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PROF. MADYA DR. LEE CHIN
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(Prof. Madya Dr.) LEE CHIN
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FIELD OF SUPERVISION
BUSINESS ECONOMICS / ECONOMICS
EDUCATION
PHD
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA, SERDANG, SELANGOR
Graduated : 2005
MASTER (ECONOMICS)
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA, SERDANG, SELANGOR
Graduated : 2000
BACELOR SAINS (AGRIBUSINESS)
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA, SERDANG, SELANGOR
Graduated : 1998
BOOK PUBLICATION
1. Business Research Methods
    ISPN: 978-967-13440-4-0
2. Navigating Globalization: Growth, Sustainability & Well-Being
    ISPN: 9786297840734
3. Monetary, Trade & Macroeconomic Performances of EAst Asian Economies
    ISPN: 978-967-344-023-8
JOURNAL PUBLICATION
1. Tests of different monetary aggregates for the monetary models of the exchange rate in five ASEAN countries
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
2. Purchasing Power Parity and Free Trade Area
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
3. The Determinants of Non-Tariff Barriers: The Role of WTO Membership
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
4. Pass-through Effect of Oil Price into Consumer Price: An Empirical Study
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
5. Outward FDI and home country employment
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
6. The Linkages of Asian and the US Stock Market
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
7. Testing the Efficacy of Information Transmission: Is Equity Style Index Better than Stock Market Index?
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
8. Consumption and Housing Wealth: A Malaysian Case that Demonstrates a Negative Relationship
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
9. Price Convergence and Market Integration: Evidence from Malaysia
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
10. Currency Linkages among ASEAN
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
11. Outward FDI and institutional factors: Malaysian experience
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
12. The Effects of Trade Openness on Malaysian Exchange Rate
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
13. IS THERE ANY REGIONAL PRICE DISPARITY IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA?
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
14. ASEAN-5+3 and US Stock Markets Interdependence Before, During and After Asian Financial Crisis
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
15. The Impact of Oil Prices on Soybeans Commodity Prices: Asymmetric Cointegration Evidence
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
16. Tests of the Different Variants of the Monetary Model in a Developing Economy: Malaysian Experience in the Pre- and Post-crisis Periods
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
17. Testing the validity of the monetary model for ASEAN with structural break
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
18. RM/USD Exchange Market Pressure and Monetary Policy in Malaysia
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
19. Is Malaysia Exchange Rate Misalignment before the 1997 Crisis?
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
20. Intranational Purchasing Power Parity: Evidence for Malaysia
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
21. On the Exchange Rates Behavior by PPP: A Test on Malaysian Ringgit and US Dollar
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
22. Financial Integration among ASEAN+3 Countries: Evidence from Exchange Rates Convergence
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
23. Oil Price, Exchange Rate and Disaggregate Consumer Prices: Causality, Impulse Response and Variance Decomposition
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
24. Non-Tariff Barriers and Their Effect on Export: Evidence from 5 ASEAN Countries
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
25. Asymmetric behavior of exchange rate pass-through in Thailand
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
26. The Impact of Financial Development, Oil Price on Economic Growth in African OPEC Members
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
27. The Impact of Oil Export and Food Production on Inflation in African OPEC Members
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
28. Do Integrated Economies Grow Faster? Evidence from Domestic Equity Holdings
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
29. Energy Consumption and Real GDP Nexus: A Malaysian Case Demonstrating the Importance of Trade Openness
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
30. Asymmetric Impacts of Oil Price on Inflation: An Empirical Study of African OPEC Member Countries
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
31. Stock Market Liberalization Impact on Sectoral Stock Market Return in Malaysia
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
32. The Impacts of Various Trade Arrangements on Malaysia's Bilateral Trade Costs
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
33. The Impact of Various Trade Arrangements on Malaysia Bilateral's Trade Costs
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
34. The role of government digitization in the labor market: Mechanisms, heterogeneity and moderators
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
35. Intelectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
36. Housing Prices in Peninsular Malaysia: Supported by Income, Foreign Inflow or Speculation?
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
37. Asymmetric Effects of Exchange Rates on Stock Prices in G7 Countries
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
38. Analysing the Effect of Portfolio Concentration Index and Stock Market Correlation
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
39. Oil Price Changes and Trade Openness in Nigeria: Linear and Nonlinear Approach
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
40. Microeconomic Impact of Remittances at the Household Level in a Remittance Receiving Country, Bangladesh
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
41. Role of Remittances on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
42. Remittances, Institutions and Financial Inclusion: New Evidence of Non-Linearity
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
43. The Nexus of Remittances, Institutional Quality and Financial Inclusion
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
44. House Prices and Bank Credit in China: Analysis of First- and Second-Tier Cities
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
45. Remittance Inflow and Economic Development: Interaction with Financial Inclusion and Human Capital
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
46. Asymmetric Impacts of Oil Price Shocks on Malaysian Economic Growth: Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
47. Asymmetric effects of corporate sustainability strategy on value creation among global automotive firms: A dynamic panel quantile regression approach
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
48. Impact of Competitiveness on Economic Growth and Income – Evidence from the Selected CIS Countries
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
49. Asymmetric Pass-though Effects of Oil Price on Economic Growth in Malaysia
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
50. Determinants of Renewable Energy Production: Do Intellectual Property Rights Matter?
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
51. How does government efficiency affect health outcomes? The empirical evidence from 156 countries
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
52. Increases in oil price or oil exports: Which one is more positive on trade balance for African OPEC member countries?
