SERENE TAN Curriculum Vitae December 2014 Department of Economics National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences AS2 Level 6, 1 Arts Link Singapore 117570 Email Homepage
Personal: Date of birth - July 10, 1977 Singapore citizen Married with two children
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[email protected] : http://sites.google.com/site/serenetaneconomics/homepage
Research Interests:
Search and Matching Theory, Labor Economics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics
Teaching Interests:
Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Monetary Economics, Labor Economics
EMPLOYMENT 07/2013 -
Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics National University of Singapore
01/2012 – 07/2013
Senior Lecturer, School of Economics University of Adelaide
07/2005 – 06/2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics National University of Singapore
07/2000 – 06/2005
Senior Tutor, Department of Economics National University of Singapore
EDUCATION Ph.D.
Economics
University of Pennsylvania Title of Dissertation: Essays in Search Theory Committee: Ken Burdett (chair), Randall Wright, Jan Eeckhout
06/2005
B.Soc.Sci.
Economics
National University of Singapore (graduated with First Class Honors)
06/2000
B.A.
Economics
National University of Singapore
06/1999
PUBLICATIONS “Money and Asset Prices with Uninsurable Risks”, December 2012, with Nicolas L. Jacquet, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 59(8), 784-797. Previously circulated under the title “The Liquidity Effects of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices.”
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“Wage-Vacancy Contracts and Coordination Frictions,” May 2012, with Nicolas L. Jacquet, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 147, 1064-1104. “Directed Search and Firm Size,” February 2012, International Economic Review, Vol. 53(1), 95-113. “Money, Bargaining, and Risk Sharing,” October 2011, with Nicolas L. Jacquet, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43(7) (Supplement), 419-442. “On the Segmentation of Markets,” August 2007, with Nicolas L. Jacquet, Journal of Political Economy, 115(4), 639-664. “Matching with Multiple Applications Revisited,” 2004, with James Albrecht, Pieter Gautier, and Susan Vroman, Economics Letters, 84(3), 311-4.
WORK IN PROGRESS “Does Risk Aversion Matter in Directed Search Models?”, with Nicolas L. Jacquet and John Kennes. “Information Acquisition and Competition” (tentative title), with Nicolas Jacquet and Jacob Wong. “Illiquid Housing and Households’ Portfolio Choice,” with Nicolas L. Jacquet. “Money, Liquidity and Asset Prices with Endogenously Incomplete Markets,” with Nicolas L. Jacquet.
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS “Search, Heterogeneity, and the Dynamics of Segmentation,” 2005, with Nicolas L. Jacquet. “Matching with Multiple Applications: A Correction,” July 2003.
CONFERENCES/SEMINARS University of Tokyo 2014; Monash University 2013; Australian National University 2013; University of Adelaide 2011; Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory 2010; University of Oxford, 2008; Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Taipei, 2007; the Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, 2006; National University of Singapore Brownbag 2005; National University of Singapore, 2005; Penn Search and Matching Mini-Conference, 2005.
REFEREEING Economics Bulletin, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies.
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AWARDS 2010: Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; nominated for University Teaching Excellence Award 07/2000 – 06/2005: Overseas Graduate Scholarship, awarded by the National University of Singapore
TEACHING EXPERIENCE At the undergraduate level at the University of Adelaide: •
Macroeconomics III/IIID (intermediate) :
Semester 2 of 2012
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Macroeconomics I (introductory)
Semester 1 of 2013 (taught 1/3 of the course)
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At the undergraduate level at the National University of Singapore: •
Microeconomics II (Intermediate)
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Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2009
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Macroeconomics I (Introductory)
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Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2015
LANGUAGES English (native), Mandarin (near native), German (two years of German classes), basic French.
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