Yang Gao
yang.gao@auckland.ac.nz
Room 653, Owen G Glenn Building (BLDG 260), 12 Grafton Road, Auckland 1010 New Zealand
Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland Business School. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research interests lie in macroeconomics, environmental economics, and energy economics, with related interests in firm dynamics and finance.
I study the macroeconomic and welfare implications of climate change and climate and energy policies, with a particular focus on how market frictions shape policy outcomes. My work combines econometric analyses of micro- and macro-level data with theoretical analysis and quantitative macroeconomic modeling.