WONG CHIN-YOONG

wongcy@utar.edu.my

 

Associate Professor,

Department of Economics,

Faculty of Business and Finance

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat

31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia

Tel: 05-4688888 ext 1035

Homepage: http://staff.utar.edu.my/wongcy/

Webpage at IDEAS: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pwo108.html           

At SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1445050

 

Complete C.V

Academic and administrative appointments (Selected)

 

 

Education

 

Thesis: Macroeconomics of Vertically Globalized Production

Project paper: Macroeconomic Implications of Return on Bank Reserves

Project paper: Understanding Malaysian Financial Crises in Minskian Framework

 

Working papers

1.       Prices vs. quantities: What’s new? A perspective of input-output DSGE model with directed technical change and uncertainty, (revised and resubmitted to Macroeconomic Dynamics)

2.       Tapering the U.S carbon emissions during good times: Evidence from nonlinear ARDL (under review)

3.       Do RMBI and capital account liberalization complement China’s industrial upgrading? A New Keynesian view (under review).

4.       What shape the spillovers of China’s industrial upgrading and renminbi internationalization to ASEAN? Lessons from a New Keynesian model of endogenous firm entry and invoicing currency.

5.       Policy uncertainty as aggregate demand or supply shocks to emerging economies? Role of global value chains and export pricing strategy.

 

Publications (Selected)

 

 

  1. Eng, Y.K., Wong, C.Y., Asymmetric growth effect of capital flows: Evidence and quantitative theory, Article in press, Economic System.

(Working paper version)

  1. Wong, C.Y., Eng, Y.K. (2015), Surviving asymmetry in capital flows and the business cycles: Role of prudential capital controls. Review of Development Economics 19(3), 545-563.

(Working paper version)

  1. Wong, C.Y., Eng, Y.K., Habibullah, M.S. (2014), Rising China, Anxious Asia? A Bayesian New Keynesian View, China Economic Review 28, 90-106.

(Working paper version)

  1. Wong, C.Y., Eng, Y.K. (2013), International business cycle comovement and vertical specialization reconsidered in multistage Bayesian DSGE model, International Review of Economics and Finance 26, 109-124.

(Working Paper version)

  1. Eng, Y.K., Wong, C.Y., Habibullah, M.S. (2012). Endogenous structural breaks and real exchange rates stationarity in Asia: empirics and theory, Journal of Korean Trade 16(3), 23-42.
  2. Wong, C.Y., Eng, Y.K., (2012). Asset price boom-bust as elastic money response to technological shock, Economics Letters 114(3), 292-295.
  3. Wong, C.Y., Eng, Y.K., (2012) Transmission of Japan’s shocks to Southeast Asia: can open-economy New Keynesian model account for the factsInternational Journal of Economics and Management 6(2), 417-445.
  4. Wong, C.Y., Eng, Y.K., (2010). Vertically globalized production structure in New Keynesian Phillips curve. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 21(2), 198-216.
  5. Eng, Y.K., Wong, C.Y., (2008). A short note on business cycles of underground output: are they asymmetric? Economics Bulletin 3(58), 1-10.

 

Opinion editorials & short writings

 

 

1.    This time is different, 1/9/2013

2.    中国梦,亚洲痛?” (English version: China’s gain, Asian pain?), 8/4/2013, 南洋商报 (Nanyang Siang Pao).

3.    “2012 财政预算案谜思” (The myth of Budget 2012), Part 1 (20/10/2011), Part 2 (21/10/2011), Part 3 (23/10/2011), 南洋商报 (Nanyang Siang Pao).

 

Grants and awards

 

Present

  1. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, RM73000 on “Making GST Works for and Accepted by All Malaysians: From Tax Design to Implementation”, 2015-2017.
  2. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, RM85348 on “Constructing a Malaysian Wellbeing Index as a Comprehensive Measurement for Economic Performance and Social Progress”, 2015-2017.
  3. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, RM57000 on “Firewall against Virulent Capital Flows: Institutional Design and Mechanism”, 2014-2015.
  4. MOSTI e-Science Fund, Ministry of Science, Technology and Information, Malaysia, RM98537 on “Investigating Pollution Haven Hypothesis in a Model of Production Fragmentation and Trade”, 2014-2016.

 

Past

  1. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, RM25000 on “Betting on the rise of China: beneficial or detrimental to Malaysia?”, 2011-2012.
  2. 13th ZEW Summer Workshop for Young Economist, Euro 1500.
  3. 12th International Convention of East Asian Economic Association traveling subsidies, 25000 Japanese yen.
  4. 11th International Convention of East Asian Economic Association traveling subsidies, USD300.
  5. The American University of Paris (AUP) Scholarship for 10th Annual Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Euro 800.
  6. The Best 22 Papers Award, 1st Asian Finance Association Doctoral Colloquium.

 

Other professional affiliations

 

Research Fellow, GLT Capital Advisor, Malaysia

Senior Associate, Anbound Research Centre, Malaysia Branch.

 

Updated : 3/1/2016