Yang Gao
yang.gao at auckland dot ac dot nz
Room 653, Owen G Glenn Building (BLDG 260), 12 Grafton Road, Auckland 1010 New Zealand
Welcome! I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the University of Auckland Business School. I obtained my Ph.D. 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.
In my research, I investigate the macroeconomic and welfare implications of climate change and climate policies. In particular, I examine how climate policies interact with frictions in the production sector and financial markets, aiming to uncover their true efficiency, distributional, and aggregate impacts. My methodological approach combines econometric analysis of micro- and macro-level data with theoretical investigations and quantitative macroeconomic modeling.