Yulei Luo

Assistant Professor of Economics (2006-present)

School of Economics and Finance

The University of Hong Kong

Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR

Email: yluo@econ.hku.hk | Phone: (852) 2859-1042 | Fax: (852) 2548-1152 | Office: 916 K.K. Leung.

Education

       Ph.D. in Economics (2005), Princeton University

       B.S. in Electronics (1997), Wuhan University

I will be on leave at University of California, Davis in 2009-2010. (Here is my Google page.)

Research Interests

       Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics.

 

Publications in Refereed Journals

  1. Consumption Dynamics under Information Processing Constraints (2008), Review of Economic Dynamics 11, 366-385.

  2. The Wealth Distribution and the Demand for Status, with Eric R. Young (2009) , Macroeconomic Dynamics 13 (S1) (lead article), 1-30.

  3. The Spirit of Capitalism, Precautionary Savings, and Consumption, with William T. Smith and Heng-fu Zou (2009), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 41, 543-554.

  4. Rational Inattention and Aggregate Fluctuations, with Eric R. Young (2009), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 9: Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 14.

  5. A Note on Entrepreneurial Risk, Capital Market Imperfections, and Heterogeneity, with Heng-fu Zou and Liutang Gong, forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics.

 Current Working Papers

  1. Risk-sensitive Consumption and Savings under Rational Inattention, with Eric R. Young, 2009, under review.

  2. Rational Inattention, Long-run Consumption Risk, and Portfolio Choice, 2009, under review.

  3. Asset Pricing under Information-processing Constraints, with Eric R. Young, 2008, under review.

  4. Sticky Information Diffusion and Inertial Behavior of Durables Consumption, with Eric R. Young, 2009.

 

 

Last updated: July 2009