http://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/01/er_tao_zha_econometric_society/campus.html
"Tao Zha, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, has been named a 2017 Fellow of the Econometric Society, a small group of economic luminaries elected by their peers.
Previous fellows include most of the Nobel Laureates in economics, as well as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who voted for Zha and others to be inducted.
“His classes are very engaging, with state-of-the-art macroeconomics made understandable to students at various levels,” Dezhbakhsh says. “In fact, he has offered to teach a large section of our principles of macroeconomics next year. This will be a tremendous opportunity for our first-year students to benefit from such a great scholar. “
Zha’s most recent project focuses on China and attempting to understand why Western economists were wrong in projecting that its economy would slow down significantly and that the country would experience a serious economic crisis, if not collapse."