Department of Economics, HKBU

Welcoming Statements from Professor Wong Kar-yiu
Head of the Department

Welcome to the web site of the Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University.

As part of the School of Business, the Department serves to provide economic courses and conducts advanced research. The economic courses help train the students to acquire the techniques and experience to better understand and analyze economic issues, and the economic research conducted by the faculty members improves the frontier of the economic theory and offers policy recommendations to relevant governments and industries.

The Department has a strong emphasis on serving the community and encourages its faculty members to apply the economic theory and their research to investigate some of the pressing economic issues facing the economies of Hong Kong and China.

This site provides a lot of information about the department, including the programmes it offers, the staff list, its future and previous activities, and news. If you have questions about the Department and cannot find the answers from this site, please feel free to contact us.

If you are a current student or someone thinking of getting admitted into the Department, and if you would like to get more information about the courses and teaching programmes of the Department, please click here.

Wong Kar-yiu, Head and Chair Professor