Laying Foundations For More Stable Order
The financial reform agenda is long and challenging. However, history has taught us that crises are an important part of the evolutionary process of creative destruction, the occasion for outdated and inefficient institutions to change into better ones.
Professor Lim Chin, Department of Business Policy and Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor dated 26 March 2009
The Foggy Business Of The Shadow Banking System
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Banking – like other essential services – requires disinterested regulation, not business-government cooperation.
Prof Randall Morck, NUS Business School Dean's Visiting Professor dated 25 March 2009
Crude Oil Prices An Economic Dipstick
The best solution to structural problems in the oil market is for all nations to continue discouraging the consumption of oil through the use of higher indirect taxes and reduced subsidies on petroleum products.
Professor Sam Ouliaris, Department of Business Policy dated 24 March 2009
Staying The Course During A Crisis
A few years from now, when the current crisis is a distant memory, companies that stayed the course will be winners. Companies that panic now and succumb to short-term pressures are likely to find themselves trying to catch up with rivals.
Assoc Prof Nitin Pangarkar, Department of Business Policy dated 19 March 2009
Ports' Growth: Biggest Is Not Always Best
Globalisation and container transportation thus have a symbiotic relationship with each other, they are both the cause and effect of each other’s growth.
Professor Teo Chung Piaw, Department of Decision Sciences and Vice-Dean (Research), Ding Ding is a research fellow in the school and Koay Peng Yen is a shipping and logistics industry veteran dated 18 March 2009
Shared governance and academic freedom are essential. They make the difference between a teaching institution and research-intensive university. They are the key to Singapore’s academic institutions maintaining a sustained advantage in the globalised education market. Professor Ivan Png, Lim Kim San Professor of Business Policy and Head of Department, NUS Business School dated 17 March 2009
“Innovated in Asia” will not be just about shifting innovation activities to Asia. It will also be about creating new organisational models and financing methods to create new products and services appropriate for the Asian socio-economic context.
Professor Wong Poh Kam, Department of Business Policy dated 12 March 2009
Bourses Going For Strategic Tie-Ups
The globalisation of financial markets will continue after the current financial crisis is over. Hence, the consolidation and collaboration of exchanges will most probably resume too. What would that mean for small players such as Singapore and our neighbours?
Asst Prof Yeo Wee Yong, Department of Finance dated 11 March 2009
US Debt: When 'Judgement Day' Comes
The good news is that globalisation, through the normal workings of the free market, is helping to bring about the needed adjustments by increasing the size and wealth of the middle class, especially in emerging markets.
Professor Sam Ouliaris, Department of Business Policy dated 10 March 2009
Involving more parties in a financial market makes sense because capital can then be invested more efficiently in under takings yielding higher returns.
Professor Duan Jin-Chuan, Cycle and Carriage Professor of Finance and Director of the NUS Risk Management Institute dated 5 March 2009
Free Trade: What History Teaches Us
Will we learn from history? We know that protectionism would hurt a nation in the long run. But unfortunately, the gains of protectionism are concentrated in the short run and are more visible.
Proessor Lim Chin, Department of Business Policy and Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor dated 4 March 2009
Currents, Crises And Internal Tensions
In the absence of one predominant world power to quickly resolve international crises, the leaders of all the major economies must assume responsibility for not only their own economies but also for managing the tensions inherent in globalistion.
Proessor Lim Chin, Department of Business Policy and Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor dated 3 March 2009