| Name | Research Interests |
| Asst Prof Akshar Saxena | Health economics;
Economics of aging;
Non-communicable diseases and obesity;
Applied econometrics;
Impact evaluation;
Health sector reform and comparative health care systems
Pensions and retirement. |
| Dr Arvind Sainathan | Interfaces of Operations Management/Marketing
Pricing and Consumer Behaviour
Service Operations and Supply Chain Management |
| Asst Prof Bao Te | Experimental Economics, Behavioral Finance, Real Estate Economics |
| Asst Prof Bei Xiaohui | Computational economics, social networks analysis and general algorithm design. |
| Assoc Prof Bo An | Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, game theory, reinforcement learning, automated negotiation, resource allocation, and optimization |
| Asst Prof Byeong-Je An | Dynamic voluntary disclosure, Derivatives, Delegated asset management, Pension plans |
| Prof Chang Xin | Corporate Finance, Corporate Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibilities, Green Finance |
| Assoc Prof Chen Chien-Ming | Corporate social & environmental responsibility; operational strategies; organizational productivity |
| Asst Prof Chen Guojun | Risk management; Corporate Cash Savings and Investment; Macroeconomics and Finance; Corporate Finance Theory and Empirical Studies. |
| Asst Prof Chen Tao, Jonas | Corporate Finance, ESG, FinTech |
| Asst Prof Chen Xiaoping | International Trade, Political Economy, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics |
| Asst Prof Cheong Foong Soon | Corporate governance, Analyst forecast, Management guidance, Investor responses. |
| Assoc Prof Chia Wai Mun | Prof Chia's areas of interest include international macroeconomics and cost-benefit analysis. Her current researach work focuses on the effects of real and nominal shocks in a small open economy under different exchange rate regimes, research issues related to Asian economic integration and estimation of value of a statistical life. |
| Assoc Prof Christos Sakellariou | Associate Professor Chris Sakellariou conducts research in the area of Labor Economics. In particular, his area of expertiese is in the Economics of Education and the Economics of Gender. Currently his is doing reseach on the role of cognitive skills in the labor market and in particular the relationship between education and cognitive skills acquired in school vs. elsewhere. |
| Asst Prof Dawoon Kim | Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance |
| Assoc Prof Feng Qu | Econometrics, Chinese economy, Financial Markets, Machine Learning Applications in Economics and Finance |
| Assoc Prof Goh Kim Huat | Electronic Markets Strategy, Economic Value of Information Technology Investment, Behavioral Economics & Information Goods Pricing, Consumer behavior in information technology mediated environments |
| Assoc Prof Gooi Hoay Beng | Prof Gooi's areas of expertise are Energy Management Systems, Forecast & Scheduling Applications, and Network Applications. His current research focuses on Microgrid Energy Management Systems, Electricity Markets, Spinning Reserve, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources. |
| Asst Prof He Tai-Sen | Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics |
| Prof Hong Hai | Prof Hong has a wide range of research interests, including East Asian culture and management and Chinese medical theories. |
| Assoc Prof Huang Weihong | Dr. Huang has wide research interests ranging from microeconomics, industrial organization, financial economics, public economics to nonlinear economic dynamics. Recently, Dr Huang has devoted much time and effort to reexamine the economic behaviors from the perspective of ancient Chinese philosophy. In recent years, he has devoted his most effort in incorporating ancient philosophical wisdom to the analysis of the economic behaviors. |
| Prof Hwang Chuan Yang | Prof. Hwang's areas of expertise are investment and corporate finance. His current research works focus on information risk and distress risk. |
| Asst Prof Hyunsoo Doh | Financial Intermediaries, Corporate Finance, Macroeconomics, and Asset Pricing |
| Assoc Prof James Ang | His research has concentrated on how regions and countries can accelerate growth. It includes topics on innovative production, productivity trends, international diffusion of knowledge, human capital, quality of education, institutions, income inequality, financial development and liberalization, savings and investment, environmental pollution, and macroeconomic stability.
In particular, his research has focused on answering whether financial liberalization has an enhancing or retarding effect, which endogenous frameworks can best explain growth experiences of developing economies, and whether credit constraints, educational achievement and international knowledge spillovers play a role in ensuring sustained growth. His most recent research investigates how early historical development can have a persistent impact on shaping current economic performance for nations.
[Recent Publications]
• “Wheat Agriculture and Family Ties” (with Per Fredriksson) European Economic Review, accepted.
