A Jupyter notebook illustrating dimensionality reduction for heterogeneous-agent models by Bayer & Luetticke </a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/iworld1991/HARK/blob/master/HARK/BayerLuetticke/notebooks/DCT.ipynb"> A Jupyter notebook illustrating how the discrete cosine transformation from image processing can be used by economists</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/econ-ark/ballpark/blob/master/empirical/Results-That-Beg-For-A-Model/dpFamilyLaborAssets/WangTao_dpFamilyLaborAssets.ipynb"> Jupyter notebook discussion of family labor supply and asset returns</a></li>
	<li><a href="/presentation/InformationCascadeFads.pdf">Discussion of information cascade (Bikhchandani et al. 1992)</a></li> 
	<li><a href="https://github.com/econ-ark/KrusellSmith/blob/master/Code/Python/KrusellSmith.ipynb"> Jupyter notebook replicating Krusell & Smith (1998) via HARK</a></li>
	<li><a href="/presentation/Expectation.pdf">Discussion of Coibion et al. (2015) on firms' inflation expectations</a></li>
        <li><a href="/presentation/AmbiguitySlides.pdf">Discussion of ambiguity-averse preference</a></li>
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