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Department of Economics

National University of Singapore

AS2, 1 Arts Link,Singapore 117570

Email: ecswong at nus.edu.sg; Fax: 6775 2646

 

Academic Positions

Associate Professor (without tenure), Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 2011 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 2001-2010

 

Education

B.Soc.Sci. (1ST Class Hons), National University of Singapore, 1995


Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2001

Note: Also passed the finance preliminary examination at the Haas School of Business


Teaching Fields

Behavioral Economics, Macroeconomics, Financial Economics

 

Research Fields

Behavioral Economics, Macroeconomics, Empirical Topics in General


Scholarships, Grants, and Honors

2005 – 2010: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Excellent Teacher Award (6 times)

2004 – 2009, 2010-2011: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Staff Research Support Scheme

1996 – 2001: National University of Singapore Overseas Graduate Scholarship

2000: Mini Grant for Data Acquisition, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

1995: Monetary Authority of Singapore Book Prize; S K Lee Scholarship

1994: Singapore National Employers Federation Bronze Medal; Singapore National Academy of Science Award; Tan Lark Sye Scholarship

1993: NTUC Medal


Publications


1. Wei-Kang Wong, How Good Are Trade and Telephone Call Traffic in Bridging Income Gaps and TFP Gaps, Journal of International Economics, 64(2), 2004, pp. 441-463.


2. Wei-Kang Wong, OECD Convergence: A Sectoral Decomposition Exercise, Economics Letters., 93(2), November 2006, pp. 210-214.

3. Wei-Kang Wong, Economic Growth: A Channel Accounting Exercise, The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics : Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 4, January 2007.

         The first circulated draft of this paper was titled The Channels of Economic Growth: A Channel Decomposition Exercise in year 2001 on Brad Delong's website.

4. Wei-Kang Wong, Nominal Increases and the Perception of Likelihood, Economics Letters, 95(3), June 2007, pp.433-437.

5. Wei-Kang Wong, Comparing the Fit of the Gravity Model for Different Cross-Border Flows, Economics Letters, 99(3), June 2008, pp.474-477.

6. Wei-Kang Wong, How Much Time-Inconsistency Is There and Does It Matter? Evidence on Self-Awareness, Size, and Effects, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 68(3-4), December 2008, pp.645-656.

7.  Jack Knetsch and Wei-Kang Wong, The Endowment Effect and the Reference State: Evidence and Manipulations, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 71(2), August 2009, 407-413.

8. Eddie Sue and Wei-Kang Wong, The Political Economy of Housing Prices: Hedonic Pricing with Regression Discontinuity, Journal of Housing Economics, 19(2), June 2010, 133-144.

9. Wei-Kang Wong, Consumption Response to Government Transfers: Behavioral Motives Revealed by Savers and Spenders, Contemporary Economic Policy (Accepted for Publication), April 2011.

 

Working Papers


1. Wei-Kang Wong, Parental Valuation of Priority Admission to Primary Schools: The Effects of Academic Reputation and Choices (March 2011)


2. Weining Koh & Wei-Kang Wong, The Endowment Effect and the Willingness to Accept-Willingness to Pay Gap: Subject Misconceptions or Reference Dependence?

3. Kaimin Khaw & Wei-Kang Wong, How Much Does An Additional Year of Schooling Improve Skills in Reading, Mathematics and Science? A Regression Discontinuity Approach.

4. Melvin Koh and Wei-Kang Wong, The Channels of Conditional Convergence During 1960-2000: Allowing for Variable Capital Shares Across Countries.

 

Unpublished Papers


1. Wei-Kang Wong, Does Money Illusion Still Matter After Some Economics Education? (April 2005)


2. Wei-Kang Wong, Deviations from Pocketbook Voting in Income Redistribution: Evidence and Implications (August 2004), First Version (September 2001)


Other Writings

1. Story Telling in the Teaching of Macroeconomics: An Economist's Tales (March 20, 2005).  Paper for presentation in the FASS-CDTL symposium: Innovative Approaches to University Teaching and Learning

2. Some Random and Non-Random Thoughts on Teaching.  Write-up for the Departmental Newsletter.

 

Newspaper Article

Are high household savings always beneficial in Singapore? - Straits Time (21 Oct 2010)


Other Random Stuff

 

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