Mengheng Li

Mengheng Li is a Senior Lecturer at the Economics Discipline Group within the UTS Business School and a research associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (ANU) and the Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience (CCRR). He specializes in nonlinear/non-Gaussian state space models, macroeconomic forecasting, and climate change economics. Prior to UTS, he worked at the Dutch Central Bank as an econometrician. His PhD in Econometrics was obtained from VU University Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute.

Education includes a PhD in Econometrics (2018, VU Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute), M.Phil. in Economics (2015, cum laude), and B.Sc. in Econometrics (2013, cum laude, Tilburg University). Research focuses on inflation dynamics, business cycles, output gaps, and the economic costs of climate change. He has received awards including the 2019 INFER Best Paper Award and multiple conference grants.

• Grants: UTS Collaboration Scheme (2023), UTS Business School Research Grant (2022)
• Professional Affiliations: Econometric Society, International Association for Applied Econometrics
• Teaching: Advanced Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Business Statistics

His work bridges econometric theory and applied macroeconomic issues, with recent emphasis on climate change's economic implications and high-dimensional volatility modeling.