About

Kar-yiu Wong received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1983. He has published many papers on international trade, economic growth, and related subjects. He has written a theory book on international trade and factor mobility, and edited a book on growth and trade. Professor Wong has organized about ten conferences and workshops on international trade, economic growth, and Asia in the past three years, including events focused on the Asian crisis, WTO, and world trade. His research includes topics such as globalization and poverty, challenges in world trade, and the Asian crisis. He has developed online resources related to the Asian crisis and WTO issues.

Research topics

• Economics
• International economics
• Geography
• International trade
• Business
• Microeconomics

Selected publications

• Restructuring and Redeveloping Final Fantasy:

  Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 2025-05-20

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• E-commerce and international trade

  2019-04-26 · 8 citations

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  This chapter analyses the effects of e-platforms on cross-border sales, including the impacts on foreign sellers offering products to local buyers and on foreign buyers purchasing products from local sellers. It examines how the establishment of e-platforms affects market prices and transaction volumes, and describes the effect of a new electronic platform on foreign trade in products. The chapter focuses on e-transactions and explores how they affect resource allocation, international trade, and employment. It also examines the main characteristics of e-commerce and discusses interactions between sellers and buyers with the aid of diagrams. The chapter investigates the effects of digitalization on online sales and explains the relationship between e-platforms and foreign trade more closely. It shows that digitalization may affect foreign sellers and foreign buyers differently. The chapter considers some special cases and issues that demonstrate some of the characteristics of e-commerce.

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• The “Belt and Road” Initiative and Economic Integration

  2017-01-01 · 4 citations

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• Foreign Trade of the Pacific-Rim Economies

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2014-01-21

  book1st authorCorresponding
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• External Economies of Scale and International Trade

  2013

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  • International trade
  • International economics
  • Economics
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• The Global Financial Crisis and China^|^rsquo;s Policy Response

  The International Economy · 2012-01-01

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• The Global Financial Crisis and China's Policy Response (Japan Society of International Economics The 60th Anniversary Symposium "New Phases of the Asian Economy : Three Years after the Global Financial Crisis")

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2011-01-01

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• Global Free Trade: Regionalism as a Building Block or a Stumbling Block?

  2010-01-01

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  This paper examines the roles of regionalism in the possible movement to global free trade (GFT). It argues that whether regionalism is a building block or is a stumbling block to reaching GFT depends on the technologies, preferences, endowments, and other characteristics of the countries concerned. In addition to illustrating this point, this paper derives the conditions for the building-block case or the stumbling-block case in a simple model of differentiated products and intraindustrial trade. Our results clarify some of confusion in the literature, and help us understand better possible roles of regionalism.

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• Introduction

  Routledge studies in the modern world economy · 2009-01-16

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• A decade of flow of funds in China (1995‚Äì2006)

  Routledge studies in the modern world economy · 2009-01-16

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Frequent coauthors

• Pei‐Cheng Liao

  National Taiwan University

  6 shared

• Günter Heiduk

  SGH Warsaw School of Economics

  6 shared

• Chong K. Yip

  National Tsing Hua University

  6 shared

• Murray C. Kemp

  5 shared

• Koji Shimomura

  Kobe University

  5 shared

• Leonard K. Cheng

  AbbVie (United States)

  4 shared

• Xiaokai Yang

  Precision Optics Corporation (United States)

  3 shared

• Neil Bruce

  University of Washington

  3 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Columbia University

  1983