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 onwards
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 onwards
Research Associate, New Zealand Center for Macroeconomics, Massey University, 2018 onwards
Senior Research Fellow, Auckland Centre for Financial Research, 2019 onwards
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Empirical macroeconomics
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Kumar, Saten., Gorodnichenko, Yuriy., and Coibion, Olivier. "The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Firm Decisions," accepted for publication at Econometrica. NBER Working Paper # 30288; CEPR Discussion Paper # 17495; 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 Working Paper # 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 Working Paper # 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 Working Paper # 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 Working Paper # 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 2332 1512
h-index 24 15
i10-index 36 26
Source: data reported from Google Scholar
This site was last updated on 17 February 2023