Welcome to my website. I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at HKUST.

I will be on the job market in the academic year 2025-26.

Job Market Paper: Unintended Environmental Cost of Monetary Tightening: The Federal Reserve and Air Pollution [Draft] [Brief slides]

I use the big-data approach to study monetary policy, economic development, and green finance. My projects apply cutting-edge computational tools to big geospatial data, mapping economic activities where traditional data are limited. This approach delivers detailed, disaggregated microdata for macro-level insights on policy and sustainability. It highlights important implications for sustainable economic growth, especially in relation to pollution, urbanization, and inequality.

My current research projects focus on:

• The impact of monetary policy on pollution and urbanization in developing countries
• Macroeconomic implications of urban expansion and the construction sector
• Household heterogeneity and inequality arising from urbanization and education

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