Prof. Yang ZU, designated Associate Professor, will join the University of Macau in Fall 2022. For further information, please click here.

Dr. Allen VONG, UM Macao Fellow in Social Sciences, has been invited as Young Economist among 427 young scholars in economic sciences worldwide to attend the 7th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences. From 23 August, 2022 through 27 August, 2022, the participants will exchange ideas and experiences with each other and with the Laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank’s Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. 19 of these laureates have confirmed their participation so far. In addition to their research, the meeting programme will include topics such as "Social Change and Social Media" as well as "Economics and [...]

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FSS Academic Staff Awards Ceremony of 2021/2022 was held earlier at FSS Academic Council Meeting this week. Five professors of FSS were awarded in the areas of teaching, research, service and community service, while another young professor was awarded Emerging Scholar. Prof. Mei Mei Aileen Lam, Assistant Professor of Economics, was presented with the Emerging Scholar Award. And Prof. Yibai Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics, was presented with the Outstanding Teaching Award. Finally, Prof. Richard Weixing Hu, Dean of FSS, expressed a big congratulations to the awardees. Please join us in congratulating them on their best efforts over the year! [...]

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The Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition (EEIST) consortium recently launched their flagship report entitled "THE NEW ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND TRANSITION: EVALUATING OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS" at COP26. Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement requires unprecedented, policy-led transformations in multiple technologies and sectors. The greatest successes achieved so far in the low carbon transition happened in ways that few people expected, using approaches that economic analysis generally did not recommend. To better assess the new opportunities brought by new energy technologies and the risks of inaction, the report proposes Risk-Opportunity Analysis to inform policy-making to accelerate transformational innovation. [...]

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Prof. Fung Kwan's interview on the topics of the Beijing Stock Exchange and "common prosperity" The Teledifusão de Macau News earlier interviewed Prof. Fung Kwan, Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics and Research Fellow of Asian Economics of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management of University of Macau, to express his views on the establishment of the Beijing Stock Exchange by the Central Government, and the promotion of national realization of “common prosperity”. From the perspective of Prof. Fung Kwan, the decision of the Central Government on the launch of Beijing Stock Exchange could enhance the national economic [...]

The “Plataforma” earlier interviewed Prof. Fung Kwan, Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics and Research Fellow of Asian Economics at the Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management, to discuss the diversification of Macao economy and social responsibility. Fung Kwan said that the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region has been committed to the development of the diversification of the Macao economy. According to the data provided by the Statistics and Census Service in 2019, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the gaming industry accounted for 50.5% of the local gross domestic product (GDP) before the pandemic, an increase of [...]

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