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 Kam Ki Tang


John Asafu
Room: 652 Colin Clark Building, St Lucia
Phone: +61 7 3365 9796
Email: kk.tang%%uq.edu.au (Please replace %% with @)
   
   
Qualifications

BSci (Hons) (HKU); MEcon (ANU); PhD (ANU)

Profile

Lecturer at UQ from 2000 to present

Research associate of Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at ANU since 2005

Being awarded the Third Prize for 2004 Teaching Award, School of Economics, UQ

Best Paper Award for “Property Markets and Policies in an Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model”, National PhD Conference in Economics and Business, Canberra, 4-6 November, 1998
Teaching
Semester 1: ECON3200 - Monetary Economics
   
Semester 2: ECON6200 - Advanced Monetary Economics
   
Summer: Quantitative Skills Workshop
Research Areas Health Economics
Economic Development and Growth
International Economics and International Finance
Selected Publications
  • “Measuring Health Inequality with Realization of Potential Life Years (RePLY),” Health Economics (with Dennis Petrie and Prasada Rao, forthcoming)

  • “Avoidable Mortality Risks and Measurement of Wellbeing and Inequality”, Journal of Health Economics, 27(3): 624-641, 2008 (with Jackie Chin and Prasada Rao)

  • “Measuring health inequalities between genders and age groups with Realization of Potential Life Years (RePLY)” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 85(9): 681-687, 2007 (with Denise Petrie and Prasada Rao)

  • “Health, Education and Life-cycle Savings in an Endogenous Growth Model”, Economic Inquiry, 45(3): 615-630, 2007 (with Jie Zhang)

  •  “Human Capital Inequality and Kuznets Curve”, The Developing Economies, XLVI(1): 26-51, 2008 (with Audrey Lim)

  •  “Estimating Income Inequality in China using Grouped Data and the Generalized Beta Distribution”, Review of Income and Wealth 53(1): 127-147, 2007 (with Prasada Rao and Duangkamon Chotikapanich).

  • “Efficiency externalities from Trade and Alternative Forms of Foreign Investment in OECD Countries”, Journal of Applied Econometrics (with Krishna Iyer and Alicia Rambaldi, forthcoming)

  • “Share reform and the performance of China’s listed companies”, China Economic Review, 19(3): 489-501, 2008 (with Bing Bing Jiang and James Laurenceson)