Staff profile

Dr Chrismin Tang

Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

School of Economics

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

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

Membership of professional associations

Research associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis

Area of study

Economics

Brief profile

Chrismin Tang obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne and is currently a Lecturer at the La Trobe University and a Research Associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at the Australian National University. Prior to her lectureship appointment, she was an economist in the Macroeconomic Surveillance Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.  Chrismin has recently held visiting research fellow positions at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, where she collaborated with fellow chief investigators on research projects funded by the nationally competitive Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.  Her current research interests include financial market crises and contagion, risk diversification and financial stability, with publications in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, working papers at IMF and CAMA as well as chapter contributions to books published by Oxford University Press and John Wiley and Sons.

Teaching units

  • Financial Economics (FIN3/4FIE)
  • Monetary Economics (ECO3/4MNE)
  • International Monetary Economics (ECO3IME)

Recent publications

Fry, R.A., Martin, V.L. and Tang, C. (2010), “A New Class of Tests of Contagion With Applications”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 28, pgs 423-437.

 

Fry, R.A., Dungey, M., González-Hermosillo, B., Martin, V.L. and Tang, C. (2010), “Are Financial Crisis Alike?”, IMF Working Paper,  WP/10/14.

 

“Contagion and the Transmission of Financial Crises” joint with Fry, R.A., M. Dungey, B. Gonzalez-Hermosillo and V.L. Martin in Financial Contagion: A Viral Threat to the Wealth of Nations.  R. W. Kolbs (eds), John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New Jersey and Canada, 2011.

 

“Are Financial Crises Alike? Comparing Financial Crises” joint with Fry, R.A., M. Dungey, B. Gonzalez-Hermosillo and V.L. Martin in Transmission of Financial Crises and Contagion: A Latent Factor Approach. Fry, R.A., M. Dungey, B. Gonzalez-Hermosillo and V.L. Martin (eds), Oxford University Press, New York, 2011.

 

Fry, R.A., Hsiao, Y.L. and Tang, C. (2011), “Actually This Time Is Different”, CAMA Working Paper, WP/12/2011.