By Alvin Lee SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – Pareto efficiency, as defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), “occurs when resources are so allocated that ...

By Vince ChongSMU Office of Research – In a revealing piece of research coauthored by a Singapore Management University academic, public policies to ease urban heat in one of the largest first world ...

By Alvin Lee SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – While many people can name an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and describe what an ISP does, fewer people know the exchange of internet traffic ...

Above (from left): SMU Vice Provost (Research) Professor Steven Miller; Mr Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Professor John Hopcroft, IBM Professor of ...

By Stuart Pallister SMU Office of Research – Assessing the effectiveness of international aid across Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country and an archipelago of around 17,000 islands, is ...

The psychology professor and director of the SMU Behavioural Sciences Institute is well placed to explain why and how this matters – he has contributed significantly to public discourse on COVID-19 ...

SMU Office of Research – Asia’s love affair with all things luxury—bags, watches, perfumes and clothes—is no secret. According to some estimates, 37 percent of the global luxury market lies in the ...

How does financial transparency affect how CEO’s themselves are paid?Young Jun Cho and Hojun Seo investigate how the introduction of SFAS 131, requiring companies to report performance by business ...

SMU Office of Research – At the mention of finance our minds fill with images of corporate suits, glass towers or data flashing across screens. But we would do just as well to think of families ...

SMU Office of Research – The National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship supports outstanding, early-stage career researchers to lead impactful research in Singapore. It is a globally competitive ...

By Stuart Pallister SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – Was there effectively a ‘Chinese problem’ in Southeast Asia in the decades following the second world war, with millions of Chinese in the ...

­­SMU Office of Research – We shop a little differently nowadays. Groceries, clothes, luxury goods and all manner of products can be bought online with a few quick taps on a smartphone screen. These ...