Wei Jiang

Wei Jiang joined the University of Kent in July 2013. She obtained her MSc in Economics from the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics, University of Edinburgh in 2008 and PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow in 2013. She also worked as an Associate Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of Scotland in the final year of her PhD.

Wei has worked with various types of models including heterogeneous agent models, union bargaining models, search-and-matching models, and models with equilibrium unemployment. In the process of undertaking her research, she has used many mathematical and computational skills involved with first- and second-order and non-linear model solution methods and various forms of policy analysis including tax reforms, state-contingent and Ramsey policy.