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\nDate<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n\nNews Item<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n19 May 2026\n<\/td>\n Singapore’s hidden bill: From the Middle East oil shock to your wallet<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n19 May 2026\n<\/td>\nThe modern worker in trouble<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n19 May 2026\n<\/td>\nThe risk is moving too slowly – Singapore energy and oil<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n28 February 2026\n<\/td>\nTeaching Excellence Awards for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants AY2025\/26 Sem 1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n25 February 2026\n<\/td>\nWhen does corruption cause red tape?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n12 February 2026\n<\/td>\nPhD candidate, Zhang Yijun selected as Fox International Fellow at Yale University<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n11 February 2026\n<\/td>\nRich in income, poor in wealth? Singapore’s inequality gap<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n10 February 2026\n<\/td>\nBudget 2026: What’s on Singaporeans’ wish list?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n6 February 2026\n<\/td>\nTwo adjunct professors join our department<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n2 January 2026\n<\/td>\nLi Ming wins Zellner Award from the Journal of Econometrics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n26 November 2025\n<\/td>\nNUS honours 22 outstanding alumni for their service to alma mater and contributions to society<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n14 November 2025\n<\/td>\nOng\u00a0Ee\u00a0Cheng\u00a0discusses\u00a0recent\u00a0National\u00a0Wage\u00a0Council’s guidelines on CNA938<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n16 October 2025\n<\/td>\nNew fellow of the Econometrics Society<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n16 September 2025\n<\/td>\nTeaching Excellence Awards for Undergraduate TAs for AY2024\/25 Sem 2<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n9 August 2025\n<\/td>\nThe Amazing Transit Adventure<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n28 June 2025\n<\/td>\nTwo faculty members win Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY2023\/24<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n6 June 2025\n<\/td>\nCity\u00a0structures\u00a0are remarkably resilient: Lessons from Hiroshima after the bomb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n23 May 2025\n<\/td>\nNew faculty joining the department in AY2025\/26<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n23 April 2025\n<\/td>\nFASS Graduate Students’ Teaching Award<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n21 April 2025\n<\/td>\nOng Ee Cheng speaks at Economic Society of Singapore and Ministry of Education Annual Economics Seminar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n10 April 2025\n<\/td>\nNUS Economics Reunion Conference 2025<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n10 April 2025\n<\/td>\nTwo department faculty win FASS Inspiring Mentor Award 2024<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n12 March 2025\n<\/td>\nNUS Economics awards Teaching Excellence Awards AY2023\/24<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 March 2025<\/td>\nUndergraduate Teaching Excellence Award Winners for AY2024\/2025 Semester 1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>\nNUS Economics – Government Economic Service Joint Seminar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>\nSalinah Binte Zuber wins FASS Service Award 2024<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 October 2024<\/td>\nSharing Session on PhD Studies for undergraduate students<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23 September 2024<\/td>\nHow much should Singapore public transport be subsidized?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 July 2024<\/td>\nLatest issue of department newsletter released<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
07 November 2024<\/td>\nNUS Economics hosts a macroeconomic workshop<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14 August 2024\u00a0<\/td>\nUndergraduate Teaching Excellence Award Winners for AY2023\/2024 Semester 2<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02 August 2024<\/td>\nNUS Economics Society hosts annual National Economics and Financial Management Challenge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02 August 2024<\/td>\nFASS Inspiring Mentor Award 2023<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 June 2024<\/td>\n NUS Economics student wins Econ Frame 2024 photo competition<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16 May 2024\u00a0<\/td>\nFormer alum and faculty member among four honoured with Distinguished Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award 2024<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28 April 2024<\/td>\nGraduate Students’ Teaching Award for AY2023\/24 Sem 1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 April 2024<\/td>\nJohannes Haushofer and co-authors win the 2024 Frisch Medal!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08 April 2024<\/td>\nNew faculty members in AY2024\/25<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14 February 2024<\/td>\nTeaching Excellence Awards for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants AY2023\/2024 Semester 1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 February 2024<\/td>\nMeritocracy and its discontents<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09 January 2024<\/td>\nAfter O-Levels, the choice of subjects isn’t always straightforward<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05 January 2024<\/td>\nLorenz Goette featured in Channel News Asia documentary on Nudges<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 November 2023<\/td>\nThe political economy of social media: A new eBook<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 November 2023<\/td>\nFour faculty members awarded FASS Teaching Excellence Award 2023<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 November 2023<\/td>\nDepartment Sharing Session on PhD Studies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 November 2023<\/td>\nDo high cost of living concerns in Singapore affect everyone the same way?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 October 2023<\/td>\nSingapore has long resisted benefits, so why the change of heart?