School of Business
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
Phone: +44 (116) 252 2880
Email:  mhs15@le.ac.uk

 

Academic Positions

Associate Professor, University of Leicester, 2015 -- Present.
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 2011 -- 2015.
Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside, 2006 -- 2011.

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester, 2006.                 
M.A. in Economics, University of Rochester, 2005.
M. Phil. in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001.
B. Soc. Sc. in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.

Publications

• How Does Political Uncertainty Affect the Optimal Degree of Policy Divergence (with Emre Aytimur and Aris Boukouras) Social Choice and Welfare.  
• Sources of Economic Growth in Models with Non-Renewable Resources (with Hongsilp Sriket), Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 62, 2022. 
• Diversity and Economic Performance in a Model with Progressive Taxation (with Wei Wang), Economic Journal, vol. 129, 2019. 
• Standard Risk Aversion and Efficient Risk Sharing Economics Letters, vol. 173, 2018. 
• Asset Bubbles in an Overlapping Generations Model with Endogenous Labor Supply (with Lisi Shi) Economics Letters, vol. 123 (2), 2014.
• Time Preference and the Distributions of Wealth and Income Economic Inquiry, vol. 52 (1), 2014.
• A Quantitative Analysis of Suburbanization and the Diffusion of the Automobile (with Karen A. Kopecky) International Economic Review, vol. 51 (4), 2010.
• Finite State Markov-chain Approximations to Highly Persistent Processes (with Karen A. Kopecky) Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 13 (3), 2010. 
• Superneutrality, Indeterminacy and Endogenous Growth (with Chong K. Yip) Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 27 (4), 2005. 

Comments

• On Expectations-Driven Business Cycles in Economies with Production Externalities: A Comment (with Jang-Ting Guo and Anca-Ioana Sirbu)
  International Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 8 (3), 2012. 

Completed Working Papers

• Biased Information and Opinion Polarisation
• Information Quality, Disagreement and Political Polarisation (with Emre Aytimur)
• Precautionary Saving Behaviour under Ambiguity
• Research Policy and U.S. Economic Growth
• Concave Consumption Function and Precautionary Wealth Accumulation

Teaching

University of Leicester

Macroeconomic Theory II
Intermediate Macroeconomics 

University of Connecticut

Macroeconomics (MA Core Course)   
Macroeconomic Theory I & II (PhD Core Course)
Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD Field Course)
Intermediate Macroeconomics

University of California, Riverside

Macroeconomic Theory (PhD Core Course)
Advanced Macroeconomic Theory (PhD Field Course)
Intermediate Macroeconomics

Student Supervisions

University of Leicester

Sara Jabeen                     Co-Advisor, 2021
Hongsilp Sriket                Co-Advisor, 2020, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Akbar Ullah                      Co-Advisor, 2020

University of Connecticut

Lisi Shi                              Major Advisor, 2015, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China
Wei Wang                         Major Advisor, 2015, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China

Joshua An                         Associate Advisor, 2016
Ismahile Ba Boukari        Associate Advisor, 2014
Weiran Huang                  Associate Advisor, 2014    
Matthew Schurin              Associate Advisor, 2013

University of California, Riverside

Zhiming Fu                      Co-Advisor, 2014, Sichuan University, China
Dongpeng Liu                  Co-Advisor, 2014, Nanjing University, China
Sarah Daway                   Co-Advisor, 2012, University of the Philippines
Anca-Ioana Sirbu             Co-Advisor, 2012, West Virginia University
Xiangbo Liu                      Co-Advisor, 2011, Renmin University of China

Venoo Kakar                    Committee member, 2013
Wing-Yu Leung                Committee member, 2010
MeiChi Huang                  Committee member, 2009
Daniel Farhat                   Committee member, 2009

Professional Services

Vice President, Chinese Economic Association in North America, January 2015 – January 2017
Organizer, ASSA-CEANA joint session, Chicago, January 2017
Organizer, CEANA Annual Meetings, Chicago, January 2017
Organizer, ASSA-CEANA joint session, San Francisco, January 2016
Organizer, CEANA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 2016
Co-Organizer, Conference on Business Cycles, UC Riverside, April 2009

Reviewer Experience