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Lichen Zhang is an assistant professor in the HKU Business School. She joined the University of Hong Kong in 2020. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2020. She also holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining HKU, she had been working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as a graduate research analyst.

Lichen’s research interest lies in macroeconomics with a particular focus on heterogeneous agents and firm dynamics, both empirically and theoretically. Her papers attempt to contribute to the active research agenda that centers on using micro data to inform aggregate quantitative structural models, emphasizing the link between micro-level heterogeneity and macro-level outcomes.