Profile

Current positions held

      ●1999/4-：Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
      ●1999/8-：Professor (adjunct), Department of Economics, National Taiwan University 

Education

      ●University of California, Los Angeles, 1987/10-1991/12, (Ph.D. in Economics)
      ●National Taiwan University, 1983/9-1985/6, (M.A. in Economics)
      ●National Taiwan University, 1979/9-1983/6, (B.A. in Economics)

Past working experience

      ●2019-2022: Asian Standing Committee Member, Econometric Society
      ●2019-2021: National Pension Insurance Actuarial Review Committee Member, Ministry of Health and Welfare
      ●2020: External Evaluation Committee, College of Social Science, National ChengChi University
      ●2019 : Selection Committee of Distinguished Professor, College of Social Science, National ChengChi University
      ●2017 : Selection Committee of Distinguished Professor, College of Social Science, National ChengChi University
      ●2017: Review Committee of Scholarship Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education
      ●2016: Review Committee of Scholarship Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education
      ●2013-2015：Board member, H&Q Taiwan
      ●2013-2015：Board member, Dragon Investment Fund
      ●2013-2015：Board member, Asia Global Venture Capital II Co.
      ●2013: External Evaluation Committee, College of Social Science, National ChengChi University
      ●2010/06-2010/07：Visiting Professor, Research Institute of Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University
      ●2009: Evaluation Committee, Department of Economics, National Chung Cheng University
      ●2009: External Evaluation Committee, Department of Economics, National Chi Nan University
      ●2007/08-2008/08：Visiting Professor, Washington University in St Louis
      ●2007: Interview Committee of Erasmus Programme Scholarship, Ministry of Education
      ●2006-2008: Employee Benefit Fund Management Committee Member, Academia Sinica
      ●2004/08-2007/08：Deputy Director, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
      ●2003-2005: The Third Academia Sinica Traffic Management Committee Member, Academia Sinica
      ●2001/04-2002/03：Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
      ●1993/01-1999/04：Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
      ●1992/08-1999/12：Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Economics, National Central University
      ●1993/06-1993/09：Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Duke University
      ●1985/10-1992/12：Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
      ●1988/10-1991/12：Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, UCLA
      ●1994：Senior Examinations Reviewer, Examination Yuan of ROC

