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Upcoming Event

The Centre of Economic Studies (CES) will be having the 3rd colloquium talk in 2013 given by Cik Siti Rohaya, on a paper entitled “DEA Efficiency Analysis: Cost, Revenue and Profit Efficiency of Islamic Banks In Malaysia”, co-authored with Pn.Juliana Abu Bakar and Ms. Thavamalar Ganapathy.

Below are the details of the presentation.

Presenter: Cik Siti Rohaya Mat Rahim,
Department of Economics, UTAR
Date: 11 April 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Venue: H121, Kampar Campus
CPD Hours: 1.5 CPD Hours

Staff and students are cordially invited to attend the colloquium. Please refer to event flyer

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The Centre for Economic Studies, UTAR will be organising a workshop on time-series volatility modelling in finance and economics using a family of GARCH models on 12-13/04/2013 (Friday and Saturday) in UTAR Perak campus. This two-day workshop emphasizes on both testing principles and practical use in empirical
investigation.

We welcome all academicians, researchers and post-graduate students come and join
us. Please refer to the event flyer for further information.

Previous Event

The Centre of Economic Studies (CES) will be having the second colloquium talk in 2013 given by Mr Wong Chin Yoong, on a paper entitled “Rising China, anxious Asia? A Bayesian New Keynesian view”.

Below are the details of the presentation.

Presenter: Mr Wong Chin Yoong,
Department of Economics, UTAR
Date: 1 March 2013 (Friday)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Venue: H112, Kampar Campus

Staff and students are cordially invited to attend the colloquium. Event Flyer

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The Centre of Economic Studies (CES) will be organising colloquium series. The first presentation in 2013 will be given by Mr Kelvin Wye, on a paper co-authored with Rahmah Ismail and Zulridah Mohd. Noor entitled: Decomposing Gender Occupational Differences: Is It Characteristics, Preferences or Hiring
Discrimination?

Below are the details of the presentation.

Presenter: Mr Kelvin Wye Chung Khain,
Department of Economics, UTAR
Date: 21 January 2013 (Monday)
Time: 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Venue: H112, Kampar Campus

Staff and students are cordially invited to attend the colloquium.  Event  Flyer

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The Centre of Economic Studies (CES) will be organising a seminar talk by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Teo Wing Leong, from School of Economics, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Here are the details:

Title: Deep Habits in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Teo Wing Leong
School of Economics,
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Date: 23 November 2012 (Friday)
Time: 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Venue: H121, Kampar Campus

All are cordially invited to attend the colloquium.  Event  Flyer

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In conjunction with UTAR's 10th anniversary celebration, The Centre of Economic Studies will be organising a public lecture by Professor Dr. Rajah Rasiah, Khazanah Nasional Chair of Regulatory Studies and Professor of Technology and Innovation Policy, Faculty of Economics and Administration University of Malaya on “Sticky Spots on Slippery Slopes: Technological Upgrading in the integrated circuit (IC) industry in Developing East Asia”. Following are the details

Speaker: Professor Dr. Rajah Rasiah,
Khazanah Nasional Chair of Regulatory Studies and Professor of Technology and Innovation Policy,
Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya
Date: 09 April 2012 (Monday)
Time: 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Venue: IDK8, Kampar Campus

Staff and students are welcomed to attend the talk. Flyer

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The Centre of Economic Studies will be organising a seminar talk by Dr T.K. Jayaraman, our International Collaborative Partner (ICP), UTAR Global Research Network on “Exchange Rate Pass-through in Fiji: 1982-2009, Results of a Preliminary Study”.

Date: 11 January 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Venue: H215, Kampar Campus

All are cordially invited to attend the seminar talk.  Event Flyer

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Centre for Economic Studies is organizing a research talk on strategies in raising Journal Publications of
Faculty by Professor Chew Soon Beng from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prof Chew currently serves as our external examiner for the programme Bachelor of Economics (Hons) Financial Economics.

The details are as follow.

Date: 21 December 2011 (Wednesday)
Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 pm
Venue: D203, Kampar Campus

Event Flyer

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Centre for Economic Studies are pleased to invited staff and members to attend
seminar talk by Professor Dr.Cheng Ming Yu,Professorial Chair (Mr & Mrs Chua Chai
Leng Professor of Economics), Faculty of Accountancy and Management, Universiti
Tunku Abdul Rahman on "Malaysia Moving towards Vision 2020: From NEP to NEM".

The details are as follow.

Date: 18 October 2011 (Tuesday)
Time: 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Venue: H113, Kampar Campus

Event Flyer

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The Centre of Economic Studies (CES) will be organising colloquium series. The first presentation will be given by Ms Tan Ai Lian, on a paper co-authored with Ms Lim Shiau Mooi, Ms Koong Seow Shin and Ms Koay Ying Yin entitled: Exchange Rate and Current Account: Are They Co-integrated Symmetrically or Asymmetrically?

Presenter: Ms Tan Ai Lian,
Department of Economics, UTAR
Discussant: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Choong Chee Keong
Date: 29 September 2011 (Thursday)
Time: 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm (preceded by light refreshment at 3:15 p.m)
Venue: H108, Kampar Campus

Event Flyer

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The Centre of Economic Studies will be organising a public lecture by Professor Dr. Tham Siew Yean, Principal Research Fellow, from Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on “International Trade in Malaysia: A Policy-Oriented Research Agenda”.

Speaker: Professor Dr. Tham Siew Yean
Principal Research Fellow
Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS),
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Date: 11 April 2011 (Monday)
Time: 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Venue: EDK3, Kampar Campus
Flyer and short CV of the speakers