Dr. Weijie Luo
Center for China Fiscal Development, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, P.R. China
Email: luoweijie@cufe.edu.cn
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/weijieluo
Education
PhD in Economics, University of York, 2014-2019
Thesis: “Essays on Inequality and Fiscal Policy”
MSc in Economics, University of Birmingham, 2012-2013
Dissertation: “Economic Growth and Income Inequality: The Effect of Fiscal Policy”
BSc in Economics, LLB in Law, Minor in Mathematics
South China Agricultural University, 2008-2012
Positions
Assistant Professor, Center for China Fiscal Development, Central University of Finance and Economics, 2019-present
Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, 2018
Associate Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York, 2018
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of York, 2014-2018
Research Fields
Macroeconomics, Political Economics and Economic Policy
Research
Demography and the composition of taxes: Evidence from international panel data. Economics Letters, vol. 183 (2019), pp. 108518.
Essays on Inequality and Fiscal Policy. PhD thesis, University of York (2018).
Inequality and the size of government (with Andrew Pickering and Paulo Santos Monteiro). Discussion Papers 17/02, Department of Economics, University of York (2017).
Inequality and growth in the 21st century. Discussion Papers 17/18, Department of Economics, University of York (2017). (Winner of the first prize award for the best PhD paper at the 49th Money Macro and Finance Annual Conference, 2017).
Conference Presentations
19th China Youth Economists Forum, Wuhan, 2019
Money Macro and Finance Research Group 50th Anniversary Conference, London, 2019
34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Manchester, 2019
72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, 2019
Simposio de la Asociacion Espanola de Economia, Madrid, 2018
Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet Conference in Public Economics, Aix-en-Provence, 2018
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul, 2018
Money Macro and Finance PhD Conference, Kent, 2018
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Brighton, 2018
Royal Economic Society PhD Meetings, London, 2018
49th Money Macro and Finance Research Group Annual Conference, London, 2017
7th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, New York, 2017
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, St. Louis, 2017
China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Wuhan, 2017
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Hong Kong, 2017
European Public Choice Society Conference, Budapest, 2017
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Bristol, 2017
Royal Economic Society Symposium of Junior Researchers, Bristol, 2017
Money Macro and Finance PhD Conference, Portsmouth, 2017
Royal Economic Society PhD Meetings, London, 2017
European Public Choice Society Conference, Freiburg, 2016
Public Choice Society Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, 2016
Scholarships and Awards
First prize award for the best PhD paper at the 49th Money Macro and Finance Annual Conference
Royal Economic Society PhD Financial Assistance
Ellis Hunter Teaching Scholarship, University of York
Teaching
Graduate level
Central University of Finance and Economics: Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Public Finance
University of York: MSc dissertation supervision
Undergraduate level
Central University of Finance and Economics: Fiscal and Monetary Policy
University of York: Microeconomics II (2nd year); Mathematics II (2nd year); Mathematics I (1st year); Maths Drop-In Sessions (1st-3rd year)
Media Coverage
My research has received the press coverage by the Royal Economic Society: “Labour Income Inequality Hurts Growth, Capital Inequality Boots It”
Languages and Skills
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Eviews, Oxmetrics, Stata, LATEX, Mathematica, MATLAB
Memberships
American Economic Association; Econometric Society; European Economic Association; Royal Economic Society; Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
