Kwok Tong Soo's Research Page

Published and forthcoming papers

"Team diversity and individual performance", (joint with Swarnodeep Homroy, University of Groningen), Manchester School 88: 507-530.

"International trade and the division of labour", Review of International Economics 26(2) (2018): 322-338.

"The gains from trade in intermediate goods: A Ricardo-Sraffa-Samuelson model", International Review of Economics and Finance 54 (2018): 244-261.

"Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods", The World Economy 41(2) (2018): 634-652.

"Innovation across cities", Journal of Regional Science 58(2) (2018): 295-314.

"Indivisibilities in the Ricardian model of trade", Economic Modelling 63 (2017): 311-317.

"Grades across universities over time", (joint with Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University), Manchester School 85(1) (2017): 106-131.

"The impact of MBA programme attributes on post-MBA salaries", (joint with Caroline Elliot, Lancaster University), Education Economics 24(4) (2016): 427-443.

"Intra-industry trade: A Krugman-Ricardo model and data", Economica 83(330) (2016): 338-355.

"Zipf, Gibrat and Geography: Evidence from China, India and Brazil", Papers in Regional Science 93(1) (2014): 159-181.

"The gains from external scale economies and comparative advantage", Economics Bulletin 34(1) (2014): 84-88.

"The international market for MBA qualifications: The relationship between tuition fees and applications" (joint with Caroline Elliott, Lancaster), Economics of Education Review 34 (2013): 162-174.

"Does anyone use information from university rankings?", Education Economics 21(2) (2013): 176-190.

"The size and growth of state populations in the United States", Economics Bulletin 32(3) (2012): 1238-1249.

"The gains from trade revisited" International Review of Economics and Finance 20(2) (2011): 193-201.

"Some university students are more equal than others: Efficiency evidence from England" (joint with Ching-Fu Chen, National Cheng Kung University) Economics Bulletin 30(4) (2010): 2697-2708.

"Does price matter? Overseas students in UK higher education" (joint with Caroline Elliot, Lancaster) Economics of Education Review 29(4) (2010): 553-565.

"Relative endowments and the volume of trade" Journal of Economic Integration 24(4) (2009): 744-764.

"Can growth of a trading partner harm a country?" Journal of Economic Integration 23(1) (2008): 57-74.

"From License Raj to Market Forces: The Determinants of Industrial Structure in India After Reform", Economica 75(298) (2008): 222-243.

"Trade volume and country size in a Heckscher-Ohlin model" Economics Bulletin 6(1) (2008): 1-7.

"Cost structure and productivity growth of the Taiwanese international tourist hotels", joint with Ching-Fu Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), Tourism Management 28: 1400-1407 (2007).

"Endogenous economic policy and the structure of production: Theory and evidence", Scottish Journal of Political Economy 54(2): 220-253 (2007).

"Zipf's Law and urban growth in Malaysia", Urban Studies (2007) 44(1): 1-14.

"Zipf's Law for Cities: A Cross-Country Investigation", Regional Science and Urban Economics (2005) 35(3): 239-263.


Other publications

"Redistributive fiscal policies and regional economic disparities" (joint with Bankole Fred Olayele, Carleton University), Cogent Economics & Finance (2020) 8(1).

"Recent trends in graduate unemployment and higher education in China", Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations (2015) 1(3): 637-662.

"Exporter's perceptions to obstacles faced in the EU: Evidence from Indian textiles and leather goods firms" (joint with Sangeeta Khorana, Aberystwyth University), International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management 7(2): 261-277.

"Services trade in China and India", International Journal of China Studies (2012) 3(1): 25-42.

Book review of "Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4" by T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss (eds.), Elsevier, Education Economics, 17(2) (2009): 284-285.

"Urban graduate unemployment and university reform in China", Facets of a Transforming China: Resource, Trade and Equity, ed. Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, Kuala Lumpur: Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, (2008): 133-148.

"China’s trade patterns: All about comparative advantage?" in Emerging Trading Nation in an Integrating World, eds. Evelyn Devadason and Kok-Kheng Yeoh, Kuala Lumpur: Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya (2007): 67-80.

"New debates over service outsourcing to China and India", Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies (2006) 42(1/2): 63-72.


Working papers

"The direct and indirect effects of city size, trade openness and exchange rates on prices and incomes across cities", February 2020.

"Multinationals do not export jobs, and other related results", Lancaster University Economics Working Paper Series 2018 No. 18, September 2018.

"It's a jungle out there: International trade when bargaining power matters", Lancaster University Economics Working Paper Series 2017 No. 24, September 2017.

"Are hamburgers harmless? The Big Mac index in the twenty-first century", Lancaster University Economics Working Paper Series 2016 No. 14, July 2016.

"Product durability and trade volatility", (joint with Dimitra Petropoulou, London School of Economics), February 2012.


Work in progress

"Salience and the optimal amount of trade liberalisation".



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