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
53. Is bank risk appetite relevant to bank default in times of Covid-19?
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
54. Migrant Remittances and Dutch Disease: Evidence from India
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
55. The Asymmetric Effect of Oil Price Fluctuation on Non-performing Loans in Kazakhstan: Evidence from the Ricardian Curse of the Resource Boom
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ESCI
56. Does market sentiment push up China’s housing prices? - An empirical study based on the data of 45 mainstream cities in China
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
57. Exploring the Development of Agricultural Trade between China and ASEAN under the RCEP: A SWOT Analysis
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ESCI
58. Currency Crises and Contagion Channels in Asian Economies
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
59. The necessity of social infrastructure for enhancing educational attainment: evidence from high remittance recipient LMICs
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
60. How Do Housing Prices Affect A City’s Innovation Capacity? The Case of China
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
61. The determinants of international reserves in developing countries
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ESCI
62. Measurement of Non-Use Value of Sand Lake Wetland Under CVM Method
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
63. Environmental quality, residents’ health, and economic growth in the Yellow River Basin
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
64. How does government efficiency affect carbon emission intensity? A comprehensive empirical study
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
65. Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: A Quantile Regression Approach
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
66. Does Trade Freedom Affect Exchange Rate Movement? A perspective of High-Technology Trade
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
67. The Impact of the Digital Economy on Urban House Prices: Comprehensive Explorations
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
68. Decomposing scale, technique and composition effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
69. Modelling the Interaction of Sustainable Variables in Yellow River Basin: A PVAR Approach
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
70. Unlocking growth: Investigating asymmetry in the financial inclusion-growth nexus in financially inclusive middle east economies
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
71. URBAN HOUSING PRICES AND CONSUMPTION STRUCTURE UPGRADING
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
72. Exploring the Trade-Environment Linkage: A Bibliometric Investigation of Trade Openness and Carbon Emissions
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
73. The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth in a Remittance Receiving Country
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
74. Assessing the Impact of Institutional Quality on the Relationship Between Education Expenditure and Service Sector Growth: Evidence from Quantile Regression Models
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
75. Energy security and carbon emissions: The role of economic freedom
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
76. Government digitalization: A catalyst for innovation across economies
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2005
Doctor of Philosophy (Economics)
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2013
Associate Professor
2008
Senior Lecturer
2006
Lecturer
PROJECT
2018
Renewable Energy and Economic Growth
2015
A New Approach for Measuring Malaysian Trade Costs: The Characteristics of Malaysia and Trading Partners’ Involved in Re-export Activities
2012
Structural Identification of Multiple Cointegrating Vectors: An Application to Monetary Exchange Rate Model
2011
Are There Really Differences in Consumer Prices across Cities in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak?
2008
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Trade Liberalization, Financial Liberalization and Economic Integration: Evidence From Malaysia and a Group of Countries
2007
Consumer Price Indices Convergence Among Malaysian Region
2006
An Econometric Appraisal of Single Currency Models on Asian Countries
PUBLICATION
2025
Does government digitization contribute to economic growth? Empirical evidence from 109 countries
2025
Energy security and carbon emissions: The role of economic freedom
2025
Government digitalization: A catalyst for innovation across economies
2025
Exploring the Trade-Environment Linkage: A Bibliometric Investigation of Trade Openness and Carbon Emissions
2025
Assessing the Impact of Institutional Quality on the Relationship Between Education Expenditure and Service Sector Growth: Evidence from Quantile Regression Models
2025
The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth in a Remittance Receiving Country
2024
Unlocking growth: Investigating asymmetry in the financial inclusion-growth nexus in financially inclusive middle east economies
2024
Can government R&D expenditure promote innovation? New evidence from 37 OECD countries
2024
Does Trade Freedom Affect Exchange Rate Movement? A perspective of High-Technology Trade
2024
Exploring the Non-Linear Relationship and Mechanisms Linking Green Finance to Tourism Development
2024
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Urban House Prices: Comprehensive Explorations
2024
Decomposing scale, technique and composition effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality
2024
URBAN HOUSING PRICES AND CONSUMPTION STRUCTURE UPGRADING
2023
Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: A Quantile Regression Approach
2023
The necessity of social infrastructure for enhancing educational attainment: evidence from high remittance recipient LMICs
2023
Increases in oil price or oil exports: Which one is more positive on trade balance for African OPEC member countries?
