Prof. Chuang will be joining us for a month in late June 2014.

Yih-Chyi is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Economics at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He currently serves as the Dean of College of Social Sciences and the Director of Taiwan Study Center at NCCU. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago in 1993. He was assistant research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, from 1993 to 1994 and since August 1994 has taught at National Chengchi University, where he served as an associate professor at the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1998 and Chairman in 2010-2011. He was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA, in 1999 and Fulbright Scholar at Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University in 2003. During the summer term from 2005 to 2008, he was invited as a Guestprofessor at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.

Prof. Chuang will host a seminar on Economic Development in Mainland China on 28/29 June and 5/6 July 2014.