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 teaching responsibilities
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Computational Economics (EC910)
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Topics in Macroeconomics (EC991)
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 (4)
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)
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)