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16 September 2023<\/td>\nHow open data and gamification can make Singapore’s urban travel greener<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 July 2023<\/td>\nFASS Graduate Students’ Teaching Award for Semester 1, AY 2022\/23<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13 July 2023\u00a0<\/td>\nIn Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Lim Chong Yah<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13 July 2023\u00a0<\/td>\nNew faculty members in AY2023\/2024<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 April 2023<\/td>\nOng Ee Cheng proposes ways to enhance the Workfare Income Supplement scheme<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28 March 2023<\/td>\nIndividual Carbon Scorecards?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 March 2023<\/td>\nOng EeCheng and Siddharth George discuss inequality on an interdisciplinary panel at the FASS Open House 2023<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 2023<\/td>\nInterview with Chew Soo Hong<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 January 2023<\/td>\nZhong Songfa’s research on stress and athletic performance featured in The Economist<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 2022<\/td>\nEconomics alumni recognized with FASS Distinguished Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award 2022<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 November 2022<\/td>\nPublic Lecture by MPA Distinguished Visitor in Shipping Economics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14 November 2022<\/td>\nPublic Lecture by MAS Term Professor in Economics and Finance<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28 October 2022<\/td>\nLorenz Goette featured in Channel News Asia documentary<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 October 2022<\/td>\nFive department administrative staff members honoured at the FASS Service Awards 2022<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29 September 2022<\/td>\nPhD Job Market Candidates<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 August 2022<\/td>\nOCBC Bank and NUS Economics collaborate on nationwide electric vehicle adoption study<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29 July 2022<\/td>\nNUS Economics’ Associate Professor Jessica Pan Among Eight Honoured at NUS University Awards<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28 July 2022<\/td>\nTwo undergraduates win awards for their research<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 July 2022<\/td>\nThe good that can come from strikes and pandemics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 June 2022<\/td>\nNUS Economics has two representatives on Forbes’ 30 under 30 Asia List 2022<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 April 2022<\/td>\nNew faculty members in AY2022\/2023<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22 April 2022<\/td>\nHow would a person’s carbon scorecard work?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 April 2022<\/td>\nLorenz Goette speaks at the MOE Economics Student Symposium 2022<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 March 2022<\/td>\n#MeToo shows power of social movements<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16 January 2022<\/td>\nFaculty Teaching Excellence Awards 2021<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30 October 2021
\n<\/td>\n		Mini-conference for NUS Econ Theorists<\/a>
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 October 2021<\/td>\nNUS Economics Commencement 2021<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 October 2021<\/td>\nPhD Job Market Candidates<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23 February 2022
\n<\/td>\n		New Faculty Appointments<\/a>
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06 December 2021<\/td>\nNUS Department of Economics co-organizes the 13th Singapore Economic Policy Forum.<\/a>
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01 December 2021<\/td>\nSatoru Takahashi wins prestigious prize<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14 September 2021<\/td>\nYogita Shamdasani wins NUS Presidential Young Professorship Award<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04 August 2021<\/td>\nHCI team wins Econ Challenge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02 August 2021<\/td>\nSeven bursaries awarded by the NUS Economics Alumni<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 July 2021<\/td>\nNUS Public Lecture on “Prospects in Shipping and Port Economics”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11 July 2021<\/td>\nEconomics Undergraduate Prize and Medal Winners 2020\/21<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06 July 2021<\/td>\nCombining Nursing with Economics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23 June 2021<\/td>\nHonorary Fellowship for Albert Tsui<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 June 2021<\/td>\nBest Paper Awards<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 May 2021<\/td>\nEconomics alumni honoured by the University<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05 April 2021<\/td>\nNew faculty members in AY2021\/2022<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26 February 2021<\/td>\nNew Editorial Appointments<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05 January 2021<\/td>\nRemembering Ungku Abdul Aziz<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08 December 2020<\/td>\nGraduate Students’ Teaching Awards 2019 — 2020<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 October 2020<\/td>\nAir pollution drives food delivery consumption and plastic waste<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
07 October 2020<\/td>\nFaculty and Department Teaching Award Winners AY2019\/2020<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 September 2020<\/td>\nNew fellows of the Econometric Society<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 August 2020<\/td>\nAir pollution drives residential electricity demand<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 August 2020<\/td>\nUniversity and Faculty Teaching Award Winners AY2018\/2019<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01 August 2020<\/td>\nConference for NUS Alumni Theorists<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01 August 2020<\/td>\nNew Faculty Members in August 2020<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30 June 2020<\/td>\nBasant Kapur, Lee Soo Ann conferred Emeritus Professorships<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 May 2020<\/td>\nNew Editorial Appointments<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18 May 2020<\/td>\nAlberto Salvo receives Sustainability Award<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13 May 2020<\/td>\nZhong Songfa receives Faculty Award<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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