Faculty
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- BSSc (CUHK)
- PhD (Monash)
- Social status-seeking under imperfect market
- Social choice theory of paternalism
- Economics education
Dr. Woo teaches macroeconomics, public finance and welfare economics at CUHK. He also conducts researches, currently in three major areas (i) social status-seeking under imperfect market, (ii) social choice theory of paternalism, and (iii) economics education.
One of the aspects of teaching that he enjoys most is that he can present a proof of Arrow’s impossibility theorem in classroom to his students with a set of graphs that he constructed. He has also worked on a research project exploring how graphical methods can be used to improve presentation in, and help the understanding of, social choice theory.
Publications
- Woo, W. C. (2011). Status and welfare under monopolistic competition. Social Choice and Welfare, 36(2), 227-239.
- Woo, W. C. (2012). Inverted U-shaped conformism: An economic model of endogenous responses to the Joneses. The Journal of Socio-Economics, 41(1), 31-36.
- Woo, W. C. (2013). Social inefficiency of free entry with status effects. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 15(2), 229-248.
- Woo, W. C. (2016). Status goods and market powers. German Economic Review, 17(1): 26-35.
- Woo, W. C. (2016). Quantity versus variety: Which aspect does status-seeking promote?. International Review of Economics, 63(2), 93-106 (lead article).
- Woo, W. C. (2017). The Way We Teach Public Economics: A Rationalization Using the Theory of Third Best. Pacific Economic Review, 22(2), 229-248.
- Woo, W. C. (2018). Kaplow-Shavell welfarism without continuity. Mathematical Social Sciences, 96: 92-96.
Works in progress
- Graphical representations of proofs in social choice theory
- A social choice theory of paternalism
2025-2026:
1st Term
ECON1902: LEARNING ECONOMICS
ECON2021A: BASIC MACROECONOMICS
ECON3430A: PUBLIC FINANCE
2nd Term
ECON2011C: BASIC MICROECONOMICS
ECON3430B: PUBLIC FINANCE
ECON4430: WELFARE ECONOMICS
