Department of Economics

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Pak Hung AU, 歐栢雄
- aupakhungusthk
- Department of Economics - Associate Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
20112025
Zhang CHEN, 陳章
- zhangchenusthk
- Department of Economics - Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
David Edward COOK, 戴懷谷
- davcookusthk
- Department of Economics - Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
19972026

21 Active
46 Finished

AI Safety, Liability, and Regulation
HUA, X. (PI)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
AI Safety, Liability, and Regulation
HUA, X. (PI)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
(Un-)Informed Communication Design
BLUME, A. (CoI), KIM, J. Y. (CoI) & LIM, W. Y. (PI)
1/10/25 → 30/09/27
Project: Research

Industrial policy in a new era: Government venture capital in the US–China trade war
Chen, Y. J., Gong, R. K. & Li, J., Jan 2026, In: Journal of Development Economics. 178, 103599.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
What, Whether and How? Unveiling Process Reward Models for Thinking with Images Reasoning
ZHOU, Y., WEN, P., CHEN, J., YIN, B., ZHU, H., JI, J., DAI, J., CHAN, C.-M. & HAN, S., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
Boosting Policy and Process Reward Models with Monte Carlo Tree Search in Open-Domain QA
CHAN, C.-M., XU, C., ZHU, J., JI, J., HONG, D., WEN, P., JIANG, C., YE, Z., YANG, Y., XUE, W., HAN, S. & GUO, Y., May 2025, (Accepted/In press) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Che, W., Nabende, J., Shutova, E. & Pilehvar, M. T. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 7433-7451 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review

Open Access

116 Editorial work
1 Keynote
1 Plenary

The Anatomy of Honesty
LIM, W. Y. (Invited speaker)
8 Jun 2025
Activity: Talk or presentation › Plenary
AI keeping pace with time
HAN, S. (Invited speaker)
8 May 2025
Activity: Talk or presentation › Keynote
International Studies of Economics (Journal)
LI, Y. (Associate Editor)
1 Oct 2024 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work

50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva — Bronze Medal: LexiHK, Legal AI Assistant
HAN, S. (Recipient), Apr 2025
Prize: Honorary Award
Best paper award at the 2025 Asian-Pacific Marketing Academy Conference
LIU, J. (Recipient), Kawaguchi, K. (Recipient) & Li, T. (Recipient), May 2025
Prize: Best Paper Award and Prize
Excellent Teaching Recognition
WU, Q. (Recipient), Dec 2025
Prize: Honorary Award

Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline
HAN, S. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy impacts, Social impacts

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A cross-country empirical study on electricity demand
Chiu, Y. H. (Author), 2004
Student thesis: Master's thesis
A decomposition of marriage premium : evidence from Hong Kong
CHENG, W. F. (Author), 2015
Student thesis: Master's thesis
Adverse selection, endogenous leverage and capital reallocation over the business cycles
DONG, D. (Author), 2019
Student thesis: Master's thesis