Chang Gao
PhD Candidate in Economics
I am a 4-year PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma. My research interest is on the intersection of real estate and macroeconomics, I had been trying to understand the housing boom (and now, the collapse) of China for a long time.
Research
Recently I had been working on the relationship between local government debt (mainly LGFV debt) and housing cycles happened in China, both empirically and with DSGE models.
70 China Cities Housing Index Data [Github Repo]
Monthly housing price index data for 70 major Chinese cities, published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Collected, cleaned, and automatically updated.
Example of Housing Price Index
Current Research
I am currently working on research xxx.
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Work in Progress
Planning to explore aaa.
Teaching
I teach ECON1113 - Principles of Macroeconomics and ECON2843 - Elements of Statistics at OU.
ECON2843: Elements of Statistics
An introductory statistics course focusing on data analysis and statistical methods in economics.
ECON1113: Principles of Macroeconomics
Introduction to macroeconomic principles, covering GDP, inflation, unemployment, and economic policy.
Notes
Here are some notes I wrote in previous study, which might be helpful for courses relates to them:
Notes on Cournot oligopoly from \(2\) to \(2n\) players Little notes on the proof of dynamic programming using envelope theorem Why \(n-1\) on the denominator of sample variance for ECON2843 at OU