Mei Dong

Call for Papers: Sixth Melbourne Macro Policy Meeting  October 24-25, 2024

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Research Interests: Monetary Economics, Money and Banking, Macroeconomics

Publications

• • "Inflation and Variety", International Economics Review, 51(2), 401-420. 

  • "One or Two Monies?", with Janet Hua Jiang, Journal of Monetary Economics, 57(4), 439-450.

  • "Inflation and Unemployment in Competitive Search Equilibrium", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15(S2), 252-268.

  • "Money and Price Posting under Private Information", with Janet Hua Jiang, Journal of Economic Theory, 150, 740-777.

  • "Marriage, Markets, and Money: a Coasian Theory of Household Formation", with Kenneth Burdett, Ling Sun and Randall Wright, International Economic Review, 57(2), 337-368.

  • “Macroeconomic Policy and Household Economics”, with Ling Sun and Randall Wright, Economic Policy Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/economic-policy-papers/macroeconomic-policy-and-household-economics.

  • "On the Welfare Effects of Credit Arrangements", with Jonathan Chiu and Enchuan Shao, International Economic Review, 59 (3), 1621-51.

  • "Liquidity, Monetary Policy and Unemployment: a New Monetarist Approach", with Sylvia Xiaolin Xiao, International Economic Review, 60 (2), 1005-25. 

  • "Money and Costly Credit", with Stella Huangfu, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 53 (6), 1449-78.

  • "A Macroeconomic Theory of Banking Oligopoly", with Stella Huangfu, Amy Hongfei Sun and Mark Chenggang Zhou, European Economic Review, 138, 1038-64.

  • "Idle Liquidity, CBDC and Banking", with Sylvia Xiao, European Economic Review, accepted. [SSRN link], previously circulated as "CBDC and Banking: a Corporate Finance Approach". 

Media coverage: FT Chinese

Working Papers

• • "Information, Prices and Exante Investment", with Janet Hua Jiang and Ling Sun.

  • “Product Cycles and Prices: Theory and Evidence,” with Toshiaki Shoji and Yuki Teranishi.

Work in Progress

• • “Unemployment and Imperfections in Credit and Labour Markets,” with Stella Huangfu.

  • “Heterogeneity in the Banking System in the Long Run: Evidence from New Australian Data Spanning a Century,” with Silvio Contessi, Raoul Minetti, Ainura Tursunalieva, and Xuan Vu.

  • “The Dynamic Dirichlet Process Mixture Model: An Application to Bank Size Distribution,” with Silvio Contessi, Yong Song and Xuan Vu.

  • "Banking Centration and Loan Market Power in the Presence of Private Information," with Stella Huangfu, Tim Kam and Sam Ng.