• “Statehood Experience, Legal Traditions and Climate Change Policies” (with Per Fredriksson) Economic Inquiry 55(3), 2017, pp. 1511-1537.
• “Finance-led Growth in the OECD since the 19th Century: How Does Financial Development Transmit to Growth?” (with J Madsen) Review of Economics & Statistics 98(3), 2016, pp. 552-572
• “Agricultural Transition and the Adoption of Primitive Technology” Economic Inquiry 53(4), 2015, pp. 1818–1838
• “What Drives the Historical Formation and Persistent Development of Territorial States?” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 117(4), 2015, pp. 1134–1175
• “What Drives Ideas Production across the World?” (with J Madsen) Macroeconomic Dynamics 19(1), 2015, pp. 79-115
• “Imitation versus Innovation in an Aging Society: International Evidence since 1870” (with J Madsen) Journal of Population Economics 28(2), 2015, pp. 299-327
• “Export Performance of the Asian Miracle Economies: The Role of Innovation and Product Variety” (with J Madsen & P Robertson) Canadian Journal of Economics 48(1), 2015, pp. 273-309
• “Innovation and Financial Liberalization” Journal of Banking & Finance 47, 2014, pp. 214-229
• “Quality-adjusted Human Capital and Productivity Growth” (with J Madsen & M Islam) Economic Inquiry 52(2), 2014, pp. 757-777
• “Financial Development and Barriers to the Cross-border Diffusion of Financial Innovation” (with S Kumar) Journal of Banking & Finance 39, 2014, pp. 43-56
• “Are Modern Financial Systems Shaped by State Antiquity?” Journal of Banking & Finance 37(11), 2013, pp. 4038-4058
• “Institutions and the Long-run Impact of Early Development” Journal of Development Economics 105, 2013, pp. 1-18 [Lead Article]
• “International R&D Spillovers and Productivity Trends in the Asian Miracle Economies” (with J Madsen) Economic Inquiry 51(2), 2013, pp. 1523-1541 |
| Asst Prof Jeff Clark | Jeff's research focuses on management accounting topics, especially relating to how incentives and performance feedback systems affect employee effort. |
| Assoc Prof Jonathan Tan | Behavioral Game Theory, in particular boundedly rational reasoning and social preferences in games, especially but non-exclusively in dynamic games.
Experimental Economics is my primary data collection method, which I also complement with questionnaire data from social psychological inventories or from the German Social Economic Panel (SOEP). I also use experimental methods to explore individual differences in personality or socio-cognitions and cultural (in particular religious and ethnic) as influences on strategic behavior in groups and society.
Health Economics, Public Economics, and Industrial Organization are some of the main areas to which I apply behavioral and experimental insight. My recent projects involve organ and blood donation, public project collaboration, socially responsible investment, future transport systems, legislative bargaining, and R&D races.
I am happy to consult on policy and practice, as well as supervise PhD students, on projects related to these research areas. Please feel free to contact me. |
| Assoc Prof Joseph Dennis Alba | Joseph's general areas of interest are in international macroeconomics. He is particularly interested in the determinants of exchange rates and the roles of monetary policy regimes in developing countries. He is current working on exchange rate regimes and foreign shocks, the roles of exchange rate regimes and capital control management in the international transmission of monetary policy shocks and central bank digital currencies and monetary policies. |
| Prof Kang Jun-Koo | Dr. Kang's research interests include corporate finance and international finance, particularly cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, capital raising, international portfolio allocation, and banking. |
| Asst Prof Kang Min Wook | Macro/Monetary Economics
Financial Economics
Public Finance |
| Assoc Prof Lam Siu Lee | Management, strategy and modelling for supply chains, shipping, ports and other related areas;
Development of integrated intelligent systems/ decision support systems;
Innovation, including data analytics, block chain;
Port competition and cooperation;
Energy;
Sustainable development;
Risk management;
Logistics and Supply chain management;
Econometrics;
Maritime and port policy;
Trade and maritime developments, especially for Asia, including Belt and Road Initiative |
| Dr Leon Chuen Hwa | Dr. Leon current research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, financial modeling, investment, portfolio and risk management. |
| Asst Prof Leong Kaiwen | Under review
Leong, K., Li H., Xu Haibo. "Economics of Criminal Organizations: Evidence from a Drug-Selling Gang in Singapore."
Chiba, S, Leong, K. “Cheap Talk with Outside Options.”
Working Papers
Leong, K., Li H., Xu Haibo. "Policing Loan Sharks: Evidence from the Singapore Unlicensed Money Lending Markets."
