Betty X. Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong Business School. Her research interests include urban economics, housing policy and real estate economics. Her research focuses on understanding the consequences of various housing and land use policies, ranging from affordable housing policies, land subsidies to zoning regulations. She also has a strand of research that focuses on more theoretical side of housing markets and agglomeration economies.
Dr. Wang has a PhD in Applied Economics at the Wharton School from UPenn and earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Washington University in St Louis. Prior to HKU, she worked as a Research Scholar at the New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
