Dr. Kan Chen is the Associate Director of Analytics at IMS. Kan has over 12 years of experience in research and design applied to economics and finance. He also has significant experience in big data, text analysis, regional, energy, and environmental economics.
Before joining IMS, Chan held positions in the public and private sectors as an economist and quantitative consultant. As a Senior Economist at BBVA, he covered a wide range of topics, including international finance, regional economies, energy economics, mortgage originations, and climate economics. In addition, Kan was also the main contributing economist for BBVA’s US macroeconomic scenarios, which have been vital for the bank’s balance sheet management. As the developer of BBVA’s in-house scenario models, he regularly communicated with external auditors and the regulator.
Kan’s academic interests primarily lie in empirical studies of monetary policies and international finance with state-of-the-art quantitative methods. His works on Bayesian econometrics, exchange rates, and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have been published in prestigious journals, such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and Economic Letters. He also presented at international conferences on international finance and provided referee reports to many top economics academic journals.