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We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our students who received the Dean’s List Award for Fall 2020-21. The Dean’s List recognizes students’ outstanding attainment in fall or spring term.

Wishing you a prosperous Year of the Ox.

On school closures in Hong Kong over Covid-19  

And the winner goes to...  

Grand Finale will take place on February 6th, 2021  

Effective January 2021, Professor Tao Zhu becomes the new MSc (Econ) Academic Director. Graduating with a PhD in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2002, Prof. Zhu joined Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the same year. He then joined HKUST as an Associate Professor of Economics in 2009. Prof. Zhu’s research fields include Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. Find out more about Prof. Zh

On September 23, 2020, Prof. Kohei Kawaguchi of the Department of Economics attended a morning conference call at the Cabinet Office of Japan to advise Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimura, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, who is in charge of Japan's coronavirus response among other duties, on the business environment in light of the COVID-19 shocks in Japan. Prof. Kawaguchi conducted a series of surveys of small businesses in Japan about their response to the pandemic and, with his co-authors, wrote a paper titled "Small Business under the COVID-19 Crisis: Expected Short- and Medium-Run Effects of Anti-Contagion and Economic Policies". The talk presented estimates of the damage to small businesses of the emergency state declaration and the effectiveness of subsidies on firm survival. In the call, Kohei stressed the importance of real-time data analysis and urged the government to establish an organization that can systematically collect, monitor, and analyze data to support evidence-based policy making. You can read the paper here:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3634544 Photo by Thor Alvis on Unsplash Find out more about Prof. Kohei Kawaguchi

with Prof. Siu Fai Leung on the topic "Money is Evil".