Institute for Health and Human Development

Dr. Ge Yu

Position: Research Fellow

Telephone: 0208 223 7308

Fax: +44 (0)20 8223 4282

Email: g.yu@uel.ac.uk

Contact address:

IHHD, UH250
Stratford Campus
University of East London
Water Lane
London
E15 4LZ

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Brief biography:

Ge Yu is an Economist within IHHD at the University of East London. Ge graduated with a degree in International Finance from Zhejiang University, China. He gained an MBA at the University of Southampton, an MA in Economics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Economics from the University of Bath in 2007.

He worked on an ESRC project, The long-term effects of divorce legislation on children and adults in Europe, at the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield. Following this he moved to IHHD in September 2008 and is working on a social and economic development in relation with Health and Wellbeing.

Summary of Expertise/ Areas of interest:

• Macroeconomics
• Behavioural Economics
• Labour Economics
• Health Economics
• Applied Microeconometrics.

Current projects:

• Well London Adult Survey
• Art Participation and Attendance
• Healthy Redbridge
• Tower Hamlet Vascular Programme

Publications:

• YU, Ge (2002), Exploring Taiwanese Companies in Mainland China, Sino-Foreign Management Journal, vol. 112(3), pp. 51-52
• YU, Ge (2003), Measuring Abnormal Security Return in Shanghai Stock Market, China Securities Journal, vol. 96 (5), pp. 96-97
• John G. Sessions and Ge YU, An Empirical Analysis of Rational Expectations Using British Household Panel Data (working paper)
• Tarja Viitanen and Ge YU, The Impact of Divorce on Children: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Literature (working paper)
• YU, G., Renton A., and Wall M., Prevalence of Physical Inactivity and Its Relation to Social Environment in Deprived Areas (working paper)

Presentations:

• University of Bath, UK, 2003, Comparing Expectations and Outcomes: Application to UK Data
• Econometric Study Group Conference, University of Bristol, UK, July 2005, Dummy Variables in Regression Model
• University of Bath, UK, 2005, Excess Sensitivity of Consumption using Micro Data in the UK
• University of Sheffield, UK, 2008, Rationality Test and Excess Sensitivity Test using Micro Data in the UK

Other responsibilities:

• Teaching: Introduction to STATA
• Visiting research fellow in London South Bank University

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