Prof. Yulei LUO
Economics

Professor
2859 1042
yuleiluo@hku.hk
KK 916
http://www.fbe.hku.hk/~yluo/


Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D., M.A., Princeton University
B.S., Wuhan University
Biography
Prof. Yulei LUO graduated from Wuhan University in 1997 with B.S. in Electronics and Information System, and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2005.? He joined the Faculty of Business and Economics (now HKU Business School) in 2006 and became Associate Professor in 2012.
Yulei’s research interests are in macroeconomics, asset pricing, and international finance. He has papers published in academic journals including Management Science,Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Inquiry, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Yulei has done some work on sticky information, robustness, and aggregate fluctuations.? He has also studied the implications of idiosyncratic shocks and incomplete markets on wealth inequality and aggregate dynamics.? His current research interests are about optimal consumption-savings and portfolio rules under induced uncertainty, and their implications for asset pricing, business cycles, and welfare.
Research Interest
Macroeconomics
Asset Pricing
International Finance
Selected Publications
Publications in Refereed Journals:
“Money, Growth, and Welfare in a Schumpeterian Model with the Spirit of Capitalism,”
(with Qichun He, Jun Nie, and Heng-fu Zou), Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming.
“Robust Investment Strategies with Two Risky Assets,”
(with Qian Lin and Xianming Sun), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming.
“Ignorance, Pervasive Uncertainty, and Household Finance,”
(with Jun Nie and Haijun Wang), Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
“Ambiguity, Low Risk-Free Rates, and Consumption Inequality,”
(with Jun Nie and Eric R. Young), The Economic Journal?130(632), 2020, pp. 2649-2679.
“Portfolio Choice with Information-Processing Limits,”
(with Altantsetseg Batchuluun and Eric R. Young), Annals of Economics and Finance 20(1), 2019, pp. 137-162.
“Rational Inattention and the Dynamics of Consumption and Wealth in General Equilibrium,”
(with Jun Nie, Gaowang Wang, and Eric R. Young), Journal of Economic Theory 172, 2017, pp. 55-87.
“Elastic Attention, Risk Sharing, and International Comovements,”
(with Wei Li and Jun Nie), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 79, 2017, pp. 1-20. (Lead Article)
“Robustly Strategic Consumption-Portfolio Rules with Informational Frictions,”
Management Science 63(12), 2017, pp. 4158-4174.
“Induced Uncertainty, Market Price of Risk, and the Dynamics of Consumption and Wealth,”
(with Eric R. Young),?Journal of Economic Theory?163, 2016, pp. 1-41. (Lead Article)
“Long-run Consumption Risk and Asset Allocation under Recursive Utility and Rational Inattention,”
(with Eric R. Young),?Journal of Money, Credit and Banking?48(2-3), 2016, pp. 325-362.
“Attention Misallocation, Social Welfare, and Policy Implications,”
(with Heng Chen and Guangyu Pei),?Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control?59, 2015, pp. 37-57.
“Slow Information Diffusion and the Inertial Behavior of Durables Consumption,”
(with Jun Nie and Eric R. Young),?Journal of the European Economic Association?13(5), 2015, pp. 805-840.
“Model Uncertainty and Intertemporal Tax Smoothing,”
(with Jun Nie and Eric R. Young),?Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control?45, 2014, pp. 289-314.
“Robust Control, Informational Frictions, and International Consumption Correlations,”
(with Jun Nie and Eric R. Young),?European Economic Review?67, 2014, pp. 1-27. (Lead Article)
“Signal Extraction and Rational Inattention,”
(with Eric R. Young),?Economic Inquiry?52(2), 2014, pp. 811-829.
“Robustness, Information-processing Constraints, and the Current Account in Small Open Economies,”
(with Jun Nie and Eric R. Young),?Journal of International Economics?88(1), 2012, pp. 104-120.
“Rational Inattention, Long-run Consumption Risk, and Portfolio Choice,”
Review of Economic Dynamics?13(4), 2010, pp. 843-860.
“Asset Pricing under Information-processing Constraints,”
(with Eric R. Young),?Economics Letters?107(1), 2010, pp. 26-29.
“Risk-sensitive Consumption and Savings under Rational Inattention,”
(with Eric R. Young),?American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics?2(4), 2010, pp. 281-325.
“A Note on Entrepreneurial Risk, Capital Market Imperfections, and Heterogeneity,”
(with Liutang Gong and Heng-fu Zou),?Macroeconomic Dynamics?14(2), 2010, pp. 269-284.
“The Spirit of Capitalism and Excess Smoothness,”
(with Williams T. Smith and Heng-fu Zou),?Annals of Economics and Finance?10(2), 2009, pp. 281-301.
“Rational Inattention and Aggregate Fluctuations,”
(with Eric R. Young),?The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 9: Iss. 1 (Contributions), 2009, Article 14, pp. 1-41.
“The Spirit of Capitalism, Precautionary Savings, and Consumption,”
(with Williams T. Smith and Heng-fu Zou),?Journal of Money, Credit and Banking?41(2-3), 2009, pp. 543-554.
“The Wealth Distribution and the Demand for Status,”
(with Eric R. Young),?Macroeconomic Dynamics?13(S1), 2009, pp. 1-30. (Lead Article)
“Consumption Dynamics under Information Processing Constraints,”
Review of Economic Dynamics?11(2), 2008, pp. 366-385.
Book Chapters:
“Model Uncertainty, State Uncertainty, and State-Space Models,”
(with Jun Nie and Eric R. Young), in?State Space Models — Application in Economics and Finance,?Springer-Verlag, 2012.
“Social Status and the Term Structure of Interest Rates in Stochastic Production Economies,”
(with Liutang Gong and Heng-fu Zou), in?Economic Dynamics: Theory, Games and Empirical Studies, Nova Science Publisher, 2009.