Welcome!

I will join Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2026–2027) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2027. My research spans macroeconomics, political economy, and international economics.

Here are my Curriculum Vitae. Contact me at tianyu.fan@yale.edu or tianyufan.econ@gmail.com.

Data: Global Geopolitical Events Database (sample available)

Publications

1. Growing Like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth
with Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Econometrica, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2023
[Published Version] | [Corrigendum] | [Working Paper]

Working Papers

2. The Labor Market Incidence of New Technologies
[Latest 12/25] | [arXiv]

3. The Geopolitical Determinants of Economic Growth, 1960 - 2024
[Latest 11/25] | [arXiv], Media: Le Monde, Marginal Revolution

4. Geopolitical Barriers to Globalization
with Mai Wo and Wei Xiang
[New 09/25] | [arXiv]

5. Measuring Global Geopolitical Alignment
with Jizhou Liu and Wei Xiang
Draft Coming Soon

Work in Progress

6. Partial Automation
with Pascual Restrepo
[Slides 11/25]

7. Political Cycles in a Globalized World
with Haoran Gao

8. Geopolitical Shocks and Global Financial Markets
with Zefeng Chen, Minghao Li, and Wei Xiang

9. Measuring Inflation Inequality with Incomplete Prices
with Olivia Ding and Kan Yao