Pei Kuang

The Department of Economics
Associate Professor in Economics
Co-lead, Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group and Programme Director, MSc International Money and Banking

Contact details

Telephone: (+44) (0)121 4145620
Email: p.kuang@bham.ac.uk

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Address: Department of Economics
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Pei Kuang is a Associate Professor in Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and joined the Department of Economics in August 2012. His research focuses on empirical and theoretical analysis of imperfect knowledge in Macro and Finance with an emphasis on macroeconomic policy making and issues related to expectation formation and learning. He has published in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Journal of Monetary Economics, European Economic Review and other journals.

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Qualifications

PhD University of Frankfurt
MA University of Freiburg
BS Renmin University of China

Teaching

Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD)
International and European Monetary Issues (3rd year UG)
Supervision of PhD, Master and Bachelor dissertations

Research

Learning and Imperfect Information, Expectation Formations, Business Cycles, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Chinese Economy

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kuang, P & Mitra, K 2024, 'Potential Output Pessimism and Austerity in the European Union', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13233

Zhang, E, Chen, L, Kuang, P & Dickinson, DG 2023, 'An Accessibility Measurement Based on Commuter Behaviour and Living Conditions: An Empirical Analysis of the High-Speed Railway Network in the East of China', Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 5, 4309. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054309

Kuang, P, Tang, L, Zhang, R & Zhang, T 2022, 'Forecast disagreement about long-run macroeconomic relationships', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 200, pp. 371-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.06.002

Kuang, P 2019, 'Does energy consumption endanger public longevity? An analysis of 34 major energy-consuming countries', International Journal of Smart Grid and Clean Energy.

Kuang, P & Yao, Y 2017, 'Are Rational Explosive Solutions Learnable?', Economics Letters, vol. 157, pp. 62-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.05.038

Kuang, P & Wang, T 2017, 'Labor market dynamics with search frictions and fairwage considerations', Economic Inquiry, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 1336-1349. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12428

Kuang, P 2016, 'A note on learning in a credit economy', Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 845-855. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100514000534

Kuang, P & Mitra, K 2016, 'Long-run growth uncertainty', Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 79, pp. 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2016.04.001

Kuang, P 2014, 'A model of housing and credit cycles with imperfect market knowledge', European Economic Review, vol. 70, pp. 419-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.06.013

Kuang, P, Schröder, M & Wang, Q 2014, 'Illusory Profitability of Technical Analysis in Emerging Foreign Exchange Markets', International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 192-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2013.07.015

Adam, K, Kuang, P & Marcet, A 2012, 'House Price Booms and the Current Account', NBER Macroeconomics Annual, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 77-122. https://doi.org/10.1086/663990

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