Frank S. T. Hsiao

Emeritus and Adjunct Professor
Email: frank.hsiao@colorado.edu
Dept. Phone: 303.735.5500

Fields:
Economic Theory (Mathematical Economics) • Theory of Economic Growth • Economic Statistics and Econometrics • Economic Development of East Asia

Current Research Interests: 
Topics in East Asian development; microcomputer applications in economics; endogenous growth models.

Education:
PhD–University of Rochester
MA–University of Rochester
MA–National Taiwan University
BA–National Taiwan University

PhD, University of Rochester, 1967, is a professor of economics. He has been teaching and working in fields of economic growth theory and mathematical economics at CU-Boulder since 1966. Recently, he has worked in areas of economic growth and development of East Asia, especially related to Taiwan, Korea, Japan and the United States.   He has also developed a course on Microcomputer Applications in Economics, which emphasizes applications in mathematical economics and econometrics.  He was a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellow at Hitotsubashi University, and the National Taiwan University, and a visiting scholar at the Korea Development Institute, the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, the John King Fairbank Center at Harvard University, and Kansai and Nagoya Universities. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Asian Economics and as a consultant to the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.  His publications have appeared in American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Southern Economic Journal, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Development, World Development, Journal of Asian Economics, and Review of Development Economics.

He has published the following monograph and books:

Pasokon de Gaimu no Riron (Game Theory using Spreadsheets, in Japanese) (with Yoshisuke Umehara), Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha Publishing Company, 1997, 212 pp. 2nd printing,1999.

FDI Inflows, Exports and Economic Growth in First and Second generation ANIEs: Panel Data Causality Analyses (with Yongkul Won and Doo Yong Yang), monograph written for the project of Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, February 2008. 86 pp.

Economic and Business Analysis-Quantitative Methods using Spreadsheets, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2011, 672 pp.

Economic Development of Taiwan – Early Experiences and the Pacific Trade Triangle (with Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao), Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2015, 578 pp.

Economic Development of Emerging East Asia: Catching Up of Taiwan and South Korea (with Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao), London: Anthem Press, 2017, pp. 323.