The Grand Finale - Hong Kong Economic Policy Challenge 2025
By Professor Albert Park, Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Roundtable meeting on Empowerment and Wellness of Migrant Domestic Workers: Explorations for Cross-sector Collaborations between Field & Academic Experts
[Update on 25 Aug]
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The Grand Finale - Hong Kong Economic Policy Challenge 2023
The Grand Finale of the Hong Kong Economic Policy Challenge 2023 in association with the HKUST Center of Economic Policy and Economics Department comes to a close on May 6th, 2023.
Read MoreMigrant domestic workers (MDWs) contribute to Hong Kong society both through their care work, and by enabling labour force p
Read MoreThe Asia Pacific Industrial Organization Conference (APIOC) 2023 will take place on December 15-17, 2023 by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Working Paper Series
Economic Policies vs. Identity Politics: The Rise of a Right-wing Nationalist Party in India
As in many other parts of the world, India has witnessed a surge in the popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a right wing nationalist party.
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CEP Small Research Grant Funding Results 2023
Funding Results of CEP Small Research Grants are out. 5 grants were awarded to researches conducted related to three programs, namely Development Economics Action Research (DEAR) Program, the Antitrust and Competition Policy group and the Globalization and Growth Program.
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Publications
Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations
This article investigates how transportation networks shape firms' geographic footprint by reducing monitoring costs of distant investments.
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Publications
Resource Allocation Among Competing Innovators
Many innovative products are designed to satisfy the demand of specific target consumers; thus, the innovators will inevitably compete with each other in the product market.
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Publications
Pandemic and containment policies in open economy
This paper analyzes the economic and epidemiological externalities of containment policies in an open-economy setting with firm entry and exit, SIR virus transmission, and a production network.
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Lunchtime Brown-bag Seminars in Fall 2025
The Center for Economic Policy is organizing lunchtime brown-bag seminars in Spring term at LSK6045. It will be open to all faculty and students who want to attend. In the one-hour seminar, there will be a presentation by CEP research affiliates, postdoctoral fellow or HKUST PhD students, followed by a Q&A session.
The schedule of the seminars in Fall term is as follows:
- 2025-09-30 ~ 2025-12-16
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- 2025-02-27 ~ 2025-05-29
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Prof. Albert F. Park
- 2024-03-19
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- 2023-12-15 ~ 2023-12-17
- 12:00am - 12:00am
- 2023-12-07 ~ 2023-12-08
- 9:00am - 6:00pm
- 2023-08-23 ~ 2023-08-24
- 12:00am - 12:00am
- 2023-03-20
- 2:00pm - 5:30pm
- 2023-03-01 ~ 2023-04-28
- 12:00am - 12:00am
- 2022-06-13
- 3:00pm - 5:15pm
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Working Paper Series
Economic Policies vs. Identity Politics: The Rise of a Right-wing Nationalist Party in India
By Pushkar Maitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Sandip Mitra
Working Paper Series
Search Algorithm, Repetitive Information, and Sales on Online Platforms
By Yu Xie
Publications
Why Micro-Credit May Leave Women Worse Off: Non-Cooperative Bargaining and the Marriage Game in South Asia
By Sujata Balasubramanian
Publications
Is the PDS Already a Cash Transfer? Rethinking India’s Food Subsidy Policies
By Sujata Balasubramanian
Publications
Pandemic and containment policies in open economy
By Juanyi Xu, Yousha Liang, Kang Shi, Junjie Tang
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