Shouyong Shi is a Canadian economist

Economist

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 and member of the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 faculty. He is currently a tier 1 Canada Research Chair as well as a Research Fellow at the Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

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Shi's research focuses on topics in macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

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 and labour economics

Labour economics

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. He is Co-editor of the economics journal Annals of Economics and Finance.

Biography

Shi received his B.Sc. at 19 years of age from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

The Huazhong University of Science and Technology is a public, coeducational research university located in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university, HUST is directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China. HUST has been referred as the flagship of China's higher...

 in 1984. He later obtained M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 in 1988 and 1991 respectively.

Influential works

• Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi, "Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle", Journal of Political Economy 119 (2011), 468-510.
• Shouyong Shi, "Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts", Econometrica 77 (2009), 561-584.
• Allen Head and Shouyong Shi, "A Fundamental Theory of Exchange Rates and Direct Currency Trades", Journal of Monetary Economics 50 (2003), 1555–1591.
• Shouyong Shi, "A Directed Search Model of Inequality with Heterogeneous Skills and Skill-Biased Technology", Review of Economic Studies 69 (2002), 467–491.
• Kenneth Burdett, Shouyong Shi, Randall Wright
  Randall Wright
  Randall D. Wright is a Canadian academic macroeconomist who advanced the fields of monetary economics and labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory.- Biography :...
  
  , "Pricing and Matching with Frictions", Journal of Political Economy 109 (2001), 1060–1085.
• Shouyong Shi, "Frictional Assignment. I. Efficiency", Journal of Economic Theory 98 (2001), 232–260.
• Shouyong Shi, "A Divisible Search Model of Fiat Money", Econometrica 65 (1997), 75–102.
• Shouyong Shi, "Money and Prices: A Model of Search and Bargaining", Journal of Economic Theory 67 (1995), 467–496.

External links

• Shi's Site