Faculty of Business Administration

Preference of different individuals, the performance of prospects, and income inequality

Professor WONG, Wing Keung

Chair Professor of the Department of Finance

Asia University

Abstract

We will first discuss preference of assets for different individuals. We then discuss the performance of different prospects and its relationship with stochastic dominance. Thereafter, we will use stochastic dominance and other tests to measure income inequality for different countries/cities.

Date: 30 July 2019 (Tuesday)

Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm

Venue: E22-4069

Biography

Professor WONG, Wing Keung obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA with major in Business Statistics (Statistics and Finance) and obtained his Bachelor degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, with a major in Mathematics and a double minor in Economics and Statistics. Currently, he is a Chair Professor at the Department of Finance, Asia University. He was Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University and Deputy Director in at Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore.

Professor WONG appears in “Who’s Who in the World.” His Erdos Number is 3. He is ranked top 1% by Social Science Research Network and in the list of top Taiwan economists and Asian economists and top economists by RePEc. He has been serving international academies, Government, society and universities, providing consultancy to several Government departments and corporations, and giving lectures and seminars to several universities. For example, he has been serving as editor, guest leading editor, advisor, associate editor for some international journals, appointed as an advisor/member of various international associations/institutes, serving as referee for many journals/conferences, supervising solely or jointly several overseas graduate students, appointed as external reviewer and external examiner by other universities, and invited by many universities/institutions to present papers or conduct seminars. He also gets grants from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He has published 4 books and 2 forthcoming books and published more than two hundred papers.