Vanessa Nguyen

Vanessa Nguyen serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Lawrence University, teaching core economics curriculum since her 2022 appointment. Her instructional portfolio includes ECON100 Introductory Economics, ECON221/BUEN221 Money and Banking, ECON320 Macroeconomic Theory, ECON420 Money and Monetary Policy, and FRST110 First Year Studies with water-themed interdisciplinary content.

Academic credentials:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Kansas
• M.A. in Economics, Kobe University

Research expertise spans critical macroeconomic domains:

• Monetary Policy transmission mechanisms
• Open economy macroeconomic modeling
• Inflation dynamics and welfare implications
• Money supply measurement methodologies

Her scholarly work addresses contemporary challenges in monetary economics, particularly examining policy effectiveness in globally integrated financial systems and welfare outcomes from monetary interventions.