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Economics

Name	Research Interests
Asst Prof Arvind Sainathan	Supply Chain Management Interface of Operations Management/Marketing Healthcare Operations
Dr Cao Yong	(1) Reform and development of the Chinese economy; (2) The development of China's financial market; (3) Productivity efficiency and industrial structural change.
Asst Prof Chang Xin	Corproate Finance, Valuation
Asst Prof Chang Youngho	Economics of Global Warming and Climate Change; Economics of Renewable Resources; Energy Efficiency and Conservation of Energy; Efficiency and Equity in Electricity Market Deregulation; Economics of Energy Security; Energy and Economic Growth in China
Asst Prof Chen Ning	Algorithmic Game Theory and Computational Economics Algorithmic and Economic aspects of the Internet Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization
Assoc Prof Chew Seow Lung, Rosalind	Wages, wage systems and wage determination in Singapore Industrial relations in Singapore and other countries
Prof Chew Soon Beng	Wages, wage systems and wage determination in Singapore Industrial relations in Singapore and other countries
Asst 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.
Asst Prof Choy Keen Meng	Singapore economy and business cycles Time series analysis and forecasting Macroeconometric modelling
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.
Prof David Alexander Reisman	Economic thought, esp. Marshall,Galbraith and Schumpeter Health economics, esp. policy issues in South-East Asia Political economy, esp. policy studies (theoretical and applied)
Asst Prof Edith Elkind	Algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, algorithms and complexity
Asst Prof Feng Qu	Panel data econometrics, spatial econometrics and productivity analysis Chinese economy; labor economics.
Asst Prof Fu Haifeng	Game theory, Probability theory and its application to economics
Assoc Prof Fu Wei-Jen, Wayne	Media Economics, Regulation, and Policy Economics of Telecommunications and Information Industries Interactive and digital media markets
Asst Prof Goh Kim Huat	Value of IT in Financial Institutions, Strategic Analysis of Electronic Markets, Distribution Strategies of Information Goods, Online Auctions Behaviour.
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.
Assoc Prof Govinda Bol Shrestha	Power System Planning and Operation; Power Markets; Optimization and Uncertainty Techniques; Alternate Energy and Distributed Systems FACTS
Asst Prof Ho Kong Weng	Dr Ho had published in the areas of social mobility, international outsourcing, wage inequality, technopreneurship, and unemployment, including both theoretical investigations and empirical studies using Singapore data. His current research topics include intergenerational transmission of religious human capital, economic growth of a small open economy in a world of ideas, trade and indeterminacy, non-monotonic relationship between human capital and unemployment, and happiness studies. He is currently writing a paper on the educational aspiration and intergenerational mobility in Singapore, and another paper on inter-personal and intergenerational transmission of happiness. Together with other researchers, he is also wrting a paper on distance to frontier and the natural rate of unemployment, and working on a mutli-year evaluation of a work support program.
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.
Assoc Prof Joseph Dennis Alba	Joseph's general areas of interest are in international macroeconomics, international trade and development economics. He is particularly interested in the determinants of exchange rates and the roles of exchange rate regimes in developing countries. He has examined the role of expectations in exchange rate determination and the factors that affect real exchange rates in developing countries. He also examines the impact of different shocks on economy of small developing countries under various exchange rate regimes. His other area of interest is in the roles of exchange rates, relative wealth, banking crisis and corporate governance on foreign direct investment (FDI). He gets around the aggregation problems encountered by many researchers using aggregated data by using firm-level data. His research in this area answers why there are large fluctuations in FDI. In his work on FDI, he collaborates with Peiming Wang (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) and Donghyun Park (Asian Development Bank). Joseph has also started work on new economic geography, trade and foreign trade agreements (FTA) with Donghyun Park and Hur Jung (National University of Singapore, Singapore). In a recently concluded project, he and his collaborators use the theories in new economic geography to explain the patterns of trade. They are currently looking into the effect of multiple FTAs on trade.