2023
Environmental quality, residents’ health, and economic growth in the Yellow River Basin
2023
Currency Crises and Contagion Channels in Asian Economies
2023
How Do Housing Prices Affect A City’s Innovation Capacity? The Case of China
2023
Does urban tourism development impact urban housing prices?
2023
Measurement of Non-Use Value of Sand Lake Wetland Under CVM Method
2023
How does government efficiency affect carbon emission intensity? A comprehensive empirical study
2022
Do high housing prices crowd out young professionals?—Micro-evidence from China
2022
Migrant Remittances and Dutch Disease: Evidence from India
2022
Is bank risk appetite relevant to bank default in times of Covid-19?
2022
How does government efficiency affect health outcomes? The empirical evidence from 156 countries
2022
Role of green financing and financial inclusion to develop the cleaner environment for macroeconomic stability: Inter-temporal analysis of ASEAN economies
2022
Does market sentiment push up China’s housing prices? - An empirical study based on the data of 45 mainstream cities in China
2021
Asymmetric effects of corporate sustainability strategy on value creation among global automotive firms: A dynamic panel quantile regression approach
2021
Asymmetric Pass-though Effects of Oil Price on Economic Growth in Malaysia
2021
Determinants of Renewable Energy Production: Do Intellectual Property Rights Matter?
2020
Remittances, Institutions and Financial Inclusion: New Evidence of Non-Linearity
2020
Role of Remittances on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh
2020
Asymmetric Impacts of Oil Price Shocks on Malaysian Economic Growth: Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach
2020
Remittance Inflow and Economic Development: Interaction with Financial Inclusion and Human Capital
2020
The Nexus of Remittances, Institutional Quality and Financial Inclusion
2020
House Prices and Bank Credit in China: Analysis of First- and Second-Tier Cities
2020
Microeconomic Impact of Remittances at the Household Level in a Remittance Receiving Country, Bangladesh
2019
Oil Price Changes and Trade Openness in Nigeria: Linear and Nonlinear Approach
2019
Housing Prices in Peninsular Malaysia: Supported by Income, Foreign Inflow or Speculation?
2019
Analysing the Effect of Portfolio Concentration Index and Stock Market Correlation
2018
Asymmetric Impacts of Oil Price on Inflation: An Empirical Study of African OPEC Member Countries
2018
Intelectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth
2018
The Impacts of Various Trade Arrangements on Malaysia's Bilateral Trade Costs
2018
Energy Consumption and Real GDP Nexus: A Malaysian Case Demonstrating the Importance of Trade Openness
2018
Housing Prices in Peninsular Malaysia: Supported by Income, Foreign Inflow or Speculation?
2018
The Impact of Various Trade Arrangements on Malaysia Bilateral's Trade Costs
2017
The Impact of Oil Export and Food Production on Inflation in African OPEC Members
2017
Asymmetric behavior of exchange rate pass-through in Thailand
2017
The Impact of Financial Development, Oil Price on Economic Growth in African OPEC Members
2017
Do Integrated Economies Grow Faster? Evidence from Domestic Equity Holdings
2016
The Impact of Oil Prices on Soybeans Commodity Prices: Asymmetric Cointegration Evidence
2015
Pass-through Effect of Oil Price into Consumer Price: An Empirical Study
2015
Consumption and Housing Wealth: A Malaysian Case that Demonstrates a Negative Relationship
2015
IS THERE ANY REGIONAL PRICE DISPARITY IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA?
2015
Testing the Efficacy of Information Transmission: Is Equity Style Index Better than Stock Market Index?
2015
The Determinants of Non-Tariff Barriers: The Role of WTO Membership
2013
MONETARY POLICY AND EXCHANGE MARKET PRESSURE IN MALAYSIA
2013
The Effects of Trade Openness on Malaysian Exchange Rate
2012
TESTING THE VALIDITY OF THE MONETARY MODEL FOR ASEAN WITH STRUCTURAL BREAK
2012
Testing the validity of the monetary model for ASEAN with structural break
2011
Intranational Purchasing Power Parity: Evidence for Malaysia
2011
On the Exchange Rates Behavior by PPP: A Test on Malaysian Ringgit and US Dollar
2010
Currency Linkages among ASEAN
2010
RM/USD Exchange Market Pressure and Monetary Policy in Malaysia
2010
Purchasing Power Parity and Free Trade Area
2009
ASEAN-5+3 and US Stock Markets Interdependence Before, During and After Asian Financial Crisis
2009
Tests of different monetary aggregates for the monetary models of the exchange rate in five ASEAN countries
2009
The Linkages of Asian and the US Stock Market
2009
Tests of the Different Variants of the Monetary Model in a Developing Economy: Malaysian Experience in the Pre- and Post-crisis Periods
2008
Price Convergence and Market Integration: Evidence from Malaysia