WONG Wei Kang
WONG Wei Kang
Associate Professor (Education)
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
AS2 04-20
6516 6016
ecswong@nus.edu.sg
Curriculum Vitae
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TEACHING AREAS |
| Behavioral Economics Macroeconomics |
RESEARCH AREAS |
| Behavioral Economics |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
| "How Good Are Trade and Telephone Traffic in Bridging Income Gaps and TFP Gaps?"Â Journal of International Economics, 64(2), pp.441-463, 2004.
"OECD Convergence: A Sectoral Decomposition Exercise", Economics Letters, 93(2), pp.210–214, 2006. "Economic Growth: A Channel Accounting Exercise", The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 4, 2007. "Nominal Increases and the Perception of Likelihood", Economics Letters, 95(3), pp.433-437, 2007. "Comparing the Fit of the Gravity Model for Different Cross-Border Flows", Economics Letters, 99(3), pp.474-477, 2008. "How Much Time-Inconsistency Is There and Does It Matter? Evidence on Self-Awareness, Size, and Effects", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68(3-4), pp.645-656, 2008. "The Endowment Effect and the Reference State: Evidence and Manipulation", with Jack Knetsch, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71(2), August 2009, 407-413. "The Political Economy of Housing Prices: Hedonic Pricing with Regression Discontinuity", with Eddie Sue, Journal of Housing Economics, 19(2), June 2010, 133-144. "Consumption Response to Government Transfers: Behavioral Motives Revealed by Savers and Spenders", Contemporary Economic Policy, 30(4), October 2012, 489-501. "Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore", with Jia He, Haoming Liu, Tien Foo Sing, and Changcheng Song, Management Science (forthcoming), 2018. |