Staff

Dr. Gang Sun finished his PhD in Economics at University of Oslo in 2011. During the academic year 2009/2010, he visited the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota. Gang did his MA Econ at Fudan University and BA Econ at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He joined the University of St Andrews in Autumn 2011.

• EC5204 Mathematical Economics (PMT)
• EC5605 Monetary Policy (PMT)

• EC5204 Macroeconomics
• EC5704 Computations in Finance (PMT)
• EC5705 Options and Derivatives (PMT)
• EC3203 Advanced Macroeconomics (Tutorials)

Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Behavioural Economics, Political Economy, Chinese Economy

•  “Anti-corruption, Market Construction and Economic Growth”, with Ming Lu and Jipeng Zhang, China Economic Quarterly, 2005, No.5, 1-22.  (in Chinese)
•  “Pollution, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development”, World Economic Papers, 2004, No.5, 47-58. (in Chinese)

• “Complete Markets Strikes Back: Revisiting Risk Sharing Tests under Discount Rate Heterogeneity”
• “Insure the Uninsurable by Yourself: Accounting for Consumption Insurance in a Life-cycle Model”
• “Consumption Inequality with Ex Ante Heterogeneity ”
• “Endogenous Technological Adoption and Wage Inequality” with Jinfeng Ge

• “Conspicuous Consumption and Social Welfare: A Quantitative Approach”  (in Progress)
• “Income Distribution and Exchange rate in China” with Jim Jin (in Progress)