Asst Prof Kampon Adireksombat	Public Finance, Poverty, Labor, Demography, and Applied Econometrics
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 Kim Young Han	Media attention and stock price Corporate governance and government regulation
Asst Prof Lam Siu Lee	Econometrics; Management, strategy and modelling for supply chains, shipping, ports and other related areas; Development of integrated intelligent systems/ decision support systems; Port competition and cooperation; Supply chain management; Maritime and port policy; Trade and maritime developments, especially for Asia.
Asst Prof Leon Chuen Hwa	Dr. Leon current research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, financial modeling, investment, portfolio and risk management.
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.
Assoc Prof Liu Yunhua	Dr. Liu Yunhua's research area covers international economic relations of Asian countries, Chinese economy, and urban economics. His articles are published in journals of Economic Development and Cultural Change, Applied Economics, Journal of Policy Modeling, China Economics Review, Global Economy Journal, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, and Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. He teaches the courses of principles of economics, international economics (undergraduate and graduate level), urban and transport economics.
Prof Mark Joseph Kroll	Dr. Kroll's research focuses primarily upon the impact various corporate governance mechanisms have on firm outcomes, such as the effectiveness of acquisitions made, and ultimately the impact governance mechanism have on firm performance. His work in the area of corporate governance includes work related to various boards of directors configurations and the characteristics of board members, executive rewards schemes designed to align executives' interests with those of shareholders, and the governance of young, entrepreneurial firms having recently gone public. Most of his work employs secondary data sources, and deals almost exclusively with publicly-traded firms. His most recent work focuses on the social position and standing of boards of directors members and the impact that standing has on the board members' willingness and ability to monitor and discipline senior management. Additionally, Dr. Kroll is working on projects related to corporate governance practices of publicly-held firms in the PRC.
Asst Prof Olaf Rieck	Telecommunications Strategy and Policy, E-Government
Assoc Prof Poh Eng Hin	Equity effects of tax reforms Tax/fiscal consciousness and perceptions Tax expenditure analysis
Prof Quah Teong Ewe, Euston	Professor Euston Quah's area of expertise are Environmental Economics, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Law and Economics and Household Economics.
Assoc Prof Russell Arthur Smith	Russell Arthur Smith and Joan Henderson, 2008, Integrated Beach Resorts, Informal Tourism Commerce and the 2004 Tsunami in International Journal of Tourism Research Vol. 10, No. 3, pp 271-282. Russell Arthur Smith, 2008, Joint International Hospitality Management Programs: The Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management, Singapore in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education Vol. 20, No. 1, pp 38-44. Russell Arthur Smith, 2008, Environmental Responsibility in the Spa Industry: a Business Perspective in Gerry Bodeker and Marc Cohen (eds.) Understanding the Global Spa Industry Spa Management, pp. 307-312. Oxford, UK: Butterworth Heinemann. Russell Arthur Smith, 2007, Anchoring Tourism to the Coast: Innovative Spatial and Community Strategies in Michael Luck (editor) Nautical Tourism Development: Concepts and Issues, Amsterdam: Wiley, pp. 25-36. Goodwin, Nigel; and Russell Arthur Smith, 2007, Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel: Aligning Development with Operation. Singapore, in Wee Beng Geok (ed.) Hospitality Industry in Asia ? Selected Case Studies. Singapore: The Asian Business Case Centre, pp. 117-125. Goodwin, Nigel; Elizabeth O'Neil and Russell Arthur Smith, 2007, Raffles International: Positioning the Acquired Swissotel Brand, in Wee Beng Geok (ed.) Hospitality Industry in Asia ? Selected Case Studies. Singapore: The Asian Business Case Centre, pp. 67-77.
Asst Prof Suman Banerjee	My research examines the implications of market microstructure for corporate behavior. For both research areas the implications of the evolution of asset prices are important, but the microstructure implications have been largely missing from the existing corporate finance literature. Such an omission is unimportant if corporate finance models work well in the sense of explaining the observed behavior of firms, but this is not the case. The proliferation of anomalies and the changing cast of factors needed to explain even partial firm behaviors like dividend payments, all suggest that success is not yet within our grasp. I found that the existing corporate finance literature ignores the central fact that market microstructure focuses on: prices of assets that they issue to raise investible funds evolve in markets. Markets have two important functions- liquidity and price discovery - and these functions are important for asset pricing, and hence, for the corporations that issue the assets. My research link these to concepts to our more basic constructs of firm behavior, and I will suggest that corporate finance models need to be recast in broader terms to incorporate the transactions costs of liquidity and the risks of price discovery. I found that information is not symmetric nor is equilibrium revealing. The symmetric information-based corporate finance models do not work because they assume that the underlying problems of liquidity and price discovery have been completely solved.
