Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Tao Wu is a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. His main research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics, and time series econometrics. His recent research focuses on combining the structural macroeconometrics modeling with the modern asset-pricing theory and examining the joint dynamics of macroeconomy and the financial asset prices, in particular the term structure of interest rates.

Wu's research papers have been published in leading economics journals including the Economic Journal, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. They have also received extensive attention from media such as Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

Wu joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in February 2006. Prior to that, he was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He was also a visiting scholar at various institutions, including University of Tokyo, Bank of England, and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.