King Yoong Lim PH.D.

Associate Professor in Economics

Dr. King Yoong Lim (in short, "King") is an Associate Professor in Economics. Prior to joining IBSS, XJTLU in April 2022, King worked as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer with the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University between the April of year 2018 and 2022. He has also worked as a Teaching Associate at the Lancaster University Management School. King's primary research interest is in the area of Development Macroeconomics, Economics of Crime, Innovation Strategies (both Macro and Micro), and Energy Economics. To date, his publication includes articles in ABS3/ABDC-A (and above) journals, such as Research Policy, Energy Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics, BE Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Modelling, International Journal of Finance & Economics, and Scottish Journal of Political Economy.

King is also an active participant in the wider research and policy community. He currently serves as an Associate Editor with the journal, Economic Issues (ABS 1; ABDC-B), having recently stepped down as the Associate Editor-in-chief, a position he has held for over two years. He is also currently an active external assessor of REF 2028 macroeconomics research output for Swansea University, UK.

A three-time STC Consultant with the World Bank Group, King has previously contributed to Malaysia's Capital Market Masterplan 2, National Innovation Strategy (and its associated GLC Innovation Transformation Programme), and has served as the Lead Consultant in reviewing and re-developing the Kenya Revenue Authorities’ national tax revenue forecasting framework in year 2019.


  • PhD, University of Manchester, U.K. - 2017
  • MRes, University of Manchester, U.K. - 2017
  • BEc, Australian National University, AUS - 2008
  • PGCAP, Nottingham Trent University, U.K. - 2020


  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, 2018-2022
  • Teaching Associate, Lancaster University Management School, 2017-2018
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester, 2015-17 (part-time)
  • Senior Executive, Securities Commission Malaysia, 2009-2013
  • Associate, Khazanah Research & Investment Strategy (KRIS), Khazanah Nasional, 2011-2012 (secondment)
  • Management Associate, ECM Libra Investment Bank, 2008-2009
  • Consultant (STC), World Bank Group, Kenya Country Office, 2019 (contract)
  • Consultant (STC), World Bank Group, Kenya Country Office, 2018 (contract)
  • Consultant (STC), World Bank Group, Social & Econ Dev Group, 2011 (contract)


  • Development Macroeconomics
  • Economics of Crime
  • Energy & Climate Economics
  • Innovation
  • Macroeconomics of Banking & Finance


