Dr. Ren Zhang

  • Associate Professor at Finance & Economics, McCoy College of Business

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Zhang, R., & Yang, Y. (n.d.). Combining Proxies and Narrative Sign Restrictions: Revisiting the Effects of Technology Shocks. Journal of Applied Econometrics.

2023

  • Zhang, R., Li, Q., & An, L. (2023). Corruption Drains Away Talents: Cross-country Evidence based on a Machine Learning Approach. Economic Modelling.
  • Yang, Y., Zhang, R., Wu, L., & Tang, Y. (2023). Investigating the Impact of Technology and Noise Shocks on Capital Flows. Finance Research Letters.

2022

  • Zhang, R. (2022). News Shocks and the Effects of Monetary Policy. Macroeconomic Dynamics.
  • Zhao, Y., An, L., Ozdemir, N., & Zhang, R. (2022). Outward Foreign Direct Investment of China’s Banking Sector: Determinants and Motivations. Singapore Economic Review.

2021

  • Zhang, R., An, L., & Wynne, M. (2021). Shock-Dependent Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Evidence Based on a Narrative Sign Approach for Japan. Journal of International Money and Finance.
  • Zhang, R., Martinetz-Gacia, E., Wynne, M., & Grossman, V. (2021). Ties that Bind: Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest for Small Open Economies. Journal of International Money and Finance.
  • Zhang, R., Shang, Y., & Li, H. (2021). Effects of Pandemic Outbreak on Economies: Evidence from Business History Context. Frontiers in Public Health.
  • Zhang, R., Shi, Z., Zhang, H., & Zhu, L. (2021). Stochastic Dynamics of the COVID-19 Case-Fatality Ratios in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippine: Economic Implications for the Post-COVID-19 Era.
  • Balke, N., Zhang, R., & Zeng, Z. (2021). Identifying Credit Demand, Financial Intermediation, and Supply of Funds Shocks: A Structural VAR Approach. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance.

2020

  • Yu, C., Zhang, R., An, L., & Yu, Z. (2020). Has China’s Belt and Road Initiative Intensified Bilateral Trade Links between China and the Involved Countries? Sustainability, 12(17).

2018

  • Zhang, R., & Wynne, M. (2018). Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest in an Open Economy. Empirical Economics.

2017

  • Zhang, R., & Wynne, M. (2017). Measuring the World Natural Rate of Interest. Economic Inquiry.
  • Balke, N., Zhang, R., & Fulmer, M. (2017). Incorporating the Beige Book into a Quantitative Index of Economic Activity. Journal of Forecasting.