Key events
8th Globalisation and Economic Policy International Conference
The World Economy Annual Asia Lecture (sponsored by Wiley Publishers) delivered by Dr Hans Genberg, Advisor, South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ and Training Centre titled 'Implementing Macro-prudential Policies: Challenges, Pitfalls and Way Forward'
8th Globalisation and Economic Policy International Conference NSE Malaysia, in conjunction with Nottingham Centre for 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM) and Special Projects Cluster, Majlis Professor Negara (MPN) hosted the 8th GEP conference on Current Issues in International Economics and Open-Economy Macroeconomics at the Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre. The annual conference is a major forum for academic interaction and debate, attracting prestigious speakers from universities around the world. It included two invited lectures as well as presentation and discussion of fourteen academic papers. The invited lectures were sponsored by sponsored by Boustead Holdings Berhad and Wiley Publishers, respectively. In the first invited lecture, Professor Christine Ennew, Provost and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia Campus talked on The Future of International Education. Dr Hans Genberg, Advisor, South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ and Training Centre talked about Implementing Macro-prudential Policies: Challenges, Pitfalls and Way Forward in the second invited lecture. Some 200 participants from Asia, Europe and Australia attended the conference.
NSE 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Seminar on current issues in Economics
On behalf of NSE, Dr Nusrate Aziz organized a day-long research seminar on current issues in economics. The seminar was held at Nottingham 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Malaysia Campus on 15 February 2015. Dr Rasyad Parinduri, Dr Saumik Paul and Dr David Prentice from Nottingham 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Malaysia Campus; and Dr Gareth Leeves and Dr Luc Borrowman from Monash 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ presented their papers on social health insurance, crop diversification, poverty and economic well-being, gender gaps in job satisfaction, and housing affordability stress, respectively. Some 45 participants attended the seminar.
Dr Prentice visited Sri Lanka to deliver a workshop, 16 to 17 March 2015
Seaside, Colombo
Dr Prentice visited three high schools in Kandy and Colombo in Sri Lanka on 16 and 17 March 2015 to discuss studying and careers in Economics as well as presenting a workshop. The three schools were Gateway International School in Kandy, Gateway International School in Colombo and Ladies College in Colombo. He writes, "The workshop was a lot of fun to run and the students seem to enjoy it. It was based around the Prisoners’ Dilemma. This is a classic problem in game theory, which is both fun and introduces the Nash equilibrium – the main solution concept applied in game theory. After explaining the game, I then had two student volunteers come on stage and play the game. In this game players are in aggregate better off if they cooperate but have strong incentives to cheat. After watching the volunteers play, at the Gateway School in Colombo, where we had over 50 students in the class, the class broke up into groups and played the game themselves several times while I went around each group checking how they were going. At the other schools, two student volunteers then played the game three times in succession. Playing the game several times provides opportunities to sustain cooperation through rewards and punishment (though the Nash equilibrium still features cheating each time). At one school, two friends volunteered and one girl played cooperate expecting her friend to do so. She was then shocked (and their classmates very surprised, bursting into laughter) to find her friend had cheated! I did see the two friends make up afterwards though!"
Dr Prentice's visit to Nottingham UK Campus, 15 to 27 June 2015
Dr. Prentice visited the UK campus from 15 to 27 June 2015 as to to attend the Exam Board, present in the School seminar series and to discuss research with colleagues there. He also attended a one day festschrift for Professor Sir David Greenaway and the end of semester lunch!
Finally, Nottingham is also a very pleasant place to visit. I was able to walk to campus from where I stayed and it was a short trip to the centre of the city as there are buses running all the time and the tramline will be extended out to the campus too in near future. It is the train line, which makes visiting London and other parts of the UK straightforward. I got the chance to visit the villages not far from Nottingham where the Prentices lived before migrating to Australia in the mid nineteenth century and also do some orienteering too!"
NSE Malaysia Essay Competition 2015
- Melissa Liang Pei Yun (Institute of Science and Management, Sabah)
- Wong Huey Teng and Shalini Samudri A/P Ananda Rao (MCKL)
- Edward Chai Chuan Jun and Li Zhe Lai (Marlborough College, Nusajaya, Johor)
- Lena Fricker (Alice Smith)
- Lydia Loh Ying Yi (Lodge International School, Kuching, Sarawak)
- Matthias Shao Wei Tio (Lodge International School, Kuching, Sarawak)
