{"id":10086,"date":"2021-08-28T07:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T07:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/?page_id=10086"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:38:34","slug":"research-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\t\tResearch Features\t<\/h2>\n\t<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Martin Mattsson<\/b>\u00a0discusses his motivation to improve aggregate well-being by examining\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-highlights-martin-mattsson\/\"><u>institutions<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from the ground up. He shares insights from his research on bureaucratic behavior and local justice in Bangladesh and India, as well as his current work tackling environmental challenges in that region.\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Edited-Martin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/Ruben-Durante-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Ruben Durante shares how a book by Muhammad Yunus sparked his interest in development economics and discusses his recent research on <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-highlights-ruben-durante\/\">political economy, media, and AI.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/NUS-DEPT-OF-ECONS-2020-PS-59-of-145-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Yogita Shamdasani tells us how she became interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-highlights-yogita-shamdasani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development economics<\/a> and about the challenges of doing field research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Chew-Soo-Hong-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Chew Soo Hong reminisces about his research career and tells us how he developed an interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-highlights-chew-soo-hong\/\">economic models of decision-making<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Is it possible to make sharp predictions in strategic situations? How can auction designs be improved? Chen Yi-Chun tells us of his early encounters with <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-highlights-chen-yi-chun\/\">game theory<\/a> and of the questions that, over the years, have intrigued and challenged him.<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/NUS-DEPT-OF-ECONS-2020-PS-85-of-145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/NUS-DEPT-OF-ECONS-2020-PS-21-of-145-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/td>\n<td>What is the macroeconomic impact of government spending on infrastructure projects? What assurance should a central bank provide on how it will react to future events?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How to build macroeconomic models that are both precise and intelligible?\u00a0\u00a0 These questions are among those that Jordan Roulleau-Pasdeloup addresses in his <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/research-highlights-jordan-roulleau-pasdeloup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>When pollution begets pollution&#8230;\n<p>The research of <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/people\/liu-haoming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liu Haoming<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/people\/alberto-salvo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alberto Salvo<\/a> traces how responses to pollution magnify the environmental damage that it causes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nus.edu.sg\/research\/air-pollution-drives-food-delivery-consumption-and-plastic-waste?utm_source=newsmailer&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Air+pollution+drives+food+delivery+consumption+and+plastic+waste\">Air pollution drives food delivery and plastic waste in China <\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.nus.edu.sg\/air-pollution-drives-residential-electricity-demand\/\">Air pollution raises residential electricity demand in Singapore<\/a><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/NUS-DEPT-OF-ECONS-2020-PS-97-of-145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/NUS-DEPT-OF-ECONS-2020-PS-46-of-145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Features Martin Mattsson\u00a0discusses his motivation to improve aggregate well-being by examining\u00a0institutions\u00a0from the ground up. He shares insights from his research on bureaucratic behavior and local justice in Bangladesh and India, as well as his current work tackling environmental challenges in that region. Ruben Durante shares how a book by Muhammad Yunus sparked his interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34199,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10086\/revisions\/34199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}