Assoc Prof Tan Khye Chong	Population and the economics and mortality aspects of aging. Happiness studies with reference to life goals and aspirations.
Assoc Prof Tan Kim Heng	His research interests are in the theoretical foundations of fiscal and monetary policies.
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.
Asst Prof Teo Gin Swee Ernie	Industrial Organisation: Network Externalities: In particular, Crowding Externalities, where an individual first experiences positive externalities, reaches a saturation point and negative (crowding) externalities sets in. (Think overcrowding in clubs.) Related topic: Herding behavior resulting in fads and trends. Also Networks and Spillovers. Pricing of Multiplayer Online Games: Examine the pricing strategies of Multiplayer online computer games. The industry is of interest as there are strong network externalities. Firms use pricing mechanisms such as two-part tariffs. Game Theory: Capital Budgeting: Applying the Colonel Blotto Game of resource allocation to that of capital budgeting in corporations with multiple markets. Public Economics: Integration of Nations: Exploring the integration (merging) decisions of nations in a game theoretical setting. Why some countries choose to integrate and some do not. Implications of integration such as labor mobility and industrial policy. Conglomeration of firms and spillovers. Industry Clusters. Political Economy (Spatial Voting): How voting systems affect outcomes. Voting mechanisms and efficiency.
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
Asst Prof Walter Edgar Theseira	RESEARCH INTERESTS Applied Microeconomics (Empirical) Public Economics Industrial Organization Labor Economics WORKING PAPERS “Competition to Default? Racial Discrimination in the Market for Online Peer-to-Peer Lending.” “A Matter of Trust: Explaining Worldwide Pension Conversions” (joint with Kent Smetters) Research supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration grant: #10-P-98363-1-05 through the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Retirement Research Consortium “Am I my Brother’s Firefighter? Social Capital and the Voluntary Provision of Local Public Goods.” CURRENT PROJECTS The Economics of the Voluntary Sector. 1: The Economic and Social Determinants of Altruistic Behaviors; 2: The Market, the Public Sector, and Altruism: Substitutes or Complements?
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.
Asst Prof Wang Wei Siang	Econometrics International Finance Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Asst Prof Wu Guiying Laura	My current research centres on structural estimation of the effects of uncertainty and financing constraints on firms' investment and financing behaviour, and their macroeconomic, finance and development implications.
Asst Prof Wu Shin-Yi	Dr. Wu's research interests include strategic pricing of information goods and services, telecommunications and efficient allocation of wireless network resources, economics of electronic markets and business, and strategic use of IT and management of IT/IS.
Assoc Prof Yao Shuntian	Game Theory, Mathematical Economics, Differential Equations, China's Economic Reforms.
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	His general research themes are Industrial Organization, Corporate Finance and Governance, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. These themes are a reflection of the evolution of his research interests over the years. Although they may look disparate at first, they do share a common thread, which is a partial equilibrium microeconomics approach. They all focus on how individuals and firms make allocation decisions and interact in markets. Currently he is working on several experimental and behavioral economics projects on among others; the role of institutions in shaping people's other regarding preferences, third party punishment game and social norms, the economics of charitable giving, delegation of authority in organizations.
Asst Prof Yoo Seung Han	My current research interest involves game-theoretic analysis of collusion and corruption, games with incomplete information and auctions.
Asst Prof Yothin Jinjarak	International Finance
Assoc Prof Zhang Huai	Valuation, earnings management and financial analysts.
Asst Prof Zhang Lei	Prof Lei Zhang's area of expertise is in empirical corporate finance. His current research works focus on mergers and acquisitions, capital structure, IPOs and financial intermediaries.
Asst Prof Zhou Jie	Life-cycle portfolio choice, pension plans and retirement savings, macroeconomic theory.

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