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With real estate agents knowing more about their area of expertise than the people paying for their services, do real estate agents exploit their knowledge advantage for their own interests? In ‘The information advantage of Singapore’s real estate agents’, Prof Sumit Agarwal (Professor of Economics, Finance and Real Estate) shares his views on the issue […]
Thick haze has enveloped the region for the past month, sparking health concerns and worries over its impact on regional economies. In response, regional countries have not only offered to provide help to the Indonesian government in putting out raging wild fires but have also vowed to punish errant companies involved in burning plantations. Yet, […]
How does economics drive contestants in the MediaCorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge, an annual car challenge in which over 400 individuals slug it out for a chance to win a Subaru? In ‘How long would you hold on for a car?’, Senior Lecturer Eric Fesselmeyer and A/P Serene Tan (Dept. of Economics) used economics to explain how hard people […]
The Picture Singapore 2015 Exhibit runs from 2 Nov-2 Dec. Visit ArtsBuzz Gallery at NUS Central Library to see the winning entries in person! The winning stories from SRN’s NUS 110 Word Competition are on display as well.
Here are the 10 winners of the 2nd annual Singapore Research Nexus Picture Singapore photography competition! The theme for this year is Change & Continuity. You can view all the entries here.
The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) is a unique academic resource covering the wide range of research on Singapore produced by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). It can be found at http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/srn/ SRN is currently engaged in a project to build a repository of photographs of Singapore. We are currently accepting applications from […]
Despite having drawn large crowds to its rallies and attracted much support on social media, the Opposition did not perform as well as it had been expected to in this year’s General Election, taking many by surprise and prompting much post-election analyses. In a commentary for Lianhe Zaobao, Associate Professor Ong Chang Woei (Department of […]
Professor Bao Zhiming of the Department of English Language and Literature has published a new book titled The Making of Singapore English: System, Transfer and Filter, which charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical, and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. Singapore English is a focal […]
Slides from the September 2015 Research Visibility Workshop are available here.
The General Election 2015 saw the People’s Action Party (PAP) securing close to 70% of the total votes cast and 82 out of 89 seats in the Parliament, reversing its relatively poor electoral performance in 2011. On the other hand, not only did the Opposition as a whole fare more poorly, but the main opposition […]