Research Articles

YEAR 2025

Faculty	Research Article
Li Jia	Drawing on AI’s power for economic research
Chang Pao-Li	Tracking the effects of trade stocks
Kwong Koon Shing	Why HDB lease buyback needs an overhaul - and how

YEAR 2024

Faculty	Research Article
Yuan Mei	Imposing cost-efficient trade sanctions
Chang Pao-Li	Balancing concessions, balancing trade
Ma Lin	Measuring road and rail infrastructure quality in China

YEAR 2023

Faculty	Research Article
Li Jia	Measuring financial asset risk using spot regressions
Takashi Kunimoto	Exploring ‘compellingness’ in mechanism design
Hu Zihan	Investigating unintended policy consequences: The competition conundrum

YEAR 2022

Faculty	Research Article
Shurojit Chatterji	Efficient resource allocation despite inaccurate forecasts
Aljoscha Janssen	Investigating the role of retail pharmacies in the US opioid epidemic
Goh Jing Rong	Ageing in place to retire with dignity
Li Jiangtao	Mechanism design – a commonly used framework for auctions, reverse auctions as well as governing behaviour

YEAR 2021

Faculty	Research Article
Tomoki Fujii	When electrification increases, fertility declines
Ho Kong Weng	What drives subjective well-being in Singapore’s youth?
Takashi Kunimoto	Using microeconomics to design a framework for institutions

YEAR 2020

Faculty	Research Article
Yu Jun and Xie Tian	The best of both worlds
Li Jing	Eyeballing the clustering effect in China
Chang Pao-Li	Singapore in the global value chains
Hoon Hian Teck	Economics for real-world impact

YEAR 2019

Faculty	Research Article
Feature	Cities: Complex Ecosystems of Moving Parts
Zhang Yichong	Growing the Economist’s Toolkit
Xue Jingyi	The Science of Making Good Choices
Su Liangjun & Zhang Yichong	Making Sense of Highly Complex Data

YEAR 2018

Faculty	Research Article
Hsu Wen-Tai & Li Jing	Feeling a City’s Economic Pulse
Feature	The Eldercare Ecosystem: It takes a Village
Juliana Yu Sun	Inside the Black Box of Technology
Feature	Health and Wealth: a Shock to the System
Feature	Making Retirement a Gig for Life
Ismail Baydur	Disentangling the causes of Unemployment
Xu Jianhuan	The Importance of being Efficient

YEAR 2017

Faculty	Research Article
Feature	The Face of Future Employment
Wen-Tai Hsu	Room to Grow the Grid
Feature	Helping Seniors Unlock the Value of their Homes
Tomoki Fujii	Zooming in on Socioeconomic Issues
Feature	Financial Literacy for the Young and Young at Heart
Feature	The Economics of Ageing Well

YEAR 2016

Faculty	Research Article
Feature	Ageing isn't a Tsunami
Jin Sainan	Economics in the Real World

YEAR 2015

Faculty	Research Article
Kim Seonghoon	Safeguarding Tomorrow’s Health
Jing Li	Making Economics Relevant
Tse Yiu Kuen	The Race Against Time
Su Liangjun	Giving Economic Data a Voice
Chow Hwee Kwan	The Yuan Goes Global
Ho Kong Weng	Keeping the Singapore Dream Alive
Zhang Haiping	The Rubik's Cube of Economics
Hsu Wen-Tai	Letting Cities Develop Naturally

YEAR 2014

Faculty	Research Article
Hoon Hian Teck	Keeping the Economy Healthy
Tomoki Fujii	Socioeconomics: The Story Behind the Numbers
Shurojit Chatterji	Resource Allocation: Is There a Fair Way to Slice Up the Pie?
Christine Ho	Investigating the Economics of Childcare
Nicolas Jacquet	Studying the Flow of Jobs and Money

YEAR 2013

Faculty	Research Article
Phang Sock Yong	Housing Finance Systems that can Weather Storms
Huang Fali & Chang Pao-Li	The Intersection of Education and Trade
Yu Jun	A SARS-Like Early Warning System For Financial Crises