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Contact Details

• Tel:  0116 252 5645
• Email: qz14@le.ac.uk
• Office: AC214, Astley Clarke Building
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Biography

Personal Research Page

Research Interests

• Empirical Macroeconomics
• Applied Econometrics 

PhD Supervision

• Florence Barugahara
• Edgar Mata Flores
• Hosung Lim
• Somayeh Mardaneh 
• Intan Zacharia

I'm interested in supervising students that are seriously attracted to topics in macroeconomics and applied econometrics, especially in consumption/saving, inflation dynamics, monetary policy, and financial macroeconomics.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Chair of Postgraduate Learning and Teaching Committee
• Member of the Senior Management Group
• MSc Dissertation Co-ordinator

Most Recent Publications

• "Crisis and Consumption Smoothing," with Sung Jin Kang, Annals of Economics and Finance, 2007, 8(1), 137-154.
• "Asset Pricing with Multiplicative Habit and Power-Expo Preferences," with W.T. Smith, Economics Letters, 2007, 94(3), 319-325. 
• "Human Capital, Weak Identification, and Asset Pricing," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2006, 38(4), 873-899.
• "The Spirit of Capitalism and Asset Pricing: an Empirical Investigation," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2006, Vol. 6: Iss. 3 (Topics), Article 1, 1-23.
• "Decreasing Relative Risk Aversion, Risk Sharing, and the Permanent Income Hypothesis," with M. Ogaki, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2004, 22(4), 421-430.
• "Decreasing Relative Risk Aversion and Tests of Risk Sharing," with 

     M. Ogaki, Econometrica, 2001, 69(2), 515-526.

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