Cathy Zhang
Associate Professor of Economics
Director of Graduate Studies in Economics
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Irvine
M.A., Economics, University of California, Irvine (2010)
B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley (2008)
Professor Zhang joined Purdue as an Assistant Professor in 2013 after receiving a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary economics, international economcis, and search theory. Professor Zhang's work examines the emergence of an international currency and the role of monetary policy on currency competition, banking and financial intermediation, and experiemental studies on competing means of payment, effects of inflation, and monetary policy transmission.