معرفی
Kwok Yan Chiu is a sixth-year economics Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University (expected graduation: 2025) and will join the University of Mannheim as a Postdoctoral Researcher (Researcher) in August 2025. His work bridges macroeconomics, finance, and housing economics through the lens of household heterogeneity and micro-level expectation data.
Education:
- Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Northwestern University (2025 expected)
- M.A. in Economics from Northwestern University (2021)
- MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics (2018)
- BSc in Mathematics and Economics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2016)
His research focuses on how heterogeneous beliefs about stock returns drive wealth inequality, the relationship between household expectations and macroeconomic dynamics, and the impact of credit access on housing quality. He develops computational methods for solving incomplete information general equilibrium models using sequence space approaches.
His advisors include Prof. Matthias Doepke (Committee Chair), Prof. Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Prof. Marios Angeletos, and Prof. Matthew Rognlie. Teaching evaluations and research materials are publicly accessible. He maintains a personal website at https://chiukwokyan.github.io.
