Murphy-Economics Seminar: Jun Ma

Each semester The Murphy Institute sponsors a series of seminars hosted by the Tulane Department of Economics that provides an opportunity for faculty, researchers, and economists to present their latest research and pressing issues related to topics in economics. 

Jun Ma is a Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Ma’s primary research areas are macroeconomics and international finance, financial economics, applied time series econometrics, and Chinese economy. He has published articles on journals such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is an elected member of the executive committee and treasurer of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. Previously he was president of the Chinese Economists Society, consultant to Barclays Investment Bank, and held visiting positions at University of Notre Dame (US), Nanjing University (China), Durham University (UK), Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany), Aarhus University (Denmark), and Norges Bank (central bank of Norway). Jun Ma obtained his BA in economics from Nanjing University (China) in 2001 and his PhD in economics from University of Washington (Seattle) in 2007. 

Professor Ma, Dean’s Leadership Fellow for Global Partnerships, collaborates with colleagues in different disciplines and across campuses to develop joint graduate programs, and strategizes about global partnerships for master’s graduate programs.