Associate Professor
Phone: (852) 26167187 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO307
Email: kycheung@Ln.edu.hk
Kui Yin Cheung is an Associate Professor in
the Department of Economics, and a Research Fellow in the center for Asian
Pacific Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph. D.
in economics from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. His research
interest includes applied econometrics and economics issues of Hong Kong
and China. He is the
co-author of several books and has published various articles locally and
overseas.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Introduction to
Economics, Intermediate Statistics for Social Scientists, International
Trade and Commercial Policy, and Environmental Economics.
Professor
Phone: (852) 261677206 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO216
Email: fansimon@Ln.edu.hk
Personal web-page:
http://www.ln.edu.hk/econ/staff/fansimon/fan.html
C. Simon Fan earned his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1994, working under Professor Oded Galor, Professor David N. Weil, and the late Professor Herschel I. Grossman. His primary research areas are Development/Comparative Economics and Human Capital. His publications have appeared in Economica, Economic Theory, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal, and other journals and scholarly books. In particular, his theoretical and empirical research helps understand the following issues:
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Courses taught in Lingnan: Globalization and Economic Integration, Economics of the Family, Intermediate Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics for Business.
Last updated on 12 September 2006.
Professor,
Chair, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Director of Centre for Public Policy Studies
Phone: (852) 26167178 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO301B
Email: Lsho@Ln.edu.hk
Personal web-page:
http://www.ln.edu.hk/econ/staff/cvlsho.htm
Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Public Policy Studies, Lingnan University, is the author of Principles of Public Policy Practice and Health Care Financing and Delivery: A Model for Reform, and has published over 80 academic papers in journals and book chapters. Prof. Ho has been active in community and professional service. He served as President of the HK Economic Association for eight years through 2007 and has been an Advisor for the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research since 1999, a Council member of the People’s Council for Sustainable Development since 2004. He had also served as a member of HK Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Macroeconomics for Business, Principles of Public Policy, Health Policy, Housing, Transportation and Land Development, Economics of Law and Public Order.
BA (National Taiwan); MA,
PhD (Pennsylvania)
Senior Teaching Fellow
Phone: (852) 26167173 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO315
Email: kclei@Ln.edu.hk
Dr.
Lei received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, one
of the eight Ivy Leagues University in the United States, and completed
his dissertation under the supervision of Professor Lawrence R. Klein ,the
1980 Nobel laureate in Economics. Since joining Lingnan, Dr. Lei
has lectured a variety of economics courses, from elementary to
intermediate, from theoretical to applied, and from micro to macro. Owing
to his high quality teaching and also popularity among students in
Lingnan, he has been nominated by students and colleagues as an candidate
for the Teaching Excellence Awards twice, in 1997/98 and in
1999/2000.
In
teaching, he always takes it as an ultimate goal to train students to
build up a habit of thinking in an economist’s way. His teaching approach
also emphasizes applying economic theory to real world problems. With
respect to research, he has a very broad interests, which includes
macroeconomics, international economics, and economics of the East Asian
economies.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Money and Banking, Public Sector Economics & Budgeting, Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate Marcoeconomics.
Professor
Phone: (852) 26167203 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO206
Email: plin@Ln.edu.hk
Personal web-page:
http://www.ln.edu.hk/econ/staff/plin/plin.html
Ping Lin is Professor at the
Department of Economics, Lingnan University of Hong Kong. He is also a
research fellow at the Center for Public Policy Studies at Lingnan. Ping
Lin earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1993,
taught at Southern Methodist University, and has been at Lingnan since
1997. His research interests are centered on industrial organization, the
economics of innovation, and competition policy. His publications have
appeared in the Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of
Industrial Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, European
Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, and other economic
journals. He teaches courses on industrial organization, microeconomics,
competition policy, and government regulation.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Introduction to Economics,
Intermediate Microeconomics, Industrial Organisation and Competition
Policy & Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour
Head & Professor
Phone: (852) 26167202 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO319
Email: yuema@Ln.edu.hk
Personal web-page: http://www.ln.edu.hk/econ/staff/yuema
Professor MA Yue obtained his BSc in Optimal Control
Theory from Xiamen (Amoy) University at China in 1985, Certificate of
Graduation from Sino-American Economic Training Centre sponsored by Ford
Foundation at People's University of China in 1986, and PhD in Economics
and Econometrics from Manchester University in 1991. He is currently a Professor
in Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where he lectures on
International Finance and Chinese Economy. He is specialized in
international macroeconometric modeling, forecasting and policy
analysis. His research interests include economic modeling of
exchange rate and banking, as well as international policy coordinations,
with particular reference to the economies of mainland China and Hong
Kong. He worked for Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (an
affiliation of Hong Kong Monetary Authority), Princeton University, Oxford
University, National Institute of Economics & Statistics (INSEE in
Paris), Hong Kong Baptist University, European University Institute
(Italy), Stirling University (UK), London Business School, Manchester
University and Strathclyde University (UK) under various research
projects. He is a member of the editorial board of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy.
