Research Agenda

Yeow Hwee CHUA studies how beliefs and institutions shape household decisions under uncertainty. His research connects behavioral macroeconomics, household finance, and public economics by examining how individuals respond to policy, risk, and informational environments, and how these responses scale into market and macroeconomic outcomes.

His work develops three connected areas: macroeconomic expectations and uncertainty; public policy and household decisions; as well as risk and attention. Across these areas, he studies how beliefs about prices, risks, and opportunities shape financial and real decisions.

He uses administrative data, quasi-experimental variation, survey experiments, and behavioral theory to understand how micro-level beliefs and constraints translate into broader market, policy, and macroeconomic outcomes.