Ka-fu Wong
Teaching Fellow
School of Economics and Finance
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
 Phone: (852) 2857-8512
Fax: (852) 2548-1152
Email: kafuwong@econ.hku.hk
Teaching
 
 
Revelance of GPA in job applications
How government policy with good intention can create frustration and political instability?
IS ASSOCIATED WITH is not the same as CAUSES .....
 
Teaching in the Coming Academic Year
 
Fall 2010
ECON1001: Introduction to Microeconomics: A, B (with Professor Richard Wong)
 
Spring 2011
ECON1001: Introduction to Microeconomics: J, K (with Professor Alan Siu)
ECON6037: Economic Forecasting (Master of Economics)
 
Summer 2011

ECON1001 (web-based): Introduction to Microeconomics
 
Past Teaching
Introduction to Microeconomics
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Analysis of Economic Data / Statistics

International Economic Relations
International Finance
Competition, Regulation and Business Strategy
 
Some Teaching Resources
Teaching cases published by Asia Case Research Centre
(Thanks to the support of HIEBS and ACRC)
International Economics: a collection of resources
(Thanks to a grant of HK$ 1.8 million from the UGC, 1999-2002)
EconExperiments: Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Economics in Secondary Schools through Experiments
(Thanks to a grant of HK$ 512,200 from the UGC, 2001-2002)
Faculty Focus is a free e-newsletter created in 2003 by Magna Publications
Blogs written by Economists:
[http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/]
[http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/]
[http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/]
[http://blogsandwikis.bentley.edu/themoneyillusion/]
 
 
 
 
 
Research (data, program, etc.)
[Gauss codes] [Matlab codes]
 
 
Misc.
Faculty of Business and Economcs
Personal
 
Hiking activities
A difficult but worthy hiking trip at Hung Shek Mun (28 Oct. 2005)
An adventurous hiking trip at Ma On Shan (18 March 2006)
A memorable hike at Lantau Peak (16 June 2007)
A Spring hike from Pak Sin Leng (1 March 2008)
 
My favorites

Quotes

[Softwares] [http://www.tucows.com/ (Free and share wares)]
[Excel functions]
[Book price check] [Data Service & Information web shop] [Freeload Press, Inc.]

[Ideas Worth Spreading: Hans Rosling]

[Setting digital watch]

[Transcribe Chinese text to pinyin]

[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]

[Book: What the best college teachers do by Ken Bain]

JEL classification

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bus routes in Central and Western District (Chinese)
[HKU campus map] [How to get to HKU]
[HKU Institute of Human Performance]
[HKU concert series]

[HK Weather] [RTHK on-line news]
 
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PhD Economics studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison