Senior Research Economist and Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Tao Wu is a senior research economist and advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. His main research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics, and time series econometrics. His recent research focuses on combining the structural macroeconometrics modeling with the modern asset-pricing theory and examining the joint dynamics of macroeconomy and the financial asset prices, in particular the term structure of interest rates.

Wu's research papers have been published in leading economics journals including the Economic Journal, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. They have also drawn extensive attention from media such as Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters News, the U.S. News and World Report, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. One of his recently published research papers, "A Macro-Finance Model of the Term Structure, Monetary Policy, and the Economy" (co-authored with Glenn Rudebusch), was awarded the Best Paper Prize by the Royal Economic Society in 2008. According to a ranking study conducted by RePEc in 2009, Wu is among the top 200 young economists around the world (#115).

Wu joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in January 2006. Prior to that, he was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He was also a visiting scholar at various institutions, including Oxford, University of Tokyo, Bank of England, and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.