Chor Foon TANG
MEc.Mgmt. (USM), BEc.(Hons) (UUM)
Department of Economics,
Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya (UM)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Applied Econometrics; Development Economics, Economics of Crime; Energy Economics; Macroeconomics; Savings-Growth Nexus; Tourism Economics

PUBLICATIONS

Articles Accepted for Publication:
  1. Bee Wah Tan and Chor Foon Tang, The dynamic relationship between private domestic investment, the user cost of capital, public investment, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Malaysia. Forthcoming in Economia Politica. [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.610] 
  2. Chor Foon Tang, Temporal Granger causality and the dynamics relationship between real tourism receipts, real income and real exchange rates in Malaysia. Forthcoming in International Journal of Tourism Research. [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.802]
  3. Chor Foon Tang and Kean Siang Ch'ng, A multivariate analysis of the nexus between savings and economic growth in the ASEAN-5 economies. Forthcoming in Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research. [SCOPUS]


Selected Articles Published in Refereed Journals

2012
  1. Chor Foon Tang and Eu Chye Tan, Electricity consumption and economic growth in Portugal: Evidence from a multivariate framework analysis. Energy Journal, 33(4), pp. 23-48. Abstract  [Impact Factor in 2010: 1.402]
  2. Chor Foon Tang and Soo Yean Chua, The savings-growth nexus for the Malaysian economy: A view through rolling sub-samples. Applied Economics, 44(32), pp. 4173-4185. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.424]
  3. Chor Foon Tang, The non-monotonic effect of real wages on labour productivity: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Malaysia. International Journal of Social Economics, 39(6), pp. 391-399. Abstract and PDF file [SCOPUS]
2011
  1. Chor Foon Tang, Multivariate Granger causality and the dynamic relationship between health care spending, income, and relative price of health care in Malaysia. Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 52(2), pp. 199-214. Abstract and PDF file [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.192]
  2. Muhammad Shahbaz, Chor Foon Tang and Muhammad Shahbaz Shabbir, Electricity consumption and economic growth nexus in Portugal using cointegration and causality approaches. Energy Policy, 39(6), pp. 3529-3536. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 2.629]
  3. Chor Foon Tang, Old wine in new bottles: Are Malaysia's tourism markets converging? Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 16(3), pp. 263-272. Abstract [SSCI]
  4. Chor Foon Tang and Hooi Hooi Lean, Revisit Feldstein-Horioka puzzle: Evidence from Malaysia. Economics Bulletin, 31(3), pp. 2237-2249. Abstract and PDF file [SCOPUS]
  5. Chor Foon Tang, Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for Malaysia? A view from disaggregated tourism markets. International Journal of Tourism Research, 13(1), pp. 97-101. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.802]
  6. Chor Foon Tang, An exploration of dynamic relationship between tourist arrivals, inflation, unemployment, and crime rates in Malaysia. International Journal of Social Economics, 38(1), pp. 50-69. Abstract and PDF file [SCOPUS] [Selected as a Sample Article in 2011 by the Editor]
2010
  1. Chor Foon Tang, The effects of macroeconomic evils on property and violent crimes in Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Society, 11(2), pp. 35-50. Abstract [SCOPUS]
  2. Chor Foon Tang, The money-prices nexus for Malaysia: New empirical evidence from the time-varying cointegration and causality tests. Global Economic Review, 39(4), pp. 383-403. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.130]
  3. Hooi Hooi Lean and Chor Foon Tang, Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis stable for Malaysia? A note. International Journal of Tourism Research, 12(4), pp. 375-378. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.802]
2009
  1. Chor Foon Tang, The linkages among inflation, unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia. International Journal of Economics and Management, 3(1), pp. 50-61. Abstract and PDF file [SCOPUS]
  2. Chor Foon Tang, Electrical consumption, income, foreign direct investment, and population in Malaysia: New evidence from multivariate framework analysis. Journal of Economic Studies, 36(4), pp. 371-382. Abstract [SCOPUS]
  3. Chor Foon Tang, An examination of the government spending and economic growth nexus for Malaysia using the leveraged bootstrap simulation approach. Global Economic Review, 38(2), pp. 215-227. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.130]
  4. Chor Foon Tang and Hooi Hooi Lean, New evidence from the misery index in the crime function. Economics Letters, 102(2), pp. 112-115 . Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 0.449]
2008
  1. Chor Foon Tang, An empirical modelling on savings behaviour in Malaysia. Labuan Bulletin of International Business and Finance, 6, pp. 57-76. Abstract and PDF file [EconLit]
  2. Chor Foon Tang, A re-examination of the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Malaysia. Energy Policy, 36(8), pp. 3077-3085. Abstract [Impact Factor in 2010: 2.629]
2007
  1. Chor Foon Tang and Hooi Hooi Lean, Is the Phillips curve stable for Malaysia? New empirical evidence. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 44(2), pp. 95-105. Abstract and PDF file [SCOPUS]
  2. Chor Foon Tang and Hooi Hooi Lean, Will inflation increase crime rate? New evidence from bounds and modified Wald tests. Global Crime, 8(4), pp. 311-323. Abstract [SCOPUS]
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