Department of Economics and Related Studies
Weijie Luo
PhD Student
Profile
Biography
Weijie is a PhD student affiliated with the Macroeconomics/Finance research cluster in the Department of Economics at the University of York, under the supervision of Andrew Pickering and Paulo Santos Monteiro. His primary research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics and political economics, particularly on income inequality, fiscal policy and growth.
In April 2018, Weijie joined the Department of Economics as Associate Lecturer.
In 2017, Weijie was awarded the First Prize for the Best PhD Paper at the 49th Money Macro and Finance Annual Conference.
Research
Overview
Research Interests:
- Macroeconomics
- Political Economics
Projects
Discussion Paper:
“Inequality and the Size of Government” (with Andrew Pickering and Paulo Santos Monteiro)
Research group(s)
- Macroeconomics/Finance cluster
- Historical Economics and Related Research cluster
Supervision
Supervisors:
Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) member:
- Prof Gulcin Ozkan
Teaching
Undergraduate
Teaching Scholar, Department of Economics, University of York, 2014-2018
Microeconomics II (2nd year)
Mathematics II (2nd year)
Mathematics I (1st year)
Maths Drop-In Sessions
Postgraduate
Associate Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York, 2018-present
MSc dissertation supervision
External activities
Memberships
- Royal Economic Society (RES)
- Econometric Society
Invited talks and conferences
Selected Presentations:
- Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Sussex, 2018
- Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Bristol, 2017
- Money Macro and Finance Annual Conference, London, 2017
- North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, St. Louis, 2017
Media coverage
My research has received the press coverage by the Royal Economic Society:
“Labour Income Inequality Hurts Growth, Capital Inequality Boots It”