Leong, K., Xu, Haibo. “Cheap Talk with Outside Options: An experimental Analysis.”
Leong, K., Xu Haibo. “Coase Theorem’s Breakdown: An Experimental Analysis.”
Leong, K., Li, H. “Economics of Rumors: A Field experiment on Collective Delusions in Organizations.” |
| Assoc Prof Li Zhi-Feng, Michael | His primary areas of research are in operations research and transport economics. He is currently undertaking projects in revenue management and network congestion pricing. |
| Prof Liow Chin Yong, Joseph | My research interests are varied. I have worked extensively on Muslim social and political movements in Southeast Asia, as well as religion, nationalism and political violence in the region. More recently, I have taken a keen interest in broader issues of the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Asia-Pacific region, focusing primarily on Sino-US relations and the implications of its twists and turns for the wider region. |
| Dr Natasha Bhatia | Dr Bhatia's research interests are centered around understanding the interactions between environmental economics and the marine environment. Through the identification and valuation of ecosystem services, policy and management decisions can be made in a way which promotes the sustainable use of the environment, something which impacts us all. Specific projects have previously included socio-economic valuation of Special Areas of Conservation along the east coast of England; Non-market modelling of the changing value of coastal ecosystem services in the wake of the 2013 UK storm surge; the FP7 project ‘VECTORS’ which investigated the drivers, pressures and vectors of change in marine life and its impact on marine economic sectors; and the EU project ‘DEVOTES’ which aimed to develop innovative tools for understanding marine biodiversity and the assessment of good environmental status, as well as creating conceptual models for the effects these pressures have on society. |
| Assoc Prof Pradumna Bickram Rana | Asian economic development and integration
Asian financial crisis
Business cycle synchronization
Early warning systems of currency and banking crisis
Financial globalization and capital flows
Policy reforms in transition economies
Urbanization and urban poverty |
| Prof Quah Teong Ewe, Euston | Professor Euston Quah's area of expertise are Environmental Economics, Resource Allocation and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Law and Economics and Household Economics. |
| Prof Robert Kennedy | My research and publications span several interrelated areas. They broadly focus on business and policy issues in developing countries. The work spans traditional academic outlets (primarily economics and strategy journals, several books and book chapters, funded research by governments and development agencies, and many teaching case studies and technical notes). The broad areas of work include:
1. Applying Industrial Organization frameworks to business and policy issues and transition and emerging economies. Most work was on Central and Eastern European transition economies and published in applied economics and strategy journals. Later work applied these issues to developing countries.
2. Offshoring and the globalization of services. This work focuses on the changing nature of globalization (from natural resources and manufactured goods to trade in services). There have been several book chapters and articles, and a well received book The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity.
3. Economic development policy, particularly Base of the Pyramid Markets. Several book chapters, as well as funded studies for leading development organizations such as the World Bank, the IFC, USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
4. The Role of Business Schools in economic development. Mostly applied work for development organizations such as USAID, the World Bank, and Rockefeller Foundation. I am currently the Chair of the Global Business School Network.
5. International Business education. I have written more than 100 teaching case studies and technical notes that are used around the world. Founded a case center at Michigan Ross. Revised strategy and grew sales by more than 50% over four years as Dean at Ivey. Ongoing experimentation with new case formats and pedagogical methods. |
| Asst Prof Sadat Reza | Econometrics of social and spatial interaction; econometrics of duration data; digital technology in emerging markets |
| Prof Sam Park | High performance organizations in emerging markets
Emerging market multinationals
Growth strategies for multinational and local companies in emerging markets
Roles and responsibilities for multinational companies in emerging markets
Economic integration and firm growth in ASEAN countries |
| Assoc Prof Shinichi Kamiya | Reputation, catastrophe insurance, and corporate risk management |
| Dr Sng Hui Ying | Development economics, Singapore economy, Southeast Asian economies, Trinity Growth Theory. |
| Prof Tan Kong Yam | His research interests are in international trade and finance, economic and business trends in the Asia Pacific region and economic reforms in China. He has published five books and numerous articles in major international journals including World Bank Economic Review, American Economic Review, Long Range Planning, and Australian Journal of Management etc on economic and business issues in the Asia Pacific region. He served as board member at the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (1984-96) and the National Productivity Board (1989-90). He has also consulted for many organizations including Citigroup, IBM, ATT, BP, ABN-AMRO, People's Bank of China, EDB, Areva, Guangdong provincial government, Samsung, Mauritius Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mobil, Singapore Technology, Temasek Holdings, GIC etc.
