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Prof. Kim Sau CHUNG

Professor
Economics Discipline
Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance
Director, Centre for Business Analytics and the Digital Economy

kschung@hkbu.edu.hk
3411 7076
WLB 532
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0113-1267
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Professor Chung is the director of the Centre for Business Analytics and the Digital Economy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He obtained his PhD at University of Wisconsin in 1999. Before joining HKBU, he taught at Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and was a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University, and a visiting associate professor at Tel Aviv University, Fudan University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

He was elected an economic theory fellow by the Society of the Advancement of Economic Theory, and has previously served as the president of the Chinese Economic Association in North America.

He was a member of the Public Policy Research Assessment Panel, an editor advisor of the Canadian Journal of Economics, and is currently an associate editor of the Pacific Economic Review.

  • Political economy
  • Digital economy

  • Digital economy

1999    PhD, University of Wisconsin

1994    MPhil, Chinese University of Hong Kong

1991    BScoSci, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Designing a CBDC to Empower the Oppressed

Chung, K. S.,20 Aug 2025,In:Asian Journal of Law and Economics.16,2,p. 193-20513 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Object-based unawareness: Theory and applications

Board, O. J. &Chung, K. S.,Dec 2022,In:Journal of Mechanism and Institutional Design.7,1,p. 1-4343 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

On the Information Contents of Indirect Citations

Chung, K. S., Liang, M. Y. & Lo, M.,Feb 2022,In:Canadian Journal of Economics.55,1,p. 156-17318 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Object-Based Unawareness: Axioms

Board, O. J. &Chung, K. S.,Dec 2021,In:Journal of Mechanism and Institutional Design.6,1,p. 1-3636 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Career Concerns, Beijing Style

Che, J.,Chung, K. S.& Qiao, X.,Nov 2021,In:International Economic Review.62,4,p. 1513-153523 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

The Peril of E-money: A New Monetarist Approach

Chung, K. S.& He, C.,2 Jul 2021.
Research output : Contribution to conference › Conference paper › peer-review

Selling to consumers who cannot detect small differences

Chung, K. S., Liu, E. M. & Lo, M.,Mar 2021,In:Journal of Economic Theory.192,39 p., 105186.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Efficient and Dominance Solvable Auctions and Interdependent Valuations

Chung, K.-S.& Ely, J. C.,Nov 2019,In:Journal of Mechanism and Institutional Design.4,1,p. 1-3838 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

The king can do no wrong: On the criminal immunity of leaders

Che, J.,Chung, K. S.& Qiao, X.,Feb 2019,In:Journal of Public Economics.170,p. 15-2612 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Large Traders, Asset Markets, and Currency Crises

Chung, K. S.& Wang, Y.,29 Jan 2019,SSRN,p. 1-41,41 p.
Research output : Working paper

Designing Property Rights over Land in Rural China

Cheng, Y. S.&Chung, K. S.,Nov 2018,In:Economic Journal.128,615,p. 2676-271035 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Decentralization and political career concerns

Che, J.,Chung, K. S.& Lu, Y. K.,Jan 2017,In:Journal of Public Economics.145,p. 201-21010 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Only Time Can Tell: Temporal Quality in Trade and Sourcing

Chung, K. S.& Lu, C. H.,9 Oct 2016,SSRN,p. 1-33,33 p.
Research output : Working paper

Loopholes

Chung, K. S.& Fortnow, L.,1 Sept 2016,In:Economic Journal.126,595,p. 1774-179724 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Non-homothetic preferences and IPRs protection

Chung, K. S.& Lu, C. H.,Jul 2014,In:Journal of Development Economics.109,p. 229-23911 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Persuasion and learning by countersignaling

Chung, K. S.& Eső, P.,Dec 2013,In:Economics Letters.121,3,p. 487-4915 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Too many mothers-in-law?

Cheng, Y. S.&Chung, K. S.,Nov 2013,In:Journal of Development Economics.105,p. 69-768 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

The good, the bad, and the civil society

Che, J.,Chung, K. S.& Qiao, X.,Oct 2013,In:Journal of Public Economics.106,p. 68-769 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Two models of unawareness: Comparing the object-based and the subjective-state-space approaches

Board, O. J.,Chung, K. S.& Schipper, B. C.,Apr 2011,In:Synthese.179,Suppl. 1,p. 13-3422 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

A non-differentiable approach to revenue equivalence

Chung, K. S.& Olszewski, W.,Dec 2007,In:Theoretical Economics.2,4,p. 469-48719 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Foundations of dominant-strategy mechanisms

Chung, K.-S.& Ely, J. C.,1 Apr 2007,In:Review of Economic Studies.74,2,p. 447-47630 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Implementation with near-complete information

Chung, K.-S.& Ely, J. C.,May 2003,In:Econometrica.71,3,p. 857-87115 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

On the existence of stable roommate matchings

Chung, K. S.,Nov 2000,In:Games and Economic Behavior.33,2,p. 206-23025 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Role models and arguments for affirmative action

Chung, K. S.,Jun 2000,In:American Economic Review.90,3,p. 640-6489 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

A Note on Matsushima's Regularity Condition

Chung, K. S.,Aug 1999,In:Journal of Economic Theory.87,2,p. 429-4335 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review