Home Page of Kar-yiu Wong

Visit my mirror web site: http://www.karyiuwong.com/ for more information, including most of the papers presented in previous conferences I organized.

I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Washington, Director of the Research Center for International Economics (RCIE), and President of the Asia-Pacific Economic Association (APEA). Contact me!

Areas of Interest:

international trade, economic development and growth, and Asia studies
Best Paper of the Year:

"Firm Failure and Financial Crisis: The Experience of South Korea" in the Journal of Korean Economy in 2000.
Books:

International Trade in Goods and Factor Mobility, MIT Press, 1995 (second printing 1997), translated into Japanese in 1997.
Conferences:

more than thirty (30) conferences organized or co-organized since 1996
My Pictures:

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News

4th APEA Conference, Beijing, Dec 13-14, 2008

The fourth annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Association (APEA) will be held in Bejing, China on December 13-14, 2008, and will be hosted by the Central University of Finance and Economics. Economists are encouraged to submit papers for presentation and to organize sessions. Please click here for more information.

Trade, Globalization, and Poverty

A volume edited by Elias Dinopoulos, Pravin Krishna, Arvind Panagariya, and Kar-yiu Wong to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University. There are 12 papers included in the volume. Please click here for the table of contents.

Research and Publishing Training Program

The second annual training program will be held on the campus of the University of Washington, August 11 - 29, 2008. It is now open for application. For more information and application, please click here.

WTO and World Trade: Challenges in a New Era

This volume contains 12 articles from internationally renowned experts in the field of world trade. The contributions cover a variety of pressing topics related to trade theory, trade policy, WTO and their relationship. Click here for more details.

Outstanding Academic Title

War at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook, which contains a chapter on "World Trade" I wrote, has been selected "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2002 by Choice magazine.

"Arranged alphabetically, "AIDS" to "World trade," the 30 contributions in this encyclopedic analysis of the world's major challenges are written by specialists, many connected with universities or research institutions. Contributors to the ecology sections are listed simply as "freelance writer." Each topic is broadly explored, covering historical background and development, current research, policies and programs, regional summaries, and case studies. Each is accompanied by tables, maps, and statistics, and each ends with biographical sketches, a directory of organizations, sources for further research, and excerpts from official documents. Like all CQ's publications, this work is characterized by analytical excellence. Recommended for all reference collections. M. Strange University of Wisconsin--LaCrosse." Choice (December 1, 2002)