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Pu Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance within the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He holds a PhD from Bielefeld University in Germany and describes himself as an empirical economist with a keen interest in applying statistical and econometric methods to analyze economic problems. His career includes previous affiliations with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the University of Technology Sydney's Finance Discipline Group, the New School for Social Research Department of Economics, and contributions through the Munich Personal RePEc Archive. Chen teaches units such as ECOM2001 Quantitative Techniques for Business and supervises research students at Curtin.

Chen's academic interests center on macroeconomics and advanced econometric modeling, including Markov switching models, threshold vector autoregression (VAR), multi-regime cointegrated VAR, vector error correction models (VECM), and global VAR frameworks. His research examines inflation dynamics (demand-pull versus cost-push), wage-price spirals in Keynesian disequilibrium settings, financial stress transmission and spillover effects, short- and long-run productivity effects on unemployment, delayed monetary policy impacts, central bank responses to climate risks and energy transitions, carbon tax versus renewable energy innovation, and game-theoretic analyses of U.S.-China trade disputes. Key publications include 'Financial stress, regime switching and spillover effects: Evidence from a multi-regime global VAR model' (2018, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control), 'Short and Long Effects of Productivity on Unemployment' (2018, Open Economies Review), 'Financial stress, regime switching and macrodynamics: Theory and empirics for the US, the EU and non-EU countries' (2014, Economics), 'Causal Inference for Structural Equations: With an Application to Wage-Price Spiral' (2010, Computational Economics), 'What happens to Japan if China catches a cold?: A causal analysis of Chinese growth and Japanese growth' (2008, Japan and the World Economy), 'Keynesian dynamics and the wage-price spiral: A baseline disequilibrium model' (2006, Journal of Macroeconomics), and recent papers such as 'Inflation: Demand Pull or Cost Push? A Markov Switching Approach' (2025), 'Central banks, climate risks, and energy transition—a dynamic macro model and econometric evidence' (2025, Macroeconomic Dynamics), and 'Carbon Tax Versus Renewable Energy Innovation: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence' (2025). His 68 publications have accumulated over 440 citations.