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Staff Profile

Dr Chrismin Tang Title: Lecturer Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building 437 Tel: +61 3 9479 2214 Email: chrismin.tang@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

Chrismin Tang, B. Soc. Sci. (Hons), National University of Singapore, PhD (Economics), University of Melbourne.

Chrismin Tang joined the Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University in February 2008, after completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne. Prior to her postgraduate studies, Chrismin worked as an economist at the Financial Surveillance Division at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where her team was responsible for analysing the risks and vulnerabilities arising from global financial market developments and assessing their implications for the stability of the financial system. Chrismin’s research interests are in the areas of international macroeconomics, financial economics and financial econometrics. Her current research focuses on the modeling of financial crisis and contagion, systemic risk assessment and developing tests of financial stability. Other areas of interest include asset pricing under information asymmetry and asset price bubbles.

Research interests

International Macroeconomics, Financial Economics and Financial Econometrics.

Teaching

• Financial Economics (FIN4FIE)
• Monetary Economics (ECO4MNE)

Working papers

Fry, R.A., Martin, V.L. and Tang, C. (2008), “A New Class of Tests of Contagion with Applications”, CAMA Working Paper 1/2008.

Fry, R.A., Dungey, M., González-Hermosillo, B., Martin, V.L. and Tang, C. (2008), “Are Financial Crisis Alike?”, CAMA Working Paper 15/2008.

“An Exact Correlation Test of Contagion” (with Vance L. Martin)