ZHENG ZENG, PH.D.

Associate Professor Office Phone: (419) 372-8397

Department of Economics Cell Phone: (214) 215-3650
College of Business Administration Email: zzeng@bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403

ACADEMIC DEGREES
 Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2009 (Economics)
 M.A., Southern Methodist University, 2005 (Economics)
 B.E., Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, 2003 (Finance)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
 Associate Professor, Economics Department, Bowling Green State University, August
2015-- present
 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University, August
2009 – August 2015.
 Research Assistant, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas May 2007 –
December 2007.
 Instructor, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, 2006 – 2009.

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION
 Primary: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Time Series Econometrics
 Secondary: Financial Economics, Industrial Organization

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

 Journal Article Publications
o “Is Capital Expenditure Contagious? An Analysis of UCC data from Ohio and its
Neighbors,” (with Peter VanderHart), Journal of Economics and Politics, forthcoming.
o “Credit Growth, Monetary Policy, and Economic Activity in a Three-Regime
TVAR Model,” (with Stefan A. Avdjiev), Applied Economics, 46:24, 2936-2951,
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.916391
o “Credit Demand, Credit Supply, and Economic Activity,” (with Nathan S. Balke),
2013, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Contributions, 13(1): 643–680
o “New Tips from TIPS: Identifying Inflation Expectations and the Risk Premia of
Break-Even Inflation,” 2013, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,
53 (2013), 125– 139
o “Credit Frictions and Firm Dynamics,” 2012, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol.
17(7), 1467-1495.
o “Impact of Heterogeneous Managerial Productivity on Executive Hedge Markets
in an Asymmetric Information Environment,” (with Stefan A. Avdjiev), 2009,
Finance Research Letters, Vol. 6, 187-201.

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  Papers in Progress
o “Measuring Three Sources of System Risk,” (with Michael Sherman)
o “Credit Uncertainty Cycle,” (with Nathan S. Balke and Enrique Martinez-Garcia),
o “Credit-less Recoveries and Nonlinear Propagation of Shocks: A Double-Threshold
VAR Analysis,” (with Stefan A. Avdjiev)
o “Asymmetric Interest Rate Pass-Through from Monetary Policy in a DSGE
Model,” (with Sebastian Roelands)
o “Uncertainty, Credit Market Volatility and Monetary Policy”
o “The Credit Friction Effects on Firm Heterogeneity in a Monetary Economy”
o “Heterogeneous Workers and Wage Rigidity in General Equilibrium,” (with Peter
VanderHart)

 Conference and Invited Seminar Presentations

o American Economic Association 2016 Annual Conference, January 2016
o Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting 2014, May 2014
o Western Economic Association International 2013, July 2013
o Invited Seminar, Research Department, Federal Research Bank of Dallas, May
2013
o Eastern Economic Association 2013 Annual Conference, May 2013
o American Economic Association 2012 Annual Conference, January 2012
o Southern Economic Association 2011 Annual Conference, November 2011
o Invited Seminar, Research Department, Federal Research Bank of Dallas, March
2011
o Eastern Economics Association 2011 Annual Conference, February 2011
o Southern Economic Association 2010 Annual Conference, November 2010
o Invited Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State
University, September 2010
o Western Economic Association International 2010 Annual Conference, July 2010
o American Economic Association 2010 Annual Conference, January 2010
o Midwest Economic Association 2009 Annual Conference, March 2009
 Research Support Activity
o Referee, Journal of Macroeconomics
o Referee, Journal of Economics and Politics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 Graduate Courses
o Econ 6720, Central Banking and the Financial System
o Econ 6110, Graduate Macroeconomic Theory
o Econ 6070, Graduate Econometrics
 Undergraduate Courses
o Econ 3110, Money and Banking
o Econ 3030, Intermediate Macroeconomics
o Econ 2030, Principles of Macroeconomics
o International Macro Theory and Policy

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 o Economics of Regulating Industry
o International Economic Policy
o Intermediate Microeconomics

 Student Organization Involvements

o BGSU Economics Club, guest speaker
o Financial Management Society, guest speaker

SERVICE
 College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State University
o Faculty Council Committee
o Election Subcommittee of the Faculty Council
 Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University
o Graduate Coordinator
o Graduate Committee
o Undergraduate Paper Contest Committee
o Salary Advisory Committee
o Colloquium Committee
o Evaluation of the Department Under the Leadership of the Chair Committee
o Computer Committee

HONORS AND AWARDS

 Nominated Master Teacher Award, Bowling Green State University, 2016
 Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Bowling Green State University, 2013
 Friends of the University Libraries Authors and Artists Award, Bowling Green State
University, 2013, 2014
 Summer Research Awards, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State
University, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
 Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Southern Methodist University, 2008
 Teaching Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, 2006, 2007
 Full Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship, Southern Methodist University,
2004-2006.

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