陈教授的学术研究领域包括国际贸易与金融、亚太地区经济与贸易发展趋势，以及中国经济改革。他出版过12本有关亚太地区经济和商业研究的著作, 1984－1996年期间陈教授担任新加坡中央公积金董事，1989－1990年任国家生产力委员会委员；此外他还为多家公司或组织提供咨询，其中包括：淡马锡公司, 新加坡政府投资公司、花旗银行、IBM、BP石油公司、荷兰银行、宜家、中国银行、嘉德置地、三星公司、毛里求斯政府等 |
| Asst Prof Tan Teck Yong | Applied Microeconomic Theory; Industrial Organization; Organizational Economics;
Information Economics. |
| Asst Prof Tang Cheng Keat | My research interests include Urban and Housing Economics, Environmental Economics, Transportation Economics and Economics of Crime. In particular, I am interested in evaluating the effectiveness of spatial and regional policies in achieving its intended outcomes with focus on establishing casual inference. You can find out more from my personal webpage here: https://sites.google.com/view/tangchengkeat/home |
| Asst Prof Tang Yang | Growth and Development
Macroeconomics
Financial Economics
Urban, Real Estate Economics
Computational Economics |
| Assoc Prof Tiong Lee Kong, Robert | Areas of research interests:
1. catastrophe risk assessment and management
2. alternative risk transfer mechanisms and financing
3. catastrophe micro-insurance
4. sustainable development and systems,
5. impact of climate change, carbon finance and carbon emission reductions
6. integrated risk analysis |
| Assoc Prof Wang Qinan | His current research interests are focused in two areas: supply chain management and health care management. Specific research problems that are currently studied include (i) mechanisms and value of information sharing in coordinating decentralized supply chains, (ii) management of patient queues, (iii) (the development and application of) health utilities index systems, and (iv) issues such as quality control in manufacturing and health care settings. |
| Dr Wang Wei Siang | Econometrics
Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Financial Market |
| Asst Prof Wang Wenjie | Econometric Theory, Machine Learning, Applied Econometrics, Policy Evaluation, and Behavioral Economics. |
| Asst Prof Wang Xin | Market Microstructure, Financial Intermediation, Macro-Finance and FinTech |
| Assoc Prof Wu Guiying Laura | My current research centers on the effects of various distortions and frictions on firms' investment and financing behavior and their implications to economic development and resource allocation. Although such research questions have been interesting economists for a long time, the key challenge is to distinguish the distortions/frictions of our interest from the fundamentals that determine firms’ productivity or demand. The emphasis of my research is to design identification strategies in a structural econometric approach, which aims to estimate distortions/frictions and fundamentals simultaneously. It thus addresses the most challenging issues in using observational data—endogeneity and selection bias, and offers a quantitative economic laboratory for counterfactuals and welfare analyses.
I’m also genuinely interested in topics on Chinese economy, for example how industrialization, globalization and urbanization serve as the three growth engines for China, and how the local governments play a role in development under the regionally decentralized authoritarianism. |
| Asst Prof Yan Jubo | Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics |
| Asst Prof Yeo Xiong Wei, Jonathan | Currently he is focusing on two main research topics. The first is on social identity, in particular the process of social identity formation and their consequences. The second broadly relates to social/moral preferences and norms, in particular in how these influence economic outcomes in society and organisations. |
| Assoc Prof Yip Sau Leung | Research Interest
1. International Monetary Economics
2. Foreign direct investments
3. Applied Econometrics in Economics, Finance and Management Studies
4. Exchange rate systems and macroeconomic policies in China, Singapore and Hong Kong
Journal Papers
1. Tsang Eric W. K., Yip Paul S. L. and Toh M. H. 2008, The Impact of R&D on Value Added for Domestic and Foreign Firms in a Newly Industrialized Economy, International Business Review (United States), Vol. 53, No. 3.
2. Yip Paul S.L., Tan K.C., 2008, Impacts of Ageing Population on Monetary and Exchange Rate Management in Singapore, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), Vol. 53, No. 2.
3. Tsang Eric W.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2008, Competition, Agglomeration, and Performance in Beijing Hotels, The Service Industries Journal (United Kingdom), Vol. 29, No. 2.
4. Tsang Eric W.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2007, Economic Distance and Survival of Foreign Direct Investments, Academy of Management Journal (United States), 50(5), 1156-1168.
5. Yip Paul S.L., 2007, China's Exchange Rate System Reform, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 52( 3), 363-402.
