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Dr Zheyi Zhu

Department: School of Management

Office/Location: 2.41a

Telephone: 02920416936

Email: ZZhu@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Staff Overview

​Before joining Cardiff Metropolitan University in August 2022, Dr Zheyi Zhu held research fellow position at the Cardiff University, where he obtained his PhD in Economics and MSc in Financial economics.

Zheyi has over ten years of knowledge and experience in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His main research interest includes open economy macroeconomics and policy, macro-econometrics, implementation of simulation-based method estimation.

His recent papers have been published in Journal of Financial stability, Heliyon, Journal of cleaner production, International Journal of Finance and Economics, and Open Economies Review.

As an honorary research fellow at Julian Hodge Institute of Applied Macroeconomics in Cardiff Business school, Zheyi also contributes forecasts on major economic indicators of the UK and other leading economies. These forecasts are published in Liverpool investment letter (ISSN 0951-9262) and Quarterly Economic Bulletin (ISSN 0952-0724).​

Teaching

​​Teaching in Cardiff Met University

BEC4008 Business Economics

BEC6025 Econometrics

BEC7005 Microeconomics Analysis

BRM3003 Application of Numeracy

PhD Supervision

Lei Yue, Cardiff University, A model of inequality and growth for the post-war US economy, completed March 2023

Dr. Yuji Fang, Cardiff University, Policies for reviving the Japanese economy: Small open economy DSGE with indirect inference method, awarded March 2022

Dr. Jonathan Lloyd, Cardiff University, Impacts of a new harmonised regulatory index on a small open economy DSGE model of UK regulation, awarded June 2021​

Research

​​Applied Macroeconomics

Macro-econometrics

Macroeconomic modelling and forecasting

Quantitative modelling and data analysis

Sustainable finance

Key Publications

​​Publications

[1] Yin, W., Zhang, M., Zhu, Z., and Zhao, E. (2023) A Novel Approach Based on Similarity Measure for the Multiple Attribute Group Decision-making Problem in Selecting a Sustainable Cryptocurrency. Heliyon, Vol 9, (5). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16051

[2] Minford, P., Ou, Z., Wickens, M., and Zhu, Z. (2022) ‘What is to be done to maintain macro and financial stability?’, Journal of Financial Stability, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2022.101064

[3] Xiao, B., Yin, W., Zhu, Z. (2022) Does the Air Quality Benefit from Lockdown Policy? Evidence from Major Cities in China, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Green Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (GEESD2022) DOI: 10.3233/ATDE220341

[4] Minford, P., Ou, Z., and Zhu, Z. (2022) ‘Is there Consumer Risk-Pooling in the Open Economy? The Evidence Reconsidered’, Open Economies Review, DOI: 10.1007/s11079-021-09622-w

[5] Yin, W., Zhu, Z., Kirkulak-Uludag, B., and Zhu, Y. (2021) ‘The determinants of green credit and its impact on the performance of Chinese banks*’, Journal of cleaner production, Vol 286, 124991. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124991

[6] Minford, P., Ou, Z., and Zhu, Z. (2021) ‘Can a small New Keynesian model of the world economy with risk-pooling match the facts?’, International Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol 26. (2) 1993-2021. DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.1890

Other Projects and activities

​​Honours and awards

2022-Present Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff Business school

2021 The National Key R&D Program of China(2021QY2100).

2020 National Natural Science Foundation of China (71503041)

2017-2020 Julian Hodge Post-Doctoral Research Associate

2013-2016 Julian Hodge PhD Scholarship

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