About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Center for Economic Research, Shandong University. My research focuses on imperfect information, macroeconomic fluctuations, monetary economics, and financial markets. I am advised by Prof. Gaowang Wang.
Research
Working Papers
Accepted with major revision at Journal of Monetary Economics
Optimal monetary policy
Idiosyncratic shock
Confounding information
Price stability
We develop a model of optimal monetary policy in an economy where firms' price-setting
decisions are distorted by a signal-extraction problem: they cannot perfectly distinguish
aggregate from idiosyncratic shocks based on noisy local information. This systematic
misattribution of aggregate nominal disturbances to firm-specific factors generates an
additional indirect price response, implying that strict price stability is no longer optimal.
Instead, the optimal policy fully stabilizes the output gap, which necessarily requires
accommodating fluctuations in the price level. The cyclicality of the optimal price level
depends critically on the source of firms' incomplete information: learning from local
demand signals implies a procyclical price level, whereas learning from local productivity
signals yields a countercyclical one. We show that these results are robust to extensions
featuring elastic attention and sentiment shocks.
Research Interests
Information Frictions
Macroeconomics
Monetary Policy
Financial Markets
Teaching
Advanced Macroeconomics (Graduate)
Grading, office hours Q&A, and final exam review.