Annie Hsu

Annie Hsu is a Lecturer at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, joining the institution in 2023. She teaches courses including Public Finance and Budgeting (SPEA 375A), Financial and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Contemporary Economic Issues in Public Affairs, and Financial Management.

Her educational background:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Houston
• M.A. in Economics, University of Houston
• B.S. in Public Finance, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan

Dr. Hsu specializes in public finance and economics with focus on urban economics and public policy. Her research investigates urban decline factors and local government responses to economic shifts through policy measures, examining business cycles, economic shocks, natural disasters, and intergovernmental strategies. Work in public economics spans public budgeting, taxation, subsidies, and fiscal policy behavior, while urban economics research covers regional economic spatial distributions, transport economics, and population dynamics.

Scientific awards: None identified in available information.

She contributed to government projects including the SAM project for small-area population forecasting in the Houston Metropolitan Region and served as a research fellow with the World Inequality Database, developing global historical income/wealth distribution resources. Professional engagement includes maintaining academic repositories on GitHub for course materials and research code.

Laboratory or dedicated research team information was not specified in source materials.