Charles Leung

About

Charles Ka Yui Leung is currently an associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the economics of education, labor economics, macroeconomics, and urban economics. He has published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Quantitative Economics, Real Estate Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics, among other journals. He also published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance and the Quarterly Bulletin of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan). He coedited the book Mortgage Market Worldwide (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008) and he edited the Handbook of Real Estate and Macroeconomics (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2022).

Leung has served as a guest editor of the Journal of Housing Economics, Pacific Economic Review, and Taiwan Economic Review. He has served on the editorial board of International Real Estate Review, Pacific Economic Review, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Taiwan Economic Review. He has also served as the vice president of the Chinese Economic Association in North America and on the Board of Directors of the Asian Real Estate Society, Global Chinese Real Estate Congress. He has served as a member of various committees for conferences and workshops. He is also a member of the Council of Advisors, Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research.

He has held academic appointments at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has previously visited Osaka University, the University of California–Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship (research) in 2004–5, was Post-Doctoral Honoree of the Weimer School of Advanced Studies of Real Estate and Land Economics in 2008, and has earned awards from real estate conferences.