Research Agenda

Yeow Hwee Chua studies how beliefs and institutions shape household decisions under uncertainty. His work sits at the intersection of behavioral macroeconomics, household finance, and public economics.

This research agenda is organized around three connected areas: macroeconomic expectations and uncertainty, public policy and household decision-making, as well as risk and attention. Across these areas, he examines how beliefs about prices, risks, and opportunities shape consumption, saving, borrowing, insurance, portfolio choice, and housing decisions.

Combining administrative data, quasi-experimental research designs, survey experiments, and behavioral theory, he studies the link from micro to macro: how expectations, constraints, and household choices aggregate into broader economic outcomes.