Welcome!

I am Xueliang Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine, advised by Professors Eric Swanson (chair), Fabio Milani, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez.

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Research interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Finance, and Time Series Econometrics. 

I spent the summer of 2024 as a PhD intern at the International Monetary Fund, and the summer of 2025 at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (Hong Kong Monetary Authority). Before PhD, I worked at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

I am currently on the 2025-26 Job Market. You can contact me at xuelianw@uci.edu 

News: I will present "Market's Time-Varying Sensitivity to Macro News and Monetary Policy: the Role of Attention" at the Midwest Macro Meetings (Cleveland, Nov 2025) and AFA Poster Session (Philadelphia, Jan 2026)