Yiru Wang

Yiru Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on econometrics, time series analysis, and empirical macroeconomics with applications to fiscal and monetary policy. She holds a PhD from Pompeu Fabra University, an MSc from the Barcelona School of Economics, and a BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, Pompeu Fabra University
• MSc in Economics and Finance, Barcelona School of Economics
• BSc in Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Her research explores topics such as local projections in unstable environments, latent group structures in panel data, and the Phillips curve. She develops Stata modules (e.g., classifylasso and gcrobustvar) for empirical analysis. Recent work examines policy effectiveness and non-stationarity in macroeconomic systems.

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