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
​​
​​
​​RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Weber, Michael., Candia, Bernardo., Afrouzi, Hassan., 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," accepted for publication at Econometrica. NBER WP# 31489; CEPR DP# 18299; IZA DP# 16305. Citations.
​
Kumar, Saten., and Wesselbaum, Dennis. (2024) "Contracts and Firms' Inflation Expectations." Review of Economics and Statistics,106, pp. 246-255. Citations.
​
Kumar, Saten., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., and Coibion, Olivier. (2023) "The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Firm Decisions," Econometrica, 91, pp. 1297-1332. NBER WP# 30288; CEPR DP# 17495; IZA DP# 15449; VoxEU. 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:
Citations 2990
h-index 25
i10-index 37
Source: data reported from Google Scholar
This site was last updated on 24 October 2024
​