SATEN KUMAR
Professor of Economics
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext: 5817
Email: skumar@aut.ac.nz
QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD in Economics (2012, AUT, NZL)
Master of Commerce in Economics (2007, USP, FJI)
Postgraduate Diploma in Economics (2006, USP, FJI)
Bachelor of Education in Economics (2004, USP, FJI)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Professor, School of Economics, Auckland University of Technology, 2021-
Associate Professor, School of Economics, Auckland University of Technology, 2015-2021
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Auckland University of Technology, 2012-2015
Lecturer, Department of Economics, Auckland University of Technology, 2010-2012
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Research Associate, Center for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University (ANU), 2014-
Research Associate, New Zealand Center for Macroeconomics, Massey University, 2018-
Senior Research Fellow, Auckland Centre for Financial Research, 2019-
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Macroeconomics
WORKING PAPERS:
Weber, Michael., Candia, Bernardo., Ropele, Tiziano., Lluberas, Rodrigo., Frache, Serafin., Meyer, Brent., Kumar, Saten., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., Georgarakos, Dimitris., Coibion, Olivier., Kenny, Geoff., and Ponce, Jorge. "Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Learning in Low and High-Inflation Settings," NBER WP# 31489; CEPR DP# 18299; IZA DP# 16305. Citations.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Kumar, Saten., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., and Coibion, Olivier. "The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Firm Decisions," accepted for publication at Econometrica. NBER WP# 30288; CEPR DP# 17495; IZA DP# 15449; VoxEU. Citations.
Kumar, Saten., and Wesselbaum, Dennis. "Contracts and Firms' Inflation Expectations." accepted for publication at Review of Economics and Statistics. Citations.
Coibion, Olivier., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., Kumar, Saten., and Ryngaert, Jane. (2021) "Do You Know That I Know You Know...? Higher Order Beliefs in Survey Data." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136, pp. 1387-1446. NBER WP# 24987. Citations.
Coibion, Olivier., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., Kumar, Saten., and Pedemonte, Mathieu. (2020) "Inflation Expectations A Policy Tool?," Journal of International Economics. 124, pp. 1-27. NBER WP# 24788. Citations. (Won the Calvo award 2022 for best paper in international macroeconomics)
Kumar, Saten.(2020) "Firms' Asset Holdings and Inflation Expectations." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 170, pp. 193-205. Citations.
Coibion, Olivier., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., and Kumar, Saten. (2018) "How Do Firms Form Their Expectations? New Survey Evidence," American Economic Review, 108, pp. 2671-2713. NBER WP# 21092. Citations.
Kumar, Saten. (2016) “Is the U.S. Consumer Credit Asymmetric?” Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 63, pp.194-216. Citations.
Kumar, Saten., Afrouzi, Hassan., Coibion, Olivier., and Gorodnichenko, Yuriy. (2015) "Inflation Targeting Does Not Anchor Inflation Expectations: Evidence from Firms in New Zealand" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , Fall Issue, pp. 151-225. NBER WP# 21814. Citations.
Paradiso, Antonio., Kumar, Saten., and Margani, Patricia. (2014) “Are Italian Consumer Confidence Adjustments Asymmetric? A Macroeconomic and Psychological Motives Approach,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 43, pp.48-63. Citations.
CITATIONS:
All Since 2018
Citations 2489 1663
h-index 25 16
i10-index 36 26
Source: data reported from Google Scholar
This site was last updated on 13 July 2023