Research Interests
Monetary Policy, Financial Economics, Economy of Hong Kong

Awarded Grant
A Monetary History of Hong Kong, 1871 - 2015 (with Byron Tsang), 2016/17 Competitive Research Funding Scheme for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector, Research Grants Council.

Publications

• Inclusions and Exclusions of Stocks in Cross-Border Investments: The Case of Stock Connect (with Byron Tsang), Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2023, 30, 701-727.
• Migration and Political Institution: Other Side of the Hill, Pacific Economic Review, 2021, 26(1), 54-69.
• The Magnet Effect of Circuit Breakers and Its Interactions (with Vivian Kong, Man Li), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020, 61, 101325. ​
• Monetary Policy Regimes and Growth Revisited: Evidence from a De Facto Classification (with Terence Chong), Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(4), 908-929. (working paper version)
• The Role of Bitcoin in the Monetary System: Its Current Development and the Possible Future, in Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy, edited by Fu-lai Yu and Diana Kwan, London and New York, Macmillan Palgrave, 2019, 359-412.
• Does the Right to Choose Matter in Defined Contribution Plans? (with Byron Tsang), Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35(2), 278-291.
  • Presented in Departmental Seminar, Department of Economics, HKBU on October 2015.
  • Mentioned in "改良強積金" and "應否讓強積金對沖遣散費長服金?"
• Does Monetary Policy Matter for Trade? (with Terence Chong), International Economics, 2016, 147, 107-125.
• Book Review on Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries by Andrew E. Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2016, 3(1), 88-90.
• Financial Crises and Government Regulations (with Gary Shiu), in International Economic Development: Leading Issues and Challenges, edited by Fu-lai Yu, Wai-kee Yuen and Diana Kwan, London: Routledge, 2014.
• Minimum Wage and Shareholder Wealth: Evidence from Hong Kong (with Terence Chong), Applied Economics Quarterly, 2013, 59(1), 85-91. 
• Well-Being and Economic Development: A Principal Components Analysis, International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2013, 1(2), 131-141.
• A Threshold Model for The Hong Kong Warrant Prices (with Terence Chong), Applied Financial Economics Letters, 2008, 4(5), 337 - 339.

Working Papers and Work In Progress

• A Tale of Two Regimes: Classifying and Revisiting the Monetary Policy Regimes (with Terence Chong), Working Paper No. 25, Institute of Global Economics and Finance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Money and Finance, (co-organized by Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance(IGEF), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Korean Money and Finance Association(KMFA), Hitotsubashi University Research Center for East Asia Policy and Japan Society of Monetary Economics(JSME)), Hong Kong, China, March 2018.​

Referee Service
Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of International Money and Finance