Vivian Chen

Senior Economist

Vivian Chen is a senior economist at The Conference Board. She is responsible for research programs on medium and long-term growth, productivity and competitiveness. Chen leads the development of the Total Economy Database ™ the core database on output and productivity measures for more than 125 economies around the world. Her research also spans Chinese economy and labor markets. Chen received her BA in economics from Fudan University in China and her Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the United States. Her working papers include Projecting Economic Growth with Growth Accounting Techniques, Rising Wages: Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage, and Recent Productivity Developments in the World Economy.

Publications by Vivian Chen

China Center Publications

• China Center Quick Note: Barring the unexpected, China’s economy to downshift considerably, as a natural consequence of both size and maturation
  21 February, 2013

Economics Program Working Paper Series

• Recent Changes in Europe’s Competitive Landscape and Medium-Term Perspectives: How the Sources of Demand and Supply Are Shaping Up
  06 May, 2013
• Projecting Global Growth
  13 November, 2012
• Projecting Economic Growth with Growth Accounting Techniques: The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2012 Sources and Methods
  15 November, 2011
• Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?
  01 March, 2009
• The Cost Competitiveness of the Manufacturing Sector in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective
  05 January, 2009

Economics Watch Reports

• The Conference Board Economics Watch^® United States View
  25 April, 2012

Executive Action Report

• Feeling the Pain: Wage Growth in the United States during and after the Great Recession
  26 April, 2012
• Revisiting Japan a Year after the Earthquake: A Slower than Expected Recovery
  28 March, 2012

Periodical

• The Conference Board® Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 2, No. 2
  16 July, 2012

Research Report

• Performance 2011: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies
  07 June, 2011

External Publications

• Vivian Chen, Abhay Gupta, Andre Therrien, Gad Levanon and Bart van Ark (2010), "Recent Productivity Developments in the World Economy: An Overview from The Conference Board Total Economy Database," International Productivity Monitor, Spring, pp. 3-19.
• Bart van Ark, Adbul Azeez Erumban, Vivian Chen and Utsav Kumar (2010), "The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective", in Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Rajiv Kumar, eds., Emerging Giants. China and India in the World Economy, Oxford University Press, pp. 87-124