Courses taught in Lingnan:
International Finance, Money and Banking International Political
Economy, Microeconomics for Business & China’s New Economic
System.
Last updated on 18 Nov., 2004.
BA (Xinjiang); MA
(SUNY-Buffalo); PhD (West Virginia)
Associate Professor
Phone: (852) 26167207 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO215
Email: jimmyran@Ln.edu.hk
Whenever students complain about the
difficulties in learning Economics, I would like to share with them some
of my experiences and feelings. My undergraduate major was English, but I
soon realized that was only a tool, without which I wouldn’t have been
able to learn new ideas. In the late 1980s, one question often lingered in
my mind: why was China so poor and the U.S. so rich? So I went to the U.S.
to become a graduate student, majoring in “American Studies”. It was a
combination of American history, political science, and sociology. The
interdisciplinary nature of the program gave me different and broad
perspectives and many professors there talked about economic problems. But
I found out that their arguments were mainly qualitative without
quantitative support. I wanted to learn a scientific method. The formal
training in Economics provides such a method I badly needed so that I
decided to change my major again. Some professors in American Studies
program told me it would be difficult to make such a change. But I was
successful in entering the realm of Economics. The great benefit has been
that I now have mastered a systematic method for analysis. I hope that
students enjoy such a feature just as I do when you study Economics.
While in New York State, I had visited various
American Indians reservations for my research projects and I had taught
inmates in a prison. During summer I had worked in an Office of
International Students Admissions. In West Virginia, I had worked in a
Statistics Bureau of Business and Economics and taught numerous courses.
For my Ph.D dissertation I stayed in Washington D.C to collect data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S Labor Department and from the
Commerce Department. I declined two job offers in 1997 after I got my
degree and finally came to Lingnan University in September the same
year.
I am interested in many different topics in my
research even though my published papers so far are mainly on the
interactions between exchange rate and trade prices. I am currently doing
research on the stock returns and exchange rate regimes sensitivity, the
relationship between exchange rate and energy prices, and the relationship
between exchange rate and unemployment.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Macroeconomics
for Business, Fundamental Econometric Methods, International Finance,
International Political Economy & Money and Banking.
Professor SEADE, Jesús
B.Sc. Eng. (UNAM-Mexio); B.Phil., DPhil (Oxon)
Vice-President,
Sydney S. W. Leong Chair
Professor of Economics
Phone: (852) 26168288/7132 Fax: (852) 26167195
Office: AD208/SO220
Email: seade@Ln.edu.hk
Professor
Seade studied in Mexico (B.Sc.Eng. /Summa cum Laude/ at UNAM and
M.A.Econ. at El Colegio de Mexico) and in the U.K. (University of
Oxford: B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Economics). He was a Lecturer, Reader,
and from 1984 Professor of Public Economics at Warwick University
(1976-1988), where he co-founded and was Director of its Development
Economics Research Center. On leave from Warwick, he was Director of
Economics at El Colegio de Mexico (1980-81) where he co-founded and
headed the Latin American chapter of the Econometric Society. In 1989 he
was appointed Mexico’s Chief Uruguay Round Trade Negotiator and
Ambassador to GATT, whose senior management he joined as Deputy
Director-General in 1993, as part of the new team that brought those
negotiations to successful conclusion. He remained in that position in
the new WTO, in charge of economics/research, development issues,
trade-finance links, and technical assistance/training. In 1998 he
joined the International Monetary Fund where he was Assistant Director
for Policy Development and then Senior Advisor for Fiscal Affairs. His
work with those international organizations took him on official visits
to close to one hundred countries in all regions of the world.
