Ping Wang 王 平 Election Year 2008 Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1208
St. Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A. Tel: (314) 935-5632 / Fax: (314) 935-4156
Current Positions
Seigle Family Distinguished Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Education
B.S., Ocean Transportation, National Chao Tung University (1979.06)
M.A., Economics, National Chengchi University (1981.07)
M.A., Economics, University of Rochester (1986.05)
Ph.D., Economics, University of Rochester (1987.05)
Professional Experience
Economic Researcher, Council for Economic Planning and Development (1981-83)
Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Rochester (1986)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Penn State University (1987-94)
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Penn State University (1994-98)
Professor, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University (1999-2005)
Senior Fellow, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (2001-05)
Chair, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University (2002-05)
Chair, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis (2005-08)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (2001-present)
Seigle Family Distinguished Professor, Washington University in St. Louis (2005-present)
Senior Research Fellow, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2013-present)
Senior Fellow, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (2015-present)
Specialties
Economics
Awards and Honors
NSF Grant (SES-8420247/8605629) via Rochester Center for Economic Research (1986-1987)
Several Research Grants by the Institute of International Relations, the 21st Century Foundation, and the United Press Foundation (1988-1998)
Several External Travel Grants by the Asian-Pacific Foundation, the Association of Chinese Social Scientists in North America, and the East Asian Research Institute (1988-1998)
NIAAA Grant (1R01-AA11657-01,02), National Institute of Health (1998-2001)
Who's Who in Economics (edited by Mark Blaug and Howard Vane, Edward Elgar) (2003)
Member of Phi Tau Phi Honorary Society (2005)
Several Research Grants by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy (1995-2014)
Best Research Paper Award, Society of Industrial Economics (2005)
Best Research Paper Award, Taiwan Economic Association (2016)
Hou-Teh Honorary Chair, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan (2009-2011)
University Honorary Chair, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (2010-present)
Kwoh-Ting Lee Honorary Chair, National Central University, Taiwan (2011-2013)
University Honorary Chair, Fengchia University, Taiwan (2015-present)
University Honorary Chair, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2017-present)