Jeffrey Kuo is an Economics PhD candidate at George Washington University. He received his MA degree in Economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a BS/MS Honors Degree in International Business and Trade from National Chengchi University. Before pursuing a graduate degree in the United States, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
His academic fields encompass International Economics, Political Economy, and Applied Econometrics. Specifically, he analyzes the economic and political impact of the preferential trade agreement and the policy coordination between the countries. He uses the CGE models and empirical econometric methods to explore how international economic activities such as goods and services trade, foreign direct investment, and regional trade agreements affect the welfare of the nations and multinational firms.