Economics and Finance Readings: Selected Papers from Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, 2022

Evan Lau serves as the Associate Professor and Head of Strategic in the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). He was the Deputy Dean for Research and Postgraduate at the Faculty of Economics and Business from 2016 - 2017 and the Director of the Centre for Business, Economics and Finance Forecasting (BEFfore), UNIMAS from 2013 - 2016. He holds editorial positions in numerous international journals. He was at the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge from October 2013 - April 2014 as a visiting scholar. He was appointed as the Visiting Professor in Universitas Sebelas Maret from June - July 2019 and with Universitas Hayam Wuruk from February 2021 - August 2021. He was selected for the World Class Professor (WCP) program by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia, twice in 2020 and 2021. He was appointed the Visiting Research Fellowship (VRF) for the Central Bank of Malaysia in May 2021 for a year. Evan speaks at numerous international conferences in countries like Indonesia, UAE, Sri Lanka, Italy, India, Phillippines and Malaysia. Besides, he is also an active academic workshop instructor. He provides lectures, consultations and supervision to students and receives positive evaluations from both undergraduates and postgraduates. He often shares his life story and research findings in class. Today, his journal articles publications stand at 106, and he has 90 research papers published as chapters in books, conference proceedings, working papers, newsletters and newspaper articles. His excellence in research has brought him several award-winning awards, including the Young Researcher Award in UNIMAS, the Excellent Service Award, research medals from Research Expos, best papers, and Highest-Impact Journal Paper Award. To date, he has 83 postgraduate students under his supervision. He has examined 63 postgraduate theses and 142 undergraduate research projects. As an active researcher, he has been awarded a total of 28 research grants. He was listed among the Top 9% of economists in Malaysia since 2008 and the Top 10% in Asia since 2012 by the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database. He is among the highly cited authors in UNIMAS. Apart from the academic journey, he joined several running events and enjoyed travelling around the world.

Rayenda Khresna Brahmana, Ph.D., is currently attached to the College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain. He also serves BigaAlpha.id as a senior advisor. Brahmana has an MSc in Investment from the University of Birmingham and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Finance from Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has published in reputable journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Research in International Business and Finance, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Strategy and Management, Management Research Review, and Economics Bulletin. His research area is behavioral corporate finance, behavioral finance, and corporate strategy.

Lee Ming Tan is the founder of East Asia Research and he obtained his Master of Applied Finance from the University of Adelaide. He is deeply interested in how humans function and react with each other. An insight into how people's minds think and how they work together is invaluable in just about every field. Outside of work, Anthony Tan enjoys outdoor activities and occasional computer games.

Evan Lau擔任馬來西亞砂拉越大學（UNIMAS）經濟與商業學院的副教授及戰略部門主任。他於2016年至2017年間擔任經濟與商業學院的研究與研究生副院長，並於2013年至2016年間擔任UNIMAS商業、經濟與金融預測中心（BEFfore）的主任。他在多本國際期刊擔任編輯職務。2013年10月至2014年4月，他作為訪問學者在劍橋大學經濟學院工作。2019年6月至7月，他被任命為塞貝拉斯馬爾特大學的訪問教授，並於2021年2月至2021年8月在哈亞姆·武魯克大學擔任訪問教授。他於2020年和2021年兩次被印尼教育與文化部選為世界級教授（WCP）計畫的成員。他於2021年5月被任命為馬來西亞中央銀行的訪問研究獎學金（VRF），為期一年。Evan在印尼、阿聯酋、斯里蘭卡、義大利、印度、菲律賓和馬來西亞等國的多個國際會議上發表演講。此外，他也是一位活躍的學術工作坊講師，為學生提供講座、諮詢和指導，並獲得本科生和研究生的正面評價。他經常在課堂上分享自己的生活故事和研究成果。至今，他的期刊文章發表數量已達106篇，並有90篇研究論文以書籍章節、會議論文、工作報告、通訊和報紙文章的形式發表。他在研究方面的卓越表現為他贏得了多項獎項，包括UNIMAS的青年研究者獎、優秀服務獎、研究博覽會的研究獎牌、最佳論文獎和最高影響期刊論文獎。至今，他已指導83名研究生，並審查了63篇研究生論文和142個本科研究項目。作為一名活躍的研究者，他共獲得28項研究資助。自2008年以來，他在馬來西亞的經濟學家中名列前9%，自2012年以來在亞洲名列前10%，這些數據來自經濟學研究論文（RePEc）數據庫。他是UNIMAS中被引用次數較高的作者之一。除了學術之旅，他還參加了多個跑步活動，並享受環遊世界的樂趣。

Rayenda Khresna Brahmana博士目前任職於巴林大學商業管理學院。他同時擔任BigaAlpha.id的高級顧問。Brahmana擁有伯明翰大學的投資碩士學位和馬來西亞科學大學的行為金融博士學位。他在《商業策略與環境》、《國際金融與經濟期刊》、《國際商業與金融研究》、《全球金融期刊》、《策略與管理期刊》、《管理研究評論》和《經濟公報》等知名期刊上發表過文章。他的研究領域包括行為企業金融、行為金融和企業策略。

Lee Ming Tan是東亞研究的創始人，他獲得了阿德萊德大學的應用金融碩士學位。他對人類如何運作和彼此反應深感興趣。了解人們的思維方式及其如何協作在幾乎所有領域都是無價的。在工作之外，Anthony Tan喜歡戶外活動和偶爾的電腦遊戲。