Yap Su Fei

Biography

Associate Professor Dr Yap Su Fei obtained her PhD in the field of Macromodeling.She has published widely in Scopus and ISI journals including the Journal of Policy Modeling, Asia Pacific Business Review, Singapore Economic Review, Disasters, Institutions and Economies, Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ( previously Kajian Ekonomi Malaysia ), International Journal of Economic Research and the Journal of Contemporary Economics among others. She has 2 books published. She has supervised 15 PhD students of which 5 have successfully graduated (as at August 2016) and more than 50 Masters students who have all graduated. She has used her expertise in Macroeconomics and Economic Modeling starting from her PhD thesis which did an innovative macromodel on a system of Derivatives employing Calculus and Differentials to computationally map Macroeconomic outcomes over changes, rather than levels. As such, her expertise runs consistently through her papers and publications with a focus on macroeconomic systems and modeling. She has received important recognition as a macroeconomist and modeller as atested by her many consultative, expert linkages and reviewer evaluations. She has contributed substantially to national policy issues and conducted joint research on the National Plantation and Minimum Wages Study, Economic Impact of the Petronas International Grand Prix for a total of 4 separate Consultancies, Rubber Master Plan, Industrial Master Plan, the National Foresight Alliance Vision Malaysia 2050 and numerous budget memorandums for the Ministry of Finance. She has anchored the post graduate program in Economics and taught Advanced Macroeconomics which is a core paper for the Masters of Economics Program for many years.

Research Interest

Macromodelling, Input - Output Analysis, Information Economics