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Wong Wei Kang
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: ecswong Office: AS2 04-20
Tel: 6516 6016 Fax: 6775 2646
Degree: PhD, UC Berkeley
Homepage: courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ecswong/wongweikang.htm
CV: \people\CV\ecswong.pdf

Teaching Areas:
Behavioral Economics
Macroeconomics

Research Areas:
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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.

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