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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Finance & Economics Readings
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers from Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, 2017
Editors: Lee-Ming Tan, Evan Lau Poh Hock, Chor Foon Tang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8147-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8146-0Published: 06 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4075-8Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8147-7Published: 05 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 175
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Economics, Business Finance, International Business, Development Economics, Business Law