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Professor WHITTEN Gregory William

 

​BA, MA (Wisconsin-Milwaukee); MSc (Wisconsin-Madison); PhD (Pittsburgh)

  • Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Economics  
  • Major Coordinator, Department of Economics 
  • Associate Programme Director, Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons), Office of the Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor Gregory W. Whitten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Lingnan University. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in August 2013. He had been an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh before he joined the Department of Economics. His research interest includes currency unions, international trade, exchange rate regimes, macroeconomics, and applied econometrics.

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EDUCATION
  • University of Pittsburgh - PhD in Economics
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison - MSc in Economics
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - MA in Economics
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - BA in Economics, French Literature, International Studies (Summa cum laude)

 

EMPLOYMENT
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching, Economics Department, Lingnan University, 8/2018 - 
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Lingnan University, 8/2013 to 8/2018
  • Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, 1/2013 to 4/2013
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2008 to Spring 2011

  • Graduate Student Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1/2002 to 5/2003

     

FIELDS OF INTEREST
  • Currency unions, international trade, exchange rate regimes, macroeconomics, applied econometrics
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Recent Publications:

  1. WHITTEN,Gregory William, “How Do Political Relations Affect International Trade?”, edited by Julien Chaisse and Christián Rodrígues-Chiffelle, The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Dec 2023, p. 574-598
  2. WHITTEN,Gregory William, joint with LO Chu-ping,  "Shipment by suitcase: tourists in the gravity equation," under review by Tourism Economics.
  3. WHITTEN,Gregory William, joint with DAI Xiaoyi, Simon FAN and PANG Yu, “Do political relations affect international trade? Evidence from China's  twelve trading partners", Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2020, Vol 5.
  4. WHITTEN,Gregory William, joint with CHENG Kwok Hon Leonard and HUA Jingbo, “The national security argument for protection of domestic industries”,  Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2020, Vol 17.
  5. WHITTEN,Gregory William, "Price level co-movements within currency unions: an alternative integration metric," The World Economy, 2018, Vol 41.
  6. WHITTEN,Gregory William, joint with Carolyn Heinrich and Robert Meyer, "Supplemental Education Services Under No Child Left Behind: Who Signs Up, and What Do They Gain?", Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, June 2010.

Working Papers:

  1. WHITTEN,Gregory William, “Would a currency union by any other name be as integrated?”
  2. WHITTEN,Gregory William, "Price level co-movements within Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs)" https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/persons/gregory-william-whitten/publications/
  1. ECO2101     Introduction to Economics
  2. ECO4306     International Finance
  3. SSC4207     International Political Economy
  4. CLC9016     Contemporary Socio-Economic Issues
  5. CLE9015      Rethinking Global Issues
  6. CLE9017     The Value of Sport
  7. IBF622         Paying for the Real Economy
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