Wei-Kang Wong

RESEARCH FIELDS

• Behavioral Economics, Economic Growth & Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics

TEACHING FIELDS

• Macroeconomics, Economics and Psychology, Finance

Education

• PhD University of California, Berkeley (1996 — 2001)
• B.Soc.Sci. (1st Class Hon) National University of Singapore / NUS (1994 — 1995)
• B.A. National University of Singapore / NUS (1991 — 1994)

Companies

• Associate Professor (Educator Track) National University of Singapore (2011)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2001 — 2010)
• Senior Tutor National University of Singapore (1996 — 2001)
• Central Banking Officer MAS (1995 — 1995)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"How Good Are Trade and Telephone Traffic in Bridging Income Gaps and TFP Gaps?" 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.