Yongli Wang

The Department of Economics
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Admissions Tutor of Year Abroad Programme

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)1214149212
Email: y.wang.26@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
Department of Economics
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Yongli achieved his PhD in economics at the University of Leicester in 2020. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Essex since October 2019 before he joined the University of Birmingham on March 2022. Prior to joining the Birmingham Business School, Yongli heavily involved in teaching economics modules in macroeconomics and econometrics, and administration duties at Essex, such as the deputy director of the undergraduates’ final project and the deputy director of the PGT dissertation.

He has published work in the Journal of International Money and Finance and the Journal of Forecasting. His research interests include time-series forecasting under uncertainty, structural breaks, and inflation modeling.

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Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of Leicester
MSc Financial Economics, University of Leicester
BSc Finance, Wuhan University, China

Teaching

Macroeconomics
Economics of Corporate Finance
Mathematical Methods for Statistics and Econometrics
Applied Financial Econometrics

Research

Time-series econometrics
Forecasting under uncertainty and structural breaks

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Argiri, E, Hall, SG, Momtsia, A, Papadopoulou, DM, Skotida, I, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2024, 'An evaluation of the inflation forecasting performance of the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Bank of England', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 932-947. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.3063

Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS, Wang, Y & Gefang, D 2024, 'Inflation forecasting with rolling windows: An appraisal', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 827-851. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.3059

Gefang, D, Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2024, 'Quantifying spillovers among regions', Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 140, 102993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2023.102993

Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2023, 'Drivers and spillover effects of inflation: The United States, the euro area, and the United Kingdom☆', Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 131, 102776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2022.102776

Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2023, 'Forecasting inflation: The use of dynamic factor analysis and nonlinear combinations', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 514-529. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2948

Abstract

Kandasamy, D, Morris, D & Wang, Y 2025, 'The Year Abroad programme', 5th Birmingham Business School Education Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 11/09/25 - 11/09/25 pp. 74-75. <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/college-social-sciences/business/events/2025/5th-birmingham-business-school-education-conference-the-conference-book.pdf>

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