Dr Ran Gu
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872754
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Location
5B.334, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Friday 9 am-11 am (by email appointment)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Labour Economics
Search and Matching
Conferences and presentations
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach
Invited presentation, Workshop on Financial Advice and Risk Preferences, Paris, France, 7/12/2023
Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars
Invited presentation, Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 8/9/2023
Human Capital and the Business Cycle Effects on the Postgraduate Wage Premium
Invited presentation, Labor, Firms, and Macro Workshop, Philadelphia, United States, 15/7/2023
Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars
Invited presentation, Workshop of Macro and Finance 2023, Shanghai, China, 13/7/2023
Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars
Invited presentation, Structural Econometrics Working Group 1, London, United Kingdom, 28/6/2023
Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Skill Requirements in Job Vacancy Postings
Invited presentation, 21st IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists (TAM), 8/6/2022
Teaching and supervision
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Economics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/1/2025
Degree subject: Economics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 19/5/2021
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Xue, B., Chung, H., Gu, R. and McMunn, A., (2026). Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 80 (1), 17-24
Blundell, R., Gu, R., Leth-Petersen, S., Low, H. and Meghir, C., (2026). Durables and lemons: Private information and the market for cars. Quantitative Economics. 17 (1), 38-91
Gu, R., Peng, C. and Zhang, W., (2024). The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach. The Review of Financial Studies
Gu, R., (2023). Human Capital and the Business Cycle Effects on the Postgraduate Wage Premium. Review of Economic Dynamics. 48, 345-376
Gu, R. and Zhong, L., (2023). Effects of stay-at-home orders on skill requirements in vacancy postings. Labour Economics. 82, 102342-102342
Blundell, RW., Gu, R., Leth‐Petersen, S., Low, H. and Meghir, C., (2019). Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars. Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper (2197)
Tang, K., Gu, S., Ye, J., Zhu, S., Huang, S., Gu, R., Zhang, R., Shi, Y. and Zheng, Y., (2012). Mutually beneficial doping of tellurium and nitrogen in ZnO films grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films. 30 (5)
Reports and Papers (1)
Gu, R., A postgraduate degree protects you against the business cycle
Grants and funding
2020
Who Wears the Pants? Household Risk Attitudes and Intra-Household Financial Decision-Making
University of Cambridge
2019
Risk Attitude and Portfolio Choice: An Intra-household Perspective
British Academy
Contact
Academic support hours:
Friday 9 am-11 am (by email appointment)