Jing Cynthia Wu is the Paul W. and Catherine A. Boltz Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Wu earned her PhD in economics from UC San Diego. Her research is at the intersection of monetary economics and asset pricing, with specialization in monetary policy, the zero lower bound, and the term structure of interest rates. Wu has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of