Job Title

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

 

Telephone

010-62758598

 

Email

henniganchristian@pku.edu.cn

 

Address

Room 445, School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China

 

Office Hour

Monday 10am-12pm

 

Educational Background

Ph.D., Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2022

M.A., Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2017

B.S., Economics, University of Tulsa, Spring 2014

B.A., French Literature, University of Tulsa, Spring 2014

B.A., Philosophy, University of Tulsa, Spring 2014

 

Work Experience

2022/09 – present, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University

 

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Computational Economics

 

Working Papers

“Globally Optimal Monetary Policy” (Job Market Paper)

“The Primal Hamiltonian: Tractability for Stochastic Two-Stage Problems”

“Optimal Window-length for Average Inflation Targeting”

 

Current Research Projects

“Calvo-esque: A Calvo Model with Inflation Sluggishness”

“Deflation Dynamics during Financial Crises”

 

Other Projects

“Monetary Policy with Sectoral Heterogeneity and Barriers to Capital Flow

“Inflation Expectation Dynamics during Deflationary Episodes in Japan”

“Machine Learning Methods for Maximum Likelihood Estimation” (with Jiannan Zhou)