About

Yeow Hwee Chua is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he is Deputy Director of the Economic Growth Centre and a Faculty Affiliate of the Global Institute of Finance, Technology, and Society (GIFTS). He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) and serves as Honorary Secretary of the Economics Society of Singapore.

Working at the intersection of household finance, behavioral macroeconomics, and public economics, he studies how households form expectations and make financial decisions in response to economic policies and uncertainty. His research agenda connects micro-level behavior to broader macroeconomic outcomes, with an emphasis on the distributional effects of policy. To address these questions, he combines administrative and experimental data, with a focus on Asian economies.

His research has been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His economic commentary has been featured in international and regional media outlets, including BBC, CNBC, Fortune, Al Jazeera, CNA, and The Straits Times. He also serves on the Strategy Committee of the Consumers Association of Singapore.

Prior to joining NTU, he was a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from the National University of Singapore and his MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a CFA charterholder.