Fields

      ●Macroeconomics
      ●Economic Growth and Industrial Economics

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Articles in English

• Chen, Been-Lon and Fei-Chi Liang,“Technical Change, Wage Inequality, and Optimal Taxes in An Assignment Model,” Quantitative Economics, revision and resubmission. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Fei-Chi Liang,“Optimal Taxation and Implementation in the Life Cycle with Human Capital Investment,” Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Zheng-ze Lai and Shian-Yu Liao,“Land-Price Dynamics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations with General Household Preferences,” Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Shian-Yu Liao (2023),“News Shocks to Investment-specific Technology in Business Cycles,” European Economic Review,152, 104363. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Shian-Yu Liao (2023), Dongpeng Liu and Xiangbo Liu,“Optimal Long-run Money Growth Rate in a Cash-in-Advance Economy with Labor-Market Frictions,” Macroeconomic Dynamics, 27, 1737-1766. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Chih-Fang Lai (2021),“Optimal Capital Income Taxes in the infinite horizon model with Progressive Income Taxes,” Taiwan Economic Review, 49(3), 449-473.[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Hung-Ju Chen and Ping Wang (2021),“Long-Run Tax Incidence in a Human Capital-based Endogenous Growth Model with Labor-Market Frictions,” Macroeconomic Dynamics, 25, 337-378. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Yunfang Hu and Kazuo Mino (2020),“Income Taxation Rules and Stability of a Small Open Economy,” Journal of Macroeconomics 65, article 103236. (SSCI).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Shun-Fa Lee and  Xavier Raurich (2020),“Non-separable Utilities and Aggregate Instability,” International Journal of Economic Theory 16, 222-237. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Mei Hsu (2019), “On Intergenerational Transmission between Parental Education and Learning Achievement of Pupils with Taiwan's Data (臺灣親子教育跨代移轉機制之研究),”Taiwan Economic Review 47 (2): 217-272.[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Mei Hsu and Yu‐Shan Hsu (2018), “Progressive Taxation and Macroeconomic Stability in Two‐sector Models with Social Constant Returns,” Journal of Economics (SSCI, JEL), 125, 51-68.[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Shian-Yu Liao (2018) “Durable Goods, Investment Shocks and the Comovement Problem,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 50, 377-406.[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Mei Hsu and Chi-Fang Lai (2016), “Relation between Growth and Unemployment in a Model with Labor-Force Participation and Adverse Labor Institutions,” Journal of Macroeconomics 50, 273-292.[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Chih-Fang Lai (2016), “Relative Effects of Labor Taxes on Employment and Working Hours: Role of Mechanisms Shaping Working Hours,” Journal of Economics 117, 49-84. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Yu-Shan Hsu and Kazuo Mino (2015), “Welfare Implications and Equilibrium Indeterminacy in a Two-sector Growth Model with Consumption Externalities,” Macroeconomic Dynamics 19, 535-577.(SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Chih-Fang Lai (2015), "Effects of Labor Taxes and Unemployment Compensation on Labor Supply in a Search Model with an Endogenous Labor Force," Journal of Macroeconomics, 43, 300-317.(SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Chia-Hui Lu (2015), “Optimal Capital Taxation in A Neoclassical Growth Model” (forthcoming), Journal of Public Economic Theory 17, 257-269. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, MeiHsu and Chih-Fang Lai (2015), "Relative Effects of Labor Taxes and Unemployment Benefits on Hours Worked per Worker and Employment," Pacific Economic Review, 20, 282-309. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon and Shian-Yu Liao (2015), "The Role of Agricultural Productivity on Structural Change," Review of Development Economics 19, 971-987. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Azariadis, Costas, Been-Lon Chen, Chia-Hui Lu and Yin-Chi Wang (2012), “A Two-sector Model of Endogenous Growth with Leisure Externalities,” Journal  of Economic Theory 148(2), 843–857. (SSCI, JEL).[download] 
• Chen, Been-Lon and Chia-Hui Lu (2013), “Optimal Factor Tax Incidence in Two-sector Human Capital-based Models,” Journal of Public Economics 97(1), 75–94. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Yu-Shan Hsu and Kazuo Mino (2013), “Can Consumption Habit Spillovers Be A Source of Equilibrium Indeterminacy?” Journal of Economics 109(3), 245-269. (SSCI, JEL).[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon (2013), “Investment in Human Capital Accumulation and Growth: Analyzing Policy Effectiveness,” Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific, 37-61, Wendy Dobson (ed.), New York: Routledge. (JEL)

 

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Working Papers

• Chen, Been-Lon and Chih-Fang Lai (2019), “Optimal Capital Income Taxes in the infinite horizon model with Progressive Income Taxes," IEAS Working Paper No. 19-A004, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download]
• Chen, Been-Lon, Mei Hsu and Yu-Shan Hsu (2018), “Progressive Taxation and Macroeconomic Stability in Two‐sector Models with Social Constant Returns," IEAS Working Paper No. 18-A003, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download] 
• Chen, Been-Lon, Shun‐Fa Lee and Xavier Raurich (2018), “Non‐separable Utilities and Aggregate Instability," IEAS Working Paper No. 18-A002, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download] 
• Chen, Been-Lon and Shian-Yu Liao (2017), “Durable Goods, Investment Shocks and the Comovement Problem," IEAS Working Paper No. 17-A007, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download] 
• Chen, Been-Lon and Chih-Fang Lai (2014), “Effects of Labor Taxes and Unemployment Compensation on Labor Supply in a Search Model with an Endogenous Labor Force," IEAS Working Paper No. 14-A015, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download] 
• Chen, Been-Lon, Mei Hsu and Chih-Fang Lai (2014), “Relative Effects of Labor Taxes and Unemployment Benefits on Hours Worked per Worker and Employment,” IEAS Working Paper No. 14-A014, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download] 
• Chen, Been-Lon and Shian-Yu Liao (2014), “The Role of Agricultural Productivity on Structural Change,” IEAS Working Paper No. 14-A007, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics.[download]