Tan / Lau Poh Hock / Tang Finance & Economics Readings

Selected Papers from Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, 2017
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-10-8147-7
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 181 Seiten

Reihe: Economics and Finance

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 installment of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF), which is held annually in Singapore.  With a great number of submissions, it presents the latest research findings in economics and finance and discusses relevant issues in today's world. The book is a useful resource for readers who want access to economics, finance and business research focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tan, Lee-Ming

Lau Poh Hock, Evan

Tang, Chor Foon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Motivational Factors in International Non-Governmental Organizations in Vietnam.- Chapter 2. The Linked Movement of House Price and Stock Price with Shocks.- Chapter 3. Bayesian Estimation of Irregular Stochastic Volatility Model for Developed and Emerging Stock Market.- Chapter 4. Management of mobile financial services - review and way forward.- Chapter 5. Effectiveness of Selected Knowledge-Based Determinants in Macroeconomics Development of EU 28 Economies.- Chapter 6. Determinants of Firms’ Innovation Activities: A Case Study of German Knowledge-Intensive Industries.- Chapter 7. CVA for discretely monitored barrier option under stochastic jump model.- Chapter 8. Family Affair? - Insider Trading and Family Firms: Evidence from Thailand.- Chapter 9. Pattern of R&D expenditure in the Indian service sector: A firm level Analysis since 1999.- Chapter 10. The Role of Ownership Structure in Moderating the Effects of Corporate Financial Structure and Macroeconomic Conditionon Financial Performance in Nigeria.

Über Autor(innen)

Lee-Ming Tan is the founder of East Asia Research and holds a Masters in Applied Finance from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the National University of Singapore. He is currently the conference director at East Asia Research Pte. Ltd and oversees the academic conferences organized by the company. Using his good knowledge in academic publishing, he is the co-editor for numerous proceedings published by the company. He is deeply interested in how humans function and react with each other. An insight into how people’s minds think and how they work together is invaluable in just about every field. Outside of work, he enjoys outdoor activities and occasional computer games.

Evan Lau is a well-trained Universiti Putra Malaysia graduate with vast experience and research excellence covering the areas of International Economics with numerous applications of econometrics techniques. Recently, he ventured into socioeconomic discipline including Economics of Crime and Suicide. He joined Faculty of Economics and Business Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in 2005 soon after completing his Ph.D. in 2004. He servicing as Associate Professor since June 2014 and the Managing Editor of International Journal of Business and Society (IJBS), an internationally refereed journal indexed in SCOPUS bibliographic database, Emerging Sources of Citation Index (ESCI), Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC), ProQuest publisher, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Cabell’s Directories (Economics, Finance and Management) and EBSCO Host Publishing. He is the director of Centre of Excellence for Business, Economics and Finance Forecasting (BEFfore), UNIMAS which among other serves as a platform and reference point for business, economic and finance forecasting. He was the Visiting Scholar in Faculty of Economics in University of Cambridge from October 2013 – April 2014.

Chor Foon Tang is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Malaya. He has been actively participating in academic research since 2006 and his research mainly revolves around argumentations pertaining to development economics, macroeconomics and growth catalysts in areas such as tourism, energy, savings, etc. utilising both time series and panel data econometric approaches. His research has resulted in over 100 publications in major international peer-reviewed journals, chapter in research books, and discussion papers, including Tourism Management , Cornell Hospitality Quarterly , Current Issues in Tourism , Economics Letters , Empirical Economics , Energy Economics , Applied Energy , Energy Policy , and Energy Journal . Besides, he is also an Associate Editor of International Journal of Social Economics which is a prominent economic journal under the umbrella of Emerald Publishing Group Ltd.