Project Description

Pei KUANG

Full-time Staff

Title Associate Professor
Office Room 4025, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, University of Macau, E21B
Telephone +(853) 8822 8921
Website https://sites.google.com/site/peikuang2011/
Email peikuang@um.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
  • MA Economics and Politics, University of Freiburg, Germany
  • BSc Statistics, Renmin University of China, China

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary Economics
  • Expectations and Beliefs

Working Papers

  • Pei Kuang, Michael Weber, and Shihan Xie. Central Bank Communication with the Polarized Public.
  • Pei Kuang, Michael Weber, and Shihan Xie. Perceived Political Bias of the Federal Reserve. NBER working paper no. 33071.
  • Carola Binder, Pei Kuang and Li Tang. Central Bank Communication and House Price Expectations. NBER working paper no. 31232.
  • Pei Kuang, Davide Luca and Zhiwu Wei. Great or Grim? Brexit and the Polarisation of Consumer Expectations and Spending. LSE International Inequalities Institute working paper no. 89.
  • Pei Kuang, Kaushik Mitra and Li Tang. Output Gap Estimation and Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge.
  • Pei Kuang, Kaushik Mitra, Li Tang and Shihan Xie. Macroprudential Policy and Housing Market Expectations.

Selected Publications

  • Klaus Adam, Pei Kuang and Shihan Xie. Overconfidence in Private Information Explains Biases in Professional Forecasts. Journal of Monetary Economics.
  • Pei Kuang and Kaushik Mitra. Potential Output Pessimism and Austerity in the European Union. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
  • Pei Kuang, Li Tang, Renbin Zhang, and Tongbin Zhang. Are survey stock price forecasts anchored by fundamental forecasts? A long-run perspective. Economic Theory .
  • Pei Kuang and Kaushik Mitra. Long-run Growth Uncertainty. Journal of Monetary Economics .
  • Pei Kuang. A Model of Housing and Credit Cycles with Imperfect Market Knowledge. European Economic Review.
  • Klaus Adam, Pei Kuang, and Albert Marcet. House Price Booms and the Current Account. NBER Macroeconomics Annual.