Ran Gu

Dr Ran Gu is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex, specializing in Labour Economics and Search and Matching Theory. His research explores economic behavior in household financial decision-making, macroeconomic impacts on education returns, and pandemic-induced labor market shifts.

• Current teaching: Computational Economics (EC910), Topics in Macroeconomics (EC991)
• Current supervisee: Moe Suzuki (PhD Economics)
• Former supervisees: Guohua He (PhD Economics, 2025), Deo Sande (PhD Economics, 2021)

His research integrates econometric modeling with empirical analysis of labor markets, household bargaining, and business cycle effects on skill requirements. Recent work includes The Review of Financial Studies (2024) on gender disparities in household financial control and Review of Economic Dynamics (2023) on postgraduate wage premiums during economic fluctuations.

Grants and collaborative projects include University of Cambridge (2020) and British Academy (2019) funding for intra-household financial decision-making studies. Conference presentations span Paris, Vilnius, Philadelphia, and London, focusing on durables markets, skill evolution during lockdowns, and macroeconomic dynamics.