Monthly Archives: March 2010

Article Alert

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The following two articles by LSIBF’s staff, Kian-Ping Lim, are now in press:

  1. Kian-Ping Lim and Robert D. Brooks. Why do emerging stock markets experience more persistent price deviations from a random walk over time? A country-level analysis, Macroeconomics Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, in press.
  2. Kian-Ping Lim and Robert D. Brooks. The evolution of stock market efficiency over time: a survey of the empirical literature, Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley-Blackwell, in press.

The first article is extracted from Chapter 4 of Lim’s Ph.D. thesis at Monash University. The second paper, extracted from his literature review chapter of the same thesis, contains a survey of 321 papers on stock market efficiency. Both journals are indexed by Thomson ISI.

Quality of Journal Publication

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In recent years, Malaysian universities have given greater weight to publication in good quality journal, especially in the four research-intensive universities (namely Universiti Malaya, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Sains Malaysia). At the moment, the benchmark indicators used in Malaysia are journals included in  Scopus and WoS. For the former database, the list of journals can be downloaded directly from here (click for Excel file), while the latter requires subscription (which UMS Library did subscribe).

In Australia, discipline-specific journal ranking lists have been compiled at the national level to evaluate the quality of journal publication. The list compiled under the ERA initiative is available here (click for Excel file).

Grant Application Success

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The application result for Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Round 1/2010, has been announced on March 3, 2010. Two applications from LSIBF were approved:

  1. Exploring the Economics of the Management of Cash Waqf: Implication on Poverty Eradication (Head of Project: Dr Rosita Chong)
  2. Identifying Key Variables to Support the Developing an Indicators to Measure the Socio-Economic Contributions of IBFC on the Development of Labuan and Neighbouring States (Head of Project: Raihana Firdaus)

LSIBF would like to congratulate Dr Rosita Chong, Raihana Firdaus and their respective team members for the success in this competitive national grant application.