Associate Professor
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 – ext: 5817
Email: saten.kumar@aut.ac.nz
Qualifications:
- Phd in Economics
- Master of Commerce in Economics
- B.Ed in Economics
Memberships and Affiliations:
- Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University (ANU), 2014 onwards
- Research Associate, Centre for Macroeconomics, Massey University, 2018 onwards
- Research Associate, Auckland Centre for Financial Research (ACFR), 2012 onwards
- Member of the Royal Economic Society (RSA), 2012 onwards
- Member of the American Economic Association (AEA), 2014 onwards
Biography:
Please visit
www.satenkumar.com
Teaching Areas:
- Macroeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
Research Areas:
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary Economics
Research Summary:
I work on macroeconomic topics, including monetary policy, price setting behaviour of firms, how agents form their expectations, and inflation measurement. My recent work utilized primary quantitative surveys to explore macroeconomic issues. My research papers have been presented at the following conferences or institutions (among others):
American Economic Association (AEA), Royal Economic Society (RES), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, European Central Bank, Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), Brookings Institution, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Sveriges Riksbank, Bank of Canada, Bank of France, CES Ifo, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Southern Economic Association (SEA), Princeton University, University of Chicago, University of California Los Angeles and University of California Berkeley.
Current Research Projects:
- Firms’ inflation expectations
- Higher order inflation expectations
- K-level thinking