YIKAI WANG | 王一凯
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​​​Lecturer (with tenure)
Department of Economics, University of Essex
​PhD in Economics, University of Zurich, summa cum laude
[email protected]

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Research Interests
  • Macroeconomics, Political Economy
  • Public Finance, Applied Machine Learning, Macro Labour

Publications and R&R
  • "The Optimum Quantity of Capital and Debt"
    with Ömer Acikgöz,  Marcus  Hagedorn and Hans Holter
    Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
  • "Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working From Home"
    with Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge and Li Tang​

    European Economic Review, 2024, 167
  • "The Politico-Economic Dynamics of China’s Growth" 
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19(1)
  • "Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China"
    with Zheng Song, Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti
    American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7(2): 1–39, lead article
    Media coverage: The Economist, VoxEU, and Credit Suisse Global Investor

Recent Working Papers​​​
  • "Clustering Workers and Firms: Types and Match Qualities"  [Slides]
    ​​with Marcus Hagedorn and Iourii Manovskii
  • "Search Frictions and Wage Dispersion" [Slides]
    with Marcus Hagedorn and Iourii Manovskii
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