“Constructing Daily Hong Kong Online Consumer Price Index and Price Dynamics: The Role of E-commerce in the Post-pandemic Era” (Thesis Ch 1 & 2), funded by 

• The project is funded by the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, HKSAR Gov; 

• HK$ 560,050; Project #2022.A2.053.22B, 

• Our sincere thanks for the HKSAR Gov and Hong Kong TV Shopping Network Company Limited (HKTVS; HKTVmall), for their invaluable contribution to our study. 

• This project uses the big data from 9 e-commerice companies in Hong Kong to construct an inflation indicator, Online Price Index (OPI)

• Our Online Price Index (OPI) is now avaliable at  https://www.onlinepricetrend.com/

• Full Report

• I serve as the Co-Investigator alongside  Dr. Monique Shui-Ki WAN, who is the Principal Investigator.

"The Optimal Inflation Forecasting: A proposal to Striking a Balance between the Theory and the Practice" (Thesis Ch. 3), funded by 

• Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship 2020-21 

• HK$ 50,000

• 1 of the 3 awardees in HK

“Forecasting number of corner kicks taken in association football using compound Poisson distribution,”  (with Stan Yip, ,Y. H Zou, & K. F. Cedric Yiu), Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2024, Feb, 1-11, 1-11.

Journal Metrics:
Field: Operations Research and Management Science;
ABDC Ranking: A
H-Index: 120
Chartered ABS: 3
Scopus: 5.5
Impact factor 2022: 3.6

“Hong Kong’s New Keynesian Phillips Curve: Sticky information or sticky price?”  with Dr. Y.K. KWAN (2022). Pacific Economic Review, 27(1), 42-55.

Journal Metrics: Field: Economics; 

ABDC Ranking: B

 H-Index: 35

Chartered ABS: 2
Scopus: 1.7
Impact factor 2022: 1.7

• “E-commerce Inflation and Product Networks: Insights from a Daily Online Price Index,” With Prof. Monique S.K. WAN.

  • R & R at Electronic Commerce Research; Impact Factor 4.6; 2022 ABDC ranking: A; SSCI and Scopus Q1

• “Beyond Traditional Factors: Competitive Price Dispersion, Assortment Centrality, and Price Rigidity in Digital Markets,”  With Prof. Monique S.K. WAN. 

  • Under review at China Economic Review Impact Factor 6.7; 2022 ABDC ranking: A; SSCI and Scopus, SJR Q1

• “Exploring Inflation Expectations with Machine Learning: Aggregate Patterns, Heterogeneity, and Rationality Deviations,” With Prof. Monique S.K. WAN. 

  • Under review at Journal of International Money and Finance; Impact Factor 3.2; 2022 ABDC ranking: A; SSCI and Scopus, SJR Q1

• “Machine Learning Nowcasting and Forecaster Disagreement: Evidence from an International Financial Hub,”
  With Prof. Fred KWAN. 

  • Submit to International Review of Economics and Finance; 2022 ABDC ranking: A; SSCI and Scopus, SJR Q1

• “How does Financial Technology Development Contribute to China’s Regional Economic Growth? A Transmission Channel Approach,” With Prof. C.K. TSANG and K.L CHAN 

  • Submit to Advances in Decision Sciences; Impact Facto 3.79; 2022 ABDC ranking: A; SSCI and Scopus, SJR Q1

“Does Tourism Genuinely Help Reduce Poverty? A Panel Cointegration Analysis of Developing Countries in Latin America,” edited by C. TALESCO, C., S. K. NG, & D. IP (2016). Development: What Now? Past, Present and Future Challenges in International Development: The 4th International Postgraduate Conference (pp. 66-95). Hong Kong, China. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

• “Constructing Daily Hong Kong Online Consumer Price Index and Price Dynamics: The Role of E-commerce in the Pandemic Era,” with Dr. Monique S.K WAN (2023). Employers’ Luncheon, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, January 2023.

• “Constructing Daily Hong Kong Online Consumer Price Index and Price Dynamics: The Role of E-commerce in the Pandemic Era,” with Dr. Monique S.K WAN (2022). Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in China, June 2022.

• “New Keynesian Phillips Curve: Sticky Information or Sticky Price? A Comparative Study of Mainland China and Hong Kong,” with Dr. Y.K KWAN. (2019). Singapore Economic Review Conference (SERC) 2019, Singapore, August 2019.

• “Inflation Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Mainland China and Hong Kong,” with Dr. Y.K KWAN. (2019). IIDS Recent Developments in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Analysis (RGC Project #UGC/IIDS15/B02/18)1, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, July 2019.

• “Hong Kong’s New Keynesian Phillips Curve: Sticky Information or Sticky Price,” with Dr. Y.K KWAN (2019). The 10th Biennial Conference of Hong Kong Economic Association. Xiamen, China, December 2018.

• “Development: What Now? Past, Present and Future Challenges in International Development” The 4th International Postgraduate Conference, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, October 2014.