  • LIM, K.Y., 2024. Heterogeneous Environmental Consciousness, Carbon Permit Adoption, and Endogenous Growth: A Case of China. International Review of Economics and Finance, forthcoming. [ABS 2; ABDC - A; IF: 4.5]
  • DEKU, S.Y. and LIM, K.Y., 2024. Oil price effects on optimal extraction-exploration and offshore entities: An applied-theoretical and empirical investigation in oil-rich economies. Energy Economics, 129, 107263. [ABS 3; ABDC - A*]
  • PICKERING, R. and LIM, K.Y., 2024. Does different crime type matters in understanding the nexus between universal credit and crime? Evidence from England and Wales. Economic Issues, 28(2), forthcoming. [ABS 1; ABDC – B]
  • CHUKU, C., LANG, L. and LIM, K.Y. 2023. Public Debt, Chinese Loans and Optimal Exploration-Extraction in Africa. Energy Economics, 118, 106516 [ABS 3; ABDC – A*]
  • LIM, K.Y. and MORRIS, D., 2023. Business optimism and the innovation-profitability nexus: Introducing the COVID-19 adaptable capacity framework. Research Policy, 52(1), 104623 [ABS 4*; ABDC - A*]
  • LIM, K.Y. and MORRIS, D. 2023. Firm-level impact of the global financial crisis: Evidence on innovation from Latin America. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 28(4), pp. 3902-3917 [ABS 3; ABDC – B]
  • LIM, K.Y. and ZHANG, S., 2023. Optimal fiscal management in an economy with resource revenue-financed government linked companies. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 28(2), pp. 2202-2225. [ABS 3; ABDC – B]
  • LIM, K.Y. and MORRIS, D., 2022. Thresholds in natural resource rents and state owned enterprise profitability: Cross country evidence. Energy Economics, 106, 105779. [ABS 3; ABDC – A*]
  • ALPASLAN, B., LIM, K.Y. and SONG, Y., 2021. Growth and Welfare in Mixed Health System Financing with Physician Dual Practice in a Developing Economy: A Case of Indonesia. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 21(1), pp. 51-80. [formerly, Journal of Health Care Finance & Econs] [ABS 2; ABDC – B]
  • JIA, P. and LIM, K.Y., 2021. The stabilization role of police spending in a neo-Keynesian economy with credit market imperfections. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 68(1), pp. 103-125. [ABS 2; ABDC – A]
  • JIA, P. and LIM, K.Y., 2021. Tax Policy and Toxic Housing Bubbles in China. The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 21(1), pp. 151-183. [ABS 2; ABDC – A]
  • JIA, P., LIM, K.Y. and RAZA, A., 2020. Crime, different taxation, police spending and embodied human capital. The Manchester School, 88(5), pp. 664-698. [ABS 2; ABDC – B]
  • LIM, K.Y. and MORRIS, D., 2020. The economics of the illicit drugs-for-guns trade and growth. Economic Modelling, 91, pp. 218-232. [ABS 2; ABDC – A]
  • LIM, K.Y. and RAZA, A., 2020. Domestic industrial learning externalities of innovation and imitation: Informing industrial policy with Cross-country evidence. Economic Issues, 25(1), pp. 61-85. [ABS 1; ABDC – B]
  • LIM, K.Y., 2020. Equity market performance and public debt: An empirical investigation. New Zealand Economic Papers, 54(1), pp. 16-38. [ABS 1; ABDC – B]
  • LIM, K.Y., 2020. Assessing the double-edged sword of using imitation as a stepping stone to innovation: a case of Malaysia's K-Economy Puzzle. The Singapore Economic Review, 65(1), pp. 131-159. [ABDC – B; SNIP 0.44]
  • LIM, K.Y., 2019. Industrial transformation with heterogeneous labour and foreign experts. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23(8), pp. 3225-3266. [ABS 2; ABDC – A]
  • LIM, K.Y., 2019. Modelling the dynamics of corruption and unemployment with heterogeneous labour. Economic Modelling, 79(C), pp. 98-117. [ABS 2; ABDC – A]
  • AGÉNOR, P.-R. and LIM, K.Y., 2018. Unemployment, growth and welfare effects of labor market reforms. Journal of Macroeconomics, 58(C), pp. 19-38. [ABS 2; ABDC – A]


  • ZEUFACK, A.G, and LIM, K.Y. 2013. Can Malaysia Achieve Innovation-led Growth. Kuala Lumpur: Khazanah Nasional Berhad. [ISBN 978-967-11435-1-3]


  • • FEA external seminar speaker series, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo, Ningbo, China [Nov 1, 2023]
  • • 9th International Conference on The Chinese Economy, Virtual, China [Dec 17, 2022]
  • • Royal Economic Society 2022 Annual Conference, Virtual, UK [April 14-16, 2022]
  • • Royal Economic Society 2019 Annual Conference, Warwick, UK [April 15-17, 2019]
  • • Scottish Economic Society 2019 Annual Conference, Perth [April 7-9, 2019]
  • • Royal Economic Society 2018 Annual Conference, Sussex, UK [March 26-28, 2018]
  • • CSAE Conference 2018, Oxford, UK [March 18-20, 2018]
  • • European Economic Association (EEA-ESEM 2017) 2017 Congress, Lisbon [Aug 21-25, 2017]
  • • 66th Annual Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Nice [June 19-21, 2017]
  • • Scottish Economic Society 2017 Annual Conference, Perth [April 24-26, 2017]
  • • Royal Economic Society 2017 Annual Conference, Bristol [April 11-13, 2017]


  • Reviewers - Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Economics & Finance, Economic Modelling, Manchester School, Singapore Economic Review, Economic Issues
  • Associate Editor, Economic Issues (ABS 1; ABDC - B], currently active
  • REF2028 External Assessor for Macroeconomics, Swansea University, UK, currently active
  • Associate Editor-in-chief, Economic Issues (ABS 1; ABDC - B], Jan 2020-Feb 2022


  • ECO302 - Advanced Econometrics; ECO310 - Econometrics of Time Series


  • 2020 - Fellow, Advance HE, formerly Higher Education Academy UK


  • European Economic Association (EEA) Student Travel Grant, 2017
  • President’s Doctoral Scholar (PDS) Award, University of Manchester, 2017
  • Australia’s Commercial Representatives' & Agents' Association Prize, the ANU. 2007
King Yoong Lim