About
Dr Yue Gai joined Swansea University in September 2021 as a Lecturer in Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Cardiff University. Before joining Swansea, she worked as a Research Associate at the Julian Hodge Institute of Applied Macroeconomics, Cardiff University, where she studied the post-Brexit regional economic impacts across the UK. During that time, she also served as a part-time Lecturer and Module Leader for first-year undergraduate Business Economics at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Dr Gai's primary research interests lie in applied macroeconomics, with a particular focus on monetary and fiscal policy and financial frictions. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of International Money and Finance. She also conducts research on housing and land markets, with recent work appearing in the Journal of Accounting Literature. In addition, she is involved in a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust project exploring the development of green energy transition.
Alongside her research, Dr Gai is committed to high-quality teaching and student development. She teaches modules in macroeconomics, monetary economics, econometrics, and business economics, encouraging students to apply economic theory to real-world policy challenges.
She also welcomes PhD students interested in topics related to monetary policy, financial frictions, housing and land markets, and energy economics.