HTML Curriculum Vitae
Xiang (Sean) Gao
CONTACT INFORMATION3020 Regency Court #55, Ames, Iowa, 50010
Mobile: (515)-441-9583
gapt@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gapt/
JOB MARKET PAPERS
Private Debt with Pervasive Risk of Default
The Extensive Margin of Intrafirm Trade, Secondary Job Market Paper, [Under review by the International Journal of Economics and Business Research: Special Issue on: “Intra-industry Trade, Theory and Empirics”]
OTHER PAPERS
Macroeconomic Analysis on the Basis of Trade Theory: A Review Essay
A Simple Economic Model of Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligation, Work in Progress
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT IOWA STATE UNIV.
Substitute/Stand-Alone Lecturer for Money, Banking and Financial Markets
Teaching Assistant for International Trade, Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis, Intermediate Microeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, and Principles of Macroeconomics
AWARDS
GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals) Scholarship for the FRM Examination, 2010
Graduate and Professional Student Senate Peer Research Award, Iowa State University, 2010
Department nominee and award recipient for the graduate student sessions of the 2010 Southern Economic Association meetings
Recipient of Professional Advancement Grant, Iowa State University, 2010
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, 2006 – 2010
Award recipient for the postgraduate studentship, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ranked in top 1%, 2005
Undergraduate Excellent Academic Performance Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranked in top 10%, 2002 – 2004
WORK EXPERIENCE
Real Estate Investment Intern, Iowa Appraisal and Research Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa, Aug 2010 – Dec 2010
Credit-Risky Investment Intern, Aviva Investors North America, Des Moines, Iowa, Jan 2010 – May 2010
Data Analysis Intern, Organic Agricultural Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, 2009
Portfolio Design Intern, Libra Financial and Insurance Services, Hong Kong, 2006
Commercial Loan Intern, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Xi’an Branch, China, 2005
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIOS
Invited Presentation at Economics Departmental Seminar in the University of Northern Iowa, 2010
The 2010 Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings
The 2010 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings
The 10th Annual Missouri Economics Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and University of Missouri at Columbia, 2010
The 2010 Midwest Economics Association Annual Meetings
MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Midwest Economics Association
Southern Economics Association
Key member in organizing and initiating the Iowa State University Macroeconomics Workshop
Founder of the Iowa State Graduate Students’ Reading Group in Economic Theory
SOFTWARE SKILLS
MATLAB, GAUSS, STATA, Excel VBA, EVIEWS, STATVIEW, JMP
Monte Carlo, Discrete Choices, Numerical Maximization, Stochastic Process, Maximum Log Likelihood, Panel/Time Series Analysis
CERITIFICATION
CAIA - Passed Part I, Sep 2010
FRM - Passed Part I, Nov 2010
CFA - In Pursuit Level I, Jun 2011
Financial Advisers’ Int’l Qualification, the Chartered Insurance Institute with the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong, 2006