Wai-heng Loke
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China
Biography
Dr. Loke joins the School of Economics, UNNC in September 2011. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex, UK in 2006. Her PhD thesis was entitled ‘APEC Trade liberalisation: Open Regionalism, Non-binding Liberalisation and Unconditional MFN’. Prior to joining UNNC, she has lectured at the University of Malaya for 17 years during which she has taught and supervised students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Courses that she has lectured include Microeconomics, International Trade Theory and Economics of Regional Integration. Besides being actively involved in academic research, she has also experiences in other relevant areas such as being short-term consultant to the World Bank, Assistant Managing Editor for Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies and member of Private Sector Task Force for Free Trade Agreement of the Federation of Malaysia’s Manufacturers.
Research Interest
Trade, trade policy, trade costs, China’s Belt Road Initiatives/One Belt One Road (OBOR) Regional Integration Arrangements ASEAN economies, China, East Asia Using city, national, regional and world input-output tables for inter- and intra-industry linkages and forward/backward linkages analyses
Publications
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East Asia trade bloc: how likely and will it be liked by all? , paper presented at Korea and the World Economy XI Conference on ‘New Challenges for the Korea and the World Economy in the Era of Globalization and Polarization, at Seoul Women’s University, 13th – 14th July, 2012.
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On the way to East Asia FTA?, paper presented at Seminar in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, 21st Dec, 2012.
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China’s International bilateral trade costs with its trading partners: 2001-2014, paper presented at Korea and the World Economy XVI Conference, June 29-30, 2017, held at Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam, with H. XU.