6. Yip Paul S.L., Tsang Eric W.K., 2007, Interpreting Dummy Variables and Their Interaction Effects in Strategic Research, Strategic Organization (Canada), 5(1), 13-30.
7. Yip Paul S.L., 2007, Editorial Overview: Important Lessons from Some Major Exchange Rate and Monetary Experiences in Asia, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 52(3), 269-283.
8. Yip Paul S.L., Yao S.T., 2006, Removing Foreign Direct Investment's Exchange Rate Risk in Developing Economies, International Review of Economics and Finance (United States), 15(3), 294-315.
9. Tse Y.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2006, Exchange Rate Systems and Interest Rate Behavior: The Experience of Hong Kong and Singapore, International Review of Economics and Finance (United States), 15(2), 212-227.
10. Yip Paul S.L., 2005, On the Maintenance Costs and Exit Costs of the Peg in Hong Kong, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (United States), 8(3), 377-403.
11. Tse Y.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2003, The Impacts of Hong Kong's Currency Board Reforms on the Interbank Market, Journal of Banking and Finance (Netherlands), 27(12), 2273-2296.
12. Yip Paul S.L., 2003, A Restatement of Singapore's Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 48(2), 201-212.
13. Yip Paul S.L., Wang R.F., 2002, Is Price in Hong Kong That Flexible? Evidence from the Export Sector, Asian Economic Journal (Japan), 16(2), 193-208.
14. Yip Paul S.L., 2002, A Note on Singapore's Exchange Rate Policy: Empirical Foundations, Past Performance and Outlook, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 47(1), 173-182.
15. Yip Paul S.L., Wang R.F., 2001, On the Neutrality of Exchange Rate Policy in Singapore, ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), 18(2), 251-262.
16. Yip Paul S.L., 1999, The Speculative Attack in Hong Kong Amid the Asian Financial Crisis, Asian Pacific Journal of Finance (Singapore), 2(1), 79-92. [Extended from an anti-crisis proposal against the speculative attack and interest rate hike in Hong Kong in 1997-98.]
17. Driver, D., Yip Paul S.L., Dakhil, N., 1996, Large Company Capital Formation and Effects of Share Turbulence: Micro-data Evidence from the PIMS Data Base, Applied Economics (United Kingdom), 28(6), 641-651.
18. Yip Paul S.L., Yeo H.H., Tan T.M., Tan C.H., 1996, The Asian Consumer Durable Market: With Special Reference to China, ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), 12(3), 380-396.
Books
1. Yip Paul S. L., 2008, The Exchange Rate Systems and Policies in Asia, World Scientific.
2. Yip Paul S. L., 2005, The Exchange Rate Systems in Hong Kong and Singapore: Currency Board vs Monitoring Band, Prentice Hall. |
| Assoc Prof Yohanes Eko Riyanto | Currently, he is working on several research thrusts. They are the followings. The first is the experimental asset market and finance. Within this research thrust, he studies various topics ranging from the insider trading and its regulatory framework, the interplay between social networks, information acquisition and aggregation, and traders behaviors, the link between consumption smoothing and heterogeneous traders and its impact on asset prices, and many others.
The second is the design of organ transplant allocation from donors to recipients. Specifically, he studies how the donor allocation priority should be designed to incentivize individuals to enroll in the organ donation program; while taking into consideration the issue of blood compatibility between donated organs and the transplant recipients and the incentive scheme in the form of transferrable donation vouchers.
The third is social preferences in general; ranging from, among others, the mechanisms to enhance cooperation and coordination in social dilemma settings, cooperation and coordination in social networks where individuals belonging to social networks can endogenously decide with whom they want to form links with before engaging in the prisoner's dilemma or coordination game with their link partners, the incentive of buyers and sellers to engage in social responsibile acts in the market place, and the role of social identity in intra- and inter-group interaction.. |
| Assoc Prof Yougesh Khatri | •Global macroeconomics and finance
•Economic development and public policy
•Long-term asset management |
| Asst Prof Zeng Yachang | Multidisciplinary research, financial reporting quality, disclosure and transparency, organizational and personnel economics, and neuroeconomics |
| Assoc Prof Zhang Huai | Market anomalies, financial analysts, and corporate disclosures. |
| Asst Prof Zhu Qifei | Investment management, institutional investors, corporate finance |
| Asst Prof Zhu Wenjun | Systemic risks in finance and insurance; Commodity futures markets; Actuarial ratemaking in agricultural insurance; High dimensional modeling with copulas; Longevity risk management. |
