Patrick Toche | Economist Office WLB514, Dept of Finance and Decision Sciences, The Baptist University of Hong Kong, 34 Renfrew Rd, Kowloon – Hong Kong

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Education The University of Oxford Ph.D. Economics

Oxford 2000

Title : “Essays in Dynamic Economics : Growth, Unemployment, and Taxes.” Supervisor : John S. Flemming, former Executive Director of the Bank of England & Chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Committee #1 : Christopher Bliss, Nuffield Professor of International Economics, Oxford. Committee #2 : Charles Bean, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England & former Head of the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics.

Employment Baptist University of Hong Kong Lecturer, Department of Finance & Decision Sciences – –

Hong Kong 2017–

Teaching: Research Methods, Probability & Statistics, Applied Mathematics Research: Stochastic control, dynamic games.

Selected Publications –

“Multiple BGPs in a Growth Model with Habit Persistence : A Comment,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, Volume 41 (1), February 2009, Pages 189–195.

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“A Tractable Model of Precautionary Saving in Continuous Time,” Economics Letters, Elsevier, Volume 87 (2), May 2005, Pages 267–272. Citation highlight : Carroll, Christopher D. and Miles S. Kimball “Precautionary Saving and Precautionary Wealth”, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd), 2008.

Skills –

Software — advanced knowledge: LATEX, Julia, Maple, Octave/MATLAB, Python, R, Sage, Stata; working knowledge: LIMDEP, Mathematica, OxMetrics, RATS, SAS, SPSS. Other — Dvorak user on any OS.

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Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish.