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Ran Tao
Associate Professor
- Office Location: Timothy J Hyland Hall 4402
- Phone: (262) 472-5447
- Email: taor@uww.edu
- Department(s): Economics
- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nancyrantao
Nancy Ran Tao, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. She is also a research associate at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies. Her areas of specialization include financial economics, banking, industrial organization, game theory, econometrics, and computational economics.
Dr. Tao’s current research focuses on the commercial banking strategies and the banking industries in the U.S. and China, and China’s economic and financial reforms. Her recent published articles and working papers examine the impacts of off-balance sheet activities on community bank performance and the relationships between bank deposit interest rate strategies, bank size and market concentration in the U.S., and relationships between monetary policies, bank lending and asset market in China.
Her past teaching and research positions include Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Claremont Graduate University, and research associate at the National Development and Reform Commission in Beijing, China. Dr. Tao received Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University and M.Sc. in Operational Research from Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
Dr. Tao’s teaching experience includes Business Statistics (Econ 245) (both traditional and online courses), Principles of Microeconomics (Econ 201) (both traditional and online courses) Industrial Organization and Competitive Strategies (Econ 441) and Game Theory (Econ 442).
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, U.S.A., Sep 2008
M.Sc., Operational Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Sep 2002
B.A. (honors), Business Management, Shandong University, Shandong, China, Jul 2001
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Chinese Liquidity Effects on the Australian Macroeconomy (with Richard Burdekin) forthcoming in the Applied Economics
- “Bank Deserts in the United States and the Great Recession: Geography and Demographics” (with Russ Kashian and Robert Drago), Journal of Economic Studies 2018, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 691-709
- “An Empirical Examination of Factors Driving the Offshore Renminbi Market” (with Richard Burdekin), China Economic Journal, September 2017, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 287-304.
- “A Computational Dynamic Model of Strategic Behavior in the U.S. Retail Banking Markets,” Managerial and Decision Economics, March 2016, vol, 27, no. 3, pp182-194.
- “Health Benefit Downward Rigidity: Employers’ Responses to Rising Insurance Costs” (with Xuguang Guo), Risk Management and Insurance Review, September 2015, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 217-241.
- “Off-balance Sheet Activities and Community Bank Performance” (with Russ Kashian), Journal of Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 41, no. 6, pp.789-807.
- “Bank Lending Margins in China and the Effects of the June 2012 Liberalization” (with Richard Burdekin), Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, vol. 5, no. 2, May 2014, 19 pages.
- “China Real Estate Market Performance: Stock Market Linkages, Liquidity Pressures, and Inflationary Effects” (with Richard Burdekin), The Chinese Economy, vol. 47, no. 2, March-April 2014, pp. 5-26.