Assistant Professor in Economics, the University of Reading.
Research interests: Behavioural Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
Email: LiTang[dot]Econ@gmail[dot]com
News:
I will be joining the University of Birmingham as an Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics from January 2026.
I am co-organizing the 56th Money, Macro and Finance Society conference [call for papers] in 2025 at Reading.
Central Bank Communication and House Price Expectations (with Carola Binder and Pei Kuang) [PDF] [NBER WP(31232)] Journal of the European Economic Association. Accepted. Coverage: [Central banking]
Are Stock Price Forecasts Anchored by Fundamental Forecasts? A Long-run Perspective (with Pei Kuang, Renbin Zhang and Tongbin Zhang) Economic Theory, Volume 79, 2025, Pages 657–685.
(Mis)perception of Party Congruence and Satisfaction with Democracy (with Royce Carroll and Yen-Chieh Liao) Political Science Research and Methods, 2024.
Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working From Home (with Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge, and Yikai Wang) European Economic Review, Volume 167, August 2024, 104788. Coverage: [ISER] [CEPR]
Forecast Disagreement about Long-run Macroeconomic Relationships (with Pei Kuang, Renbin Zhang and Tongbin Zhang) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 200, August 2022, Pages 371-387.
Disagreement under Imperfect Memory: Theory and Evidence (with Pei Kuang and Michael Weber)
Information Treatments, Hypotheticals, and Event Studies: Comparative Estimates (with Carola Binder, Dimitris Georgarakos and Pei Kuang)
Macroprudential Policy and Housing Market Expectations (with Pei Kuang, Kaushik Mitra and Shihan Xie) [PDF] Revise and resubmit, European Economic Review
Focusing on What Matters: Information Relevance and Macroeconomic Expectations (with Shihan Xie and Penghui Yin)
Navigating Fiscal Fog: Household Expectations in an Uncertain Fiscal Environment (with Junjie Guo, Shihan Xie and Penghui Yin) [PDF] Revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Output Gap Estimation and Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge (with Pei Kuang and Kaushik Mitra) [PDF]
Electoral Reform and Geographically-Targeted Oversight: Evidence from Taiwan Legislative Yuan (with Yen-Chieh Liao) [PDF] Revise and resubmit, Electoral Studies
Multi-Dimensional Policy Congruence and Political Attitudes (with Royce Carroll and Yen-Chieh Liao)
Generative AI and the Labor Market: Workers’ Beliefs and Behavioral Responses (with Marian Rizov and Xufei Zhang) [PDF]