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Dr. Michael C.M. LEUNG (梁志明博士)
Ph.D. Economics
Professional Consultant, School of Public Health and Primary
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Professional Consultant, Centre for Systems for Health
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| Biography |
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Dr. Michael C.M. Leung received his doctorate degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1996. His doctoral thesis studied the strategic behaviors between providers and consumers under the influence of the third party payers, who are modeled as competitive health insurance providers. Since he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he had taught undergraduate and graduate level courses covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, economics of social issues, managerial economics and health economics. He had publications in the Journal of Health Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics of the Household on topics covering investments in health, economic growth, human life expectancy, public policy and sex ratio formation.
Michael also serves in the FHB research office.
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| Research interests |
- Michael's research interests include topics on applied healthcare financing, economics of longevity, economic growth and new household economics, such as family’s decision in health investments in children.
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| Select Publications |
| "Pollution, taxation, and strategic behavior," Economic Letters 40, 251-255, 1992 |
| "Healthcare reform in Hong Kong: A discussion of the Harvard Report" Hong Kong Institution of Asian Pacific Studies, occasional paper No. 100, CUHK, 1999 |
| "An economic analysis of life expectancy by gender with application to the United States," Journal of Health Economics 23, 737-759, 2004, with J Zhang, JS Zhang |
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