W.N.W. Azman-Saini (Ph.D.)

Department of Economics

Universiti Putra Malaysia

43400 Serdang Selangor,

MALAYSIA.

Tel: +60 3 8946 7628

Fax: +60 3 8948 6188

Email: wazman@putra.upm.edu.my

Web: http://www.econ.upm.edu.my/~wazman/

• PhD.(Economics), University of Southampton, United Kingdom. 2009.

  • Title: Three Empirical Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Research and Development, and Insurance.
  • Supervisors: Jean-Yves Pitarakis, Hector Calvo Pardo, and Peter Smith.
  • Examiners: Facundo Albornoz and Jackie Wahba.
• Master of Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. 1999.
• B.B.A. (Finance, Economics & Management), Northwood University, Michigan, U.S.A. 1997.
• Diploma in International Trade, Sultan Zainal Abidin Religious College, Malaysia. 1995.

• Karim, Z.A., Azman-Saini, W. N. W., Karim, B.A. (2011). Bank lending channel of monetary policy: dynamic panel data evidence from Malaysia, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, [forthcoming]. (pdf)

• Azman-Saini, W. N. W., Smith, P. (2011) Finance and Growth: New Evidence on the Role of Insurance, South African Journal of Economics, 79(2), 111-127. (pdf)

• Azman-Saini, W. N. W., Baharumshah, A.Z. and Law, S.H. (2010) Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Freedom and Economic Growth: International Evidence. Economic Modelling, 27, 1079–1089.(pdf)

• Azman-Saini, W. N. W., Law, S. H. and Ahmad, A.H. (2010) FDI and Economic Growth: New Evidence on the Role of Financial Market. Economics Letters, 107, 211–213. (pdf)

• Azman-Saini, W. N. W., Evan Lau, and Z. Karim. (2010) Hedge Funds, Exchange Rate and Causality: Evidence from Thailand and Malaysia. Applied Economics Letters, 17, 393-397. (pdf)

• Ahmad, A.H, Daud, S.N., Azman-Saini,W.N.W. (2010). Efficient market hypothesis in emerging markets: Panel data evidence with multiple breaks and cross sectional dependence, Economics Bulletin, 30(4), 2987-2995. (pdf)

• M.S. Habibullah, Peter Smith, Azman-Saini, W. N. W. (2006) Testing liquidity Constraints in Ten Selected Asian Countries: Error-Correction Approach. Applied Economics. 38, 2535-2543. (pdf)

• Azman-Saini, W. N. W, M. Azali, M.S. Habibuh and K.G.P. Matthew. (2002) Financial Integration and ASEAN-5 Equity Market, Applied Economics, 34, 2283-2288. (pdf)

• American Economic Association, United States.
• Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom.

• Foreign Direct Investment, R&D Spillovers, Financial Development, Financial Market Integration.

• Postgraduate:  International Finance, Current Issues in Economics, Managerial Economics.
• Undergraduate: International Finance, Current Issues in Financial Economics, Financial Economics, Money and Banking, Principles of Economics.