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Cross-border linkages among national stock markets have been strengthening over time, aided by free capital flows and the advancement in information technology. The use of electronic trading, which reduces cost and increases the speed of international financial transactions, has helped to advance this trend. Additionally, the deregulation of equity markets and liberalisation of financial accounts...

Dr Tania Nagpaul Youth at-risk typically refers to those who may be seriously anti-social, homeless, who may have dropped out of school, taken to substance abuse or engaged in illegal activities. The factors that place these young people at risk in the first place, such as poverty, family dysfunction and disturbed neighbourhoods, are often not factored into the equation. Dr Tania Nagpaul and Ms Ch...

Senior Research Associate Stephen Hoskins CREA The issues facing a growing silver population are gaining ground. Singapore’s baby boomers are now exiting the workforce. Would those approaching retirement have enough resources to maintain their current standard of living? Would future policy changes in healthcare, housing and pension impact their retirement adequacy? Facing a rapidly ageing populat...

Professor Zhu Feida The global personal data economy is growing faster than anyone could have imagined. The current business model for data is broken – for individual users and businesses alike. On one hand, users don not have enough control over their own data, such as what data is collected and how the data is used. That challenges their privacy. Users are also not fairly rewarded for their data...

Professor Pearlie Koh and Professor Tan Hwee Hoon The law on Directors’ duties is an important part of corporate governance. It is therefore unsurprising that a large part of existing research focuses on understanding what the law requires and how it applies in different situations. Such research is however largely reactive. Taking a fresh perspective, SMU Associate Professor of Law Pearlie Koh an...

Professor Hannah Chang Crowdfunding is changing how entrepreneurs finance their innovation. As the number of crowdfunding platforms continues to rise, competition for investor attention also intensifies. What can entrepreneurs and communicators do to heighten attention and strengthen persuasion, in order to secure greater success for their crowdfunding campaign? Associate Professor of Marketing Ha...

As markets shift and technological breakthroughs disrupt business models, what is the ‘secret recipe’ of a company that makes it ‘a great place to work’? Against the backdrop of a hypercompetitive landscape, how are successful, productive and high-performing teams within an organisation created? Richard Smith, Deputy Dean for Programmes and Professor of Strategic Management at the SMU Lee Kong Chi...

Assistant Professor Kotaro Hara Crowd work or crowdsourcing, an emerging form of online contracting work, is growing. About 600,000 workers participate in the online gig economy annually and the number is growing rapidly. Crowdsourcing facilitates new ways of working. Its remote and asynchronous work style – unbounded by time and location – could enable people with disabilities and stay-at-home pa...

Assistant Professor Subhajit Datta Civilization, as we know today, runs largely on software. Software intensive systems underpin almost all aspects of our lives – serving our communication, transportation, healthcare, education, entertainment, and many other needs in myriad ways. The development of software as a large-scale industrial artefact has some distinct characteristics. These are accentuat...

Assistant Professor Tan Hwee Xian Many of us use Google Maps for our daily commute, especially when we are exploring new places. Through Google Maps, we can easily find routes that provide access via various means – such as driving, public transport and walking. However, persons with disabilities who travel around in wheelchairs might face difficulties finding barrier-free access paths for their f...

Associate Professor of Psychology Norman Li from SMU’s School of Social Sciences holds a PhD and Masters in Arts in Social Psychology from Arizona State University. He also has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Northwestern University. His research interests include mate preferences and mate value, evolutionary social psyc...

Associate Professor Pradeep Varakantham Effective and efficient safety and security systems are critical for the smooth functioning of urban environments. Given the widely reported attacks in several major cities of the world, augmented intelligent systems that can anticipate, detect and plug any gaps in incident prevention and response, are a need of the hour. A.I. researchers are pursuing techni...

Associate Professor Tomoki Fujii Over the last few decades, the overall health status of people around the world has significantly improved. What helps people to live longer than ever before? What other factors, besides income levels, play a part in determining health outcomes? Associate Professor of Economics Tomoki Fujii, who is also Associate Dean (Undergraduate Curriculum) at the SMU School of...

Cyber-attacks cost the global economy billions of dollars every year, and are of growing concern to businesses and governments around the world. One reason for the surge in cybersecurity violation events is the low cost of acquiring the necessary tools and programmes to commit cyber-attacks. Online hacker forums are among the most important platforms which enable communication among potential hack...

Associate Professor Manoj Thulasidas In the last couple of decades, we saw an ‘information revolution’. Lately, it has been changing the way we think of data. We already see the early ramifications of this evolution in the data landscape, in the form of highly personalised web portals and micro-targeted advertising. What does this mean for students? What kind of skill-sets will they be expected to...

Associate Professor Michael Ramsay Bashshur

Decades of research on organisational behaviour have shown that it is strongly influenced by the socio-economic environments in which firms operate. Little is known, however, about how organisations consider ‘time’. Taking a completely fresh approach, Assistant Professor of Finance LIANG Hao from the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business looked into how the language spoken in an organisation affec...

Assistant Professor Akshat Kumar

Assistant Professor Sterling Huang

Professor Melvyn Teo

The Public Cleanliness Satisfaction Survey was led by Professor Paulin Tay Straughan, Dean of Students and Professor of Sociology at the Singapore Management University to measure and track the level of public satisfaction with the state of public cleanliness in Singapore. In addition to the development of a Public Cleanliness Satisfaction Index, the Survey examines the public’s satisfaction with...

Crowdfunding, a disruptive force in the traditional finance sector, is changing how entrepreneurs finance their creative endeavours and bring products to market. It has allowed thousands of innovating entrepreneurs to raise money, build brand awareness, and join a broader conversation with large numbers of potential backers, all while still in the product development process. But does crowdfunding...

Associate Professor Jiang Jing The advent of social media has seen large volumes of information generated on social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook every day. Such information presents potentially useful data for governments and businesses; however, to analyse such unstructured digital data and gain meaningful insights from them is complex and difficult. Associate Professor Jiang Jing,...

Assistant Professor Helen Zhou Renewable energy sources – such as wind and solar power, have made it possible for us to generate electricity in more environmentally-friendly ways. With the substantial decline in the costs of renewable technologies in recent years, the renewable industry has reached a fundamentally new stage in its development. A growing number of countries are adopting policies to...

Associate Professor Paul Griffin The advent of financial technology, or fintech, has created new opportunities, business models, products and services. Fintech innovations have disrupted the financial industry, leading to novel ways of delivering financial services not only by traditional financial institutions but also by start-ups. One such interesting development is the emergence of smart contr...