Professor Seade’s main research interests are in theoretical and applied
fiscal economics and trade. His publications have appeared in leading
journals including the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of
Economic Theory, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies and
others. His teaching at Lingnan where he arrived in January 2007 is
initially focusing on the Comparative Analysis of International
Financial Centers.
Associate Professor
Phone: (852) 26167175 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO317
Email: jvoon@Ln.edu.hk
Thomas Voon obtained his PhD from LaTrobe University (Australia) in
1990. Prior to joining Lingnan University in 1994, he taught at Griffith
University and the University of Ballarat. He has also worked as a
consultant to the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research
Organisation (CSIRO), Hong Kong Construction Association, and Kerry Group
(Hong Kong). Dr Voon specialises mainly in Cost Benefit Analysis and
Agricultural Economics. His publications appear in the Asian Economic
Journal, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Agricultural Economics (a European journal), Australian
Economic papers, Economic Analysis and Policy, Economics of Education
Review, International Employment Relations Review, Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of World Trade, Marine
Resource Economics and others. Dr Voon has also a book ''Economic Impacts
of Logistics Infrastructure Development: The Case of Hong Kong'' published
by the Nova Science Publishers (New York) in 2001. He has submitted his
recent completed papers (on the topics of Economic Growth, Regional
Integration, and Export Rivaly) for consideration for publications in
Applied Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of
Comparative Economics and World Development.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Policy Evaluation
and Cost Benefit Analysis, Origins and Developments of ASEAN, Housing,
Transportation and the Land Development, Contemporary Economic Issues,
Macroeconomics for Business, Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate
Macroeconomics.
Professor, Director of MIBF Programme and Director of BSocSc Programme
Phone: (852) 26167205 Fax: (852) 28917940
Office: SO217
Email: xdwei@Ln.edu.hk
Personal web-page: http://www.ln.edu.hk/econ/staff/xdwei
WEI Xiangdong is a Professor in the Department of Economics,
Lingnan University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department
of Commerce, University of Birmingham. He got his B.Sc. in Mathematics
from Zhongshan University, China, and his M.Soc.Sc. in Money, Banking and
Finance and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Birmingham, UK. His
research interests lie in the areas of the nature and the effects of
performance related payment schemes, the economics of workplace safety and
value of life, employee involvement and firm performance, and education
and manpower policies. He had
worked as a consultant for the UK Department of Employment, the Education
and Manpower Bureau in Hong Kong and Hong Kong Council of Social Services.
Xiangdong's recent work include: 1)
Analyzing workplace safety policies in Hong Kong with a simulation model
(with Steve Russell, Robert Sandy); 2) Education and the signaling
hypothesis: evidence from a highly competitive labor market (with John
Heywood); 3) Wage compensation for job-related illness; 4) Firm size wage
effect: new evidence from a matched employer-employee survey in the UK
(with Clive Belfield); 5) Unions and Plant Closure (with John Addison and
John Heywood). In his spare time, Xiangdong likes to swim and to play
squash and tennis. He also loves to walk in the country park and go to
cinemas and theatres.
Courses taught in Lingnan: Microeconomics for
Business, Education and Manpower Policy, The Hong Kong Economy and
Contemporary Economic Issues.
Dr ZHANG, Yifan 張軼凡
Assistant Professor
Phone: (852) 2616 7149
Office: SO215
Email: yifan.zhang@ln.edu.hk
Personal web-page:
Yifan Zhang is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Lingnan University. He received his B.A. (1994) and M.A. (1997) from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. (2005) in economics from University of Pittsburgh. Before joining Lingnan University, he worked as Post-Doctoral Associate and Lecturer at Yale University (2005-2006). Dr. Zhang’s research interests include China’s economy, industrial organization and applied microeconomics. His recent research focuses on applying industrial organization theory and econometrics to the analysis of China’s manufacturing sector.
Last updated on 15 January 2009.