Contact Information

3133 Sproul Hall
Phone: (951) 827-1588
Fax: (951) 827-5685
Email: mailto:guojt@ucr.edu

Curriculum Vitae 

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Economics, 1993
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Economics, 1989
• B.A., National Taiwan University, Business Administration, 1985

Research

• Sunspots, Self-Fulfilling Beliefs in Real Business Cycle Models
• Indeterminacy and Stabilization Policy
• Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability
• Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance
• Dynamic Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation
• International Real Business Cycles 
• Monetary Stability and Endogenous Growth
• Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Quality 
• Dynamic Optimal Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles
• Monopolistic Competition, Firm Size and Welfare
• Income Inequality and Economic Growth
• Exchange-Rate Exposure of Firms

Research Papers

• "A Note on Indeterminacy and Investment Adjustment Costs in an Endogenously Growing Small OpenEconomy," with Chi-Ting Chin and Ching-Chong Lai.
• "First-Best Fiscal Policy with Social Status," with Juin-Jen Chang.
• "Dynamic Income Taxation without Commitment: Comparing Alternative Tax Systems," with Alan Krause.
• "Progressive Taxation and Macroeconomic (In)stability with Productive Government Spending," with Shu-Hua Chen.
• "Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Education Expenditures," with Alan Krause.
• "On Expectations-Driven Business Cycles in Economies with Production Externalities: A Comment," with Anca-Ioana Sirbu and Richard M.H. Suen.
• "Optimal Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxation under Loose Commitment," with Alan Krause.
• "Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxation with Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting and No Commitment," with Alan Krause

• "On Indeterminacy and Growth under Progressive Taxation and Productive Government Spending," with Shu-Hua Chen.
• "News about Aggregate Demand and the Business Cycle," with Anca-Ioana Sirbu and Mark Weder.