Ka Lok Wong (Steve)
Macroeconomist · Associate Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
This is a short CV. For the full version, feel free to reach out via LinkedIn. Determinants of Sovereign Bond Issuance in Emerging Markets. With M. Manger & U. Panizza. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, forthcoming 2026. Africa's Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database. With Manger, Mihalyi, Panizza, Rescia & Trebesch. CEPR Discussion Paper 20747, 2025. Monetary Shocks and Fiscal Consequences: Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Tax Revenues in Emerging Markets. Single-authored research on how ERPT into fiscal sector in emerging markets. Software (teaching / working): Python, Stata, Matlab, Dynare, R, LaTeX Data platforms: Bloomberg, Refinitiv DataStream, ORBIS, S&P Capital IQ, assorted APIs Economist (Associate Economic Affairs Officer) United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Macroeconomics, Finance and Governance Division (MFGD) YPP programme, Economic Affairs Addis Ababa · Feb 2025 – present PhD Researcher Centre for Finance and Development, Geneva Graduate Institute (SNIS project on sovereign debt) Geneva · 2022 – 2024 Consultant / Research Intern International Labour Organization (ILO) Bangkok / Geneva · 2019 – 2022 PhD in International Economics Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) 2021 – 2025 · Summa cum laude Thesis: Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics MA in International Economics Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) 2020 – 2021 (fast-track to PhD) MSc in Economic History London School of Economics 2017 – 2018 · Merit BA in Culture Management City University of Hong Kong 2013 – 2017 · First Worked as research assistant to Ugo Panizza (2022); Philippe Bacchetta (2021–22); Richard Baldwin & Jonathan Dingle (2021).Publications & Working Papers
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