Publications

• Ong, K., 2018, Do Fiscal Spending News Shocks Generate Financial Spillovers?, Economics Letters, 164, 46-49. 

• Lee, K., K. Ong, K. Shields, 2020, Making Fiscal Adjustments Using Event Probability Forecasts in OECD Countries, The Economic Record Vol 96, Issue 314, 294 - 313. 

• Matthews, K., K. Ong, 2022, Is Inflation Caused by Deteriorating Inflation Expectations or Excessive Monetary Growth?, Economic Affairs Vol 42, Issue 2, 259-274. YouTube presentation

• Ong, K., K. Matthews, B. Wang, 2023, Growth versus Equity: The Effects of Centralised Fiscal Transfers on Chinese Provinces, Regional Studies. Cardiff-Fudan Working Paper 22/02 Revised draft replication_readme 

• Ong, K., K. Matthews, B. Wang, 2024, The Rising Tides That Lift the Boats: Growth through Heterogenous Convergence in Chinese Provinces, Open Economies Review. slides_conference slides_seminar SSRN 

• Ong, K., 2024, Do Countries Converge to Their Steady States at Different Rates? Open Economies Review. SSRN slides_wams slides_ppt 

Papers under Revision or Review 

• Adjusting toward Long-run Purchasing Power Parity SSRN replication_codes replication_rolling_codes slides_conference This paper finds evidence for relative PPP because we pool the long-run, allow two-way long-run causality and use long-span data (1870-2017).

Ongoing research

• Regional Income Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil, The European Union and China

• Who knows best? Do intergovernmental transfers reduce regional income inequality in China? (with K. Matthews and B. Wang)

• Identifying the Effects of Federal Budget on the Economy for the U.S. (with J.C. Morley, K.Shields and K. Lee)

Working Papers

• Measuring The Fiscal Multiplier When Plans Take Time to Implement (with K. Lee, J.C. Morley and K. Shields), CAMA Working Paper 13/2019.

• Net Foreign Assets Dynamics: The Persistence and Sources of Shocks to Net Foreign Assets in 12 EU Countries. MPRA

• The Effects of Mediums of Instruction on Educational- and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Malaysia (with R. Parinduri) MPRA Paper No. 87560.

Digital Finance, Fintech, and Shadow Banking — workshop, Ningbo, Sep 19-20 (Thurs and Fri), 2024

Bio

Kian is from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. He completed his undergraduate at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and his Masters and PhD in Economics at the Nottingham School of Economics, UK. He then spent a year as a research fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne. He worked for two years at Nottingham Malaysia before joining Nottingham Ningbo China in 2019. I am very grateful to the University of Nottingham for sponsoring my studies since undergraduate.