Dr LEE Wai Choi (李煒才博士)
FRM
PhD (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
MSc (Finance) (CUHK)
MEcon (HKU)
PGDE (CUHK)
BBA (Applied Economics) (HKBU)
BRS (Pontifical Urbaniana University)

Senior Lecturer
Associate Programme Director of BBA-ECON Programme
Department of Economics and Finance

電話 : (852) 3963 5419
電郵 :
wclee@hsu.edu.hk


Dr LEE is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Finance in the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He received his B.B.A. in Applied Economics from Hong Kong Baptist University, M. Econ. from the University of Hong Kong, M.Sc. in Finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ph.D. in Finance from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Besides, he received professional training in computable general equilibrium (CGE) model in Purdue University, the USA, and Victoria University, Australia. Besides, he is a certified financial risk manager (FRM). He teaches various economics and finance courses at the undergraduate level and postgraduate level. His general research interests are to discover the principles behind puzzling economic and financial phenomena. His recent interest is to integrate Economics with Buddhist dogmas. He has published a few peer‐reviewed articles in Asian Economic Papers, Financial Innovation, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Singapore Economic Review, and one book on DSE Economics.

Intellectual Contributions (Publications, Conferences, Books, Book Chapters, etc.)Research and Teaching InterestsRefereed Publications
TopIntellectual Contributions (Publications, Conferences, Books, Book Chapters, etc.)
  • Fu, J., X. Yu, C.K. Koo, & W.C. Lee. 2020. The Adverse Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Indemnificatory Housing Market in China. Singapore Economic Review, forthcoming issue. (https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590820460017)
  • Lee, W.C., T.S. Cheong, Y. Wu, & J. Wu. 2019. The Impacts of Financial Development, Urbanization, and Globalization on Income Inequality: A Regression-based Decomposition Approach, Asian Economic Papers, 18:2, pp. 126-141. (https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00703)
  • Zhuang, D., W.C. Lee, T.S. Cheong, H. Wu, & B. Peng. 2019. Revisiting Income Inequality in Rural China: a Decomposition by Regression Approach, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 24:2, 452-467. (https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2019.1622294)
  • Lee, W.C. 2013. Essentials of DSE Economics 1: Microeconomics. Hong Kong: Hung Fung Book Co.
TopResearch and Teaching Interests
Research interests: Buddhist Economics
TopRefereed Publications
1. Lee, W.C., J. Shen, T.S. Cheong, & M. Wojewodzki. 2021. “Detecting Conflicts of Interest in Credit Rating Changes: A Distribution Dynamics Approach”. Financial Innovation, 7(1). (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854‐021‐00263‐z) 2. Fu, J., X. Yu, C.K. Koo, & W.C. Lee. 2021. “The Adverse Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Indemnificatory Housing Market in China”. Singapore Economic Review,66: 05, 1337 – 1353. (https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590820460017)