Dr Yongli Wang SFHEA

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

Dr Yongli Wang is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Birmingham Business School, which he joined in March 2022. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester in 2020 and previously served as a Lecturer at the University of Essex starting in October 2019. During his tenure at Essex, he held key administrative leadership roles as the Deputy Director of both Undergraduate and PGT projects.

Currently serving as the Economics Exchange Tutor at Birmingham Business School, Dr Wang’s research interests include time-series forecasting under uncertainty, structural breaks, and inflation modeling. He has published work in leading journals, including the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Forecasting. As an HEA Fellow, he has been consistently recognized for teaching excellence, receiving multiple Student Choice Award nominations and winning the 2024 Birmingham Business School Student Support Award.

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

Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2026, 'Forecasting Inflation in the Presence of Structural Breaks: A Time-Varying Parameter Approach', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 2102-2111. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.70137

Gefang, D, Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2026, 'The great financial crisis and contagious bank ratings downgrades', Journal of Financial Stability, vol. 84, 101529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2026.101529

Gefang, D, Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2025, 'Does one size fit all? The country-specific effects of ECB monetary policy', European Economic Review, vol. 175, 105025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105025

Hall, SG, Tavlas, GS, Trapani, L & Wang, Y 2025, 'On the Detection of Structural Breaks: The Case of the Covid Shock', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 1042-1070. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.3238

Giannellis, N, Hall, SG, Kouretas, GP, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2025, 'Policymaking in Periods of Structural Changes and Structural Breaks: Rolling Windows Revisited', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 851-855. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.3269

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>

Editorial

Giannellis, N, Hall, SG, Kouretas, GP, Tavlas, GS & Wang, Y 2026, 'Macroeconomic and Financial Forecasting in the Aftermath of the Covid Shock: Inflation Forecasting With Large Language Models', Journal of Forecasting, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 2115-2121. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.70139

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