Zhengyang Chen received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Dallas, his MS in Finance and MS in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University, and his B.BM in International Business from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He currently holds the Tim Williams Junior Faculty Fellowship and university research fellowship at the University of Northern Iowa. Before coming to UNI, he was an assistant professor at St. Cloud State University. His major fields of interest are macroeconomics/monetary economics, macro-finance, and time series analysis. His current research focuses on the roles of financial intermediaries and expectations in the transmission of monetary policy to the macroeconomy.