Hello!
I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I am on the 2025-2026 job market.
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Financial and Monetary Economics, Market Microstructure
Email: zqiao7@wisc.edu
Dissertation: Three Chapters on Markets with Frictions
- Market Liquidity and Inventory Cycles (job market paper)
- Price Commitment, Reputation and Bargaining in Bilateral Trade
- Markup Composition in the Presence of Competition and Frictions
Working paper
Middlemen Redux with Grace Xun Gong and Randall Wright (revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
Intermediation with Imperfect Credit with Grace Xun Gong, Yuet-Yee Wong and Randall Wright (under review)
Work in progress
Pricing and Matching with Frictions and Heterogeneity, with Peter Norman and Randall Wright
Open Banking: Inclusion, Pricing and Efficiency, with Yuteng Cheng and Kee-Youn Kang
Book Chapter
Middlemen in Search Equilibrium: A Survey, with Grace Xun Gong and Randall Wright, Elements in Money and Banking, edited by Chao Gu and Joseph Haslag, 2025, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming) [online bibliography]