- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2008
- MA in Economics, National Taiwan University, 2002
- BA in Economics, National Taiwan University, 1998
- 國際經濟
- 都市與區域經濟
- 2016-2021 Associate Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Singapore Management University
- 2013-2015 Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University
- 2019-2020 Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
- 2011-2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
- 2011-2013 Affiliated Researcher, Institute of Real Estate Studies, National University of Singapore
- 2008-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2005-2008 Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
- 111學年度國科會傑出研究獎
- 2015 Sing Lun Fellowship, Singapore Management University
- 2014 School of Economics Research Excellence Award, Singapore Management University
- 2012 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize for the best paper published annually in the Economic Journal by an author who is within five years of completing their PhD
- 2007 Dissertation Fellowship for Taiwan Students Abroad, Taiwan Ministry of Education
- 2002 Honorary Mention, Best Master’s Thesis Competition, Taiwan Economics Association
- Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Geography, 2017 – 2021
- Associate Editor, Taiwan Economic Review, 2018 – present
- Associate Editor, Academia Economic Papers, 2015 – 2021
- Guest Editor, Academia Economic Papers, special issue on International, Regional, and Urban Economics, 2016.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Hsuan-Chih (Luke) Lin and Han Yang(2023), "Long-Run Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19 in a Global Economy", Economic Theory, Forthcoming Working Paper
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Hsuan-Chih (Luke) Lin and Han Yang(2023), "Between Lives and Economy: Optimal COVID-19 Containment Policy in Open Economies", European Economic Review, 157, 104512.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Lin Lu, Pierre M. Picard (2023), "Income Inequality, Productivity, and International Trade", Economic Theory, 76, 203-249.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Yi Lu, Xuan Luo, and Lianming Zhu(2023), "Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Agglomeration: Evidence from China", Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(2), 610-639.
- Chen, Yi-Fan, Wen-Tai Hsu, Shin-Kun Peng (2023), "Innovation, Firm Size Distribution, and Gains from Trade", Theoretical Economics, 18(1), 341-380.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, and Lin Ma (2021), "Urbanization Policy and Economic Development: A Quantitative Analysis of China’s Differential Hukou Reforms,", Regional Science and Urban Economics, 91(103639).
- Mori, Tomoya, Tony E. Smith, and Wen-Tai Hsu (2020), "Common Power Laws for Cities and Spatial Fractal Structures,", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 117(12), 6469-6475.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Yi Lu and Guiying Laura Wu (2020), "Competition, Markups, and Gains from Trade: A Quantitative Analysis of China Between 1995 and 2004,", Journal of International Economics, 122(103266),.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Xiaolu Li, Yang Tang, and Jing Wu (2017), "Determinants of Urban Land Supply in China: How Do Political Factors Matter?", Asian Development Review, 34(2), 152-183.
- Holmes, Thomas J., Wen-Tai Hsu and Sanghoon Lee (2014), "Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade", Journal of International Economics, 94(2), 195-206.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Thomas J. Holmes and Frank Morgan (2014), "Optimal City Hierarchy: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Central Place Theory", Journal of Economic Theory, 154, 245-273.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Travis Ng and Yi Lu (2014), "Does Market Competition Lead to Customization?", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 106, 10-28.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai and Hongliang Zhang (2014), "The Fundamental Law of Highway Congestion Revisited: Evidence from National Expressways in Japan", Journal of Urban Economics, 81, 65-76.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai and Ping Wang (2012), "Trade, Firm Selection, and Industrial Agglomeration", Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42(6), 975-986.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai (2012), "Central Place Theory and City Size Distribution", Economic Journal, 122(563), 903-932.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai, Nicholas Wei Siong Chiang, and Marilyn Yiling Song / Hian Teck Hoon(2021), "Singapore’s Urban Form and its Implications on Transport and City Development: A CrossCity Perspective", The Singapore Economy: Dynamism and Inclusion, Routledge.
- Chang, Pao-Li and Wen-Tai Hsu, Jonathan H. Hamilton, et al,(2020), "Geography, Trade and Power-Law Phenomena,", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance , Oxford University Press.
- Hsu, Wen-Tai and Xin Zou / Luca D'Acci(2019), "Central Place Theory and Power Laws for Cities", he Mathematics of Urban Morphology , Springer Nature.