Hooi Hooi Lean
Biographic Data
| ID | 1540944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hooi Hooi Lean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hooi Hooi |
| FAMILY NAME | Lean |
| SIGNATURE | LEAN H H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6847-0274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where Informal Institutions Lead, Innovation Follows
This paper examines the impact of local creative culture on bank financial innovation within the framework of informal institutional theory. Using comprehensive panel data from 2017 to 2022, we reveal that banks located in highly creative environments exhibit greater financial innovation. This relationship holds true across various bank types, including market‐focused, geographically diversified, publicly listed, and private institutions. However…
Waste-to-energy and its asymmetric impact on ecological footprint
As global populations grow and economies expand, the surge in municipal solid waste presents a significant challenge to ecological sustainability. Waste management involves a critical trade-off between traditional methods, such as landfilling and combustion, and the alternative of waste-to-energy (WtE) systems, which convert waste into usable energy. However, the environmental impact of these methods is not uniform, demonstrating an asymmetric ef…
The Analysis of Relationships Among Tourism, Globalization, and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia
Sustainable development aims to balance current and future needs across economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This study explores the relationships among tourist numbers (Tr), sustainability (SDG), and globalization, divided into economic (GOE), social (GOS), and political (GOC) dimensions, with COVID-19 (CO) included as a short-term factor. Using annual panel data from ASEAN countries (2001–2022), panel unit root, cointegration, and au…
Achieving sustainable food security
Analysis of the Impact of Economic Policies on Climate Change Mitigation
Climate change mitigation requires adequate insights into the underlying causes to ensure environmental sustainability. To attain macroeconomic goals, countries deploy economic policies such as fiscal policy tools (government expenditure and taxation), monetary policy tools (real interest rate and money supply), and external policy variables (foreign trade and foreign direct investment). Though these tools/variables have the capacity to enhance s…
The impact of energy poverty on the aggregate and disaggregate material footprints in BRICS
This study aims to examine the impact of energy poverty on the aggregate and disaggregate material footprint components such as biomass, fossil fuel, metal ores and non-metallic minerals while considering the economic growth and tourism development during 2000–2014 for the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). By applying econometric tools, the study confirms a positive and significant impact of energy poverty on aggre…
The Effects of Air Pollution on Tourism in Thailand
Air pollution not only affects people's health but also tourism especially in Thailand because it is the most important industry in Thailand. Therefore, this research aims to examine the effects of air pollution on the number of tourists using particulate matter (PM10) data as the proxy for air pollution and the number of tourists staying at accommodation establishments in the province as the agent of the number of tourists (Tourist). Furthermore…
Comparative Analysis of Technological Innovation in Chinese Cities
To better promote the transformation of the economic development mode and improve technological innovation, the Chinese central government adjusted the performance assessment criteria for local officials.This study explores whether the government green performance assessment can serve to promote technological innovation.Data from 288 Chinese cities from between 2009 and 2018 is taken as the sample and the fixed effects model is utilized as the me…
Role of Energy Consumption on the Environmental Impact of Sectoral Growth in Malaysia
Although some studies have posited that sectoral growth could influence environmental pollution through energy consumption, the issue has not been explicitly and empirically investigated in the carbon-neutrality literature. Hence, this analysis fills the gap in the extant literature by employing the interaction models to ascertain the moderating role of energy consumption on the environmental impacts of the industrial, agricultural, financial, an…
The threshold effect of energy intensity on the emission-growth nexus in Malaysia
Does tourism promote green growth? A panel data analysis
Environmental degradation, economic growth, and energy consumption
The growth‐energy‐environment relationship has been debated over the last decades. The devastating impacts of economic growth and energy consumption on the environment have concerned environmental stakeholders worldwide. Although education has been identified as an essential determinant of environmental degradation, its moderating role is overlooked in the literature. This study examines the direct and moderating roles of education in the growth‐…
Agricultural Digitization and Zhongyong Philosophy
An innovative social enterprise
This research examines the roles of an arts hub in George Town, Malaysia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Operating largely as a social enterprise, it has fostered links between the local cultural sector, international arts actors, local communities, and tourists. But this innovative approach does encounter some challenges. This research employed a structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews with key persons, to understand the adopted manageme…
Entrepreneurial orientation of traditional and modern cultural organisations
George Town World Heritage Site in Penang, Malaysia is well-endowed with creative and cultural resources, and has recently witnessed a rise in relevant rise in creative and cultural activities. This study examines how 'innovation culture' is inculcated and embedded within two local organisations with distinct approaches to innovation. This examination adopts and adapts the concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation, using three constructs: i) innovat…
The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis
Asymmetric inflation hedge properties of housing in Malaysia
The influence of economic growth, urbanization, trade openness, financial development, and renewable energy on pollution in Europe
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Stock Market Development
Developing countries are witnessing changes in the composition of capital flows in their economies due to the expansion and integration of the world equity market. This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the stock market development in Pakistan. The key interest revolves around the complementary or substitution role of foreign direct investment to the development of stock market. ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegr…
Regional House Prices and the Ripple Effect in Malaysia
This paper applies univariate and panel Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to the ratio of the regional to national house price to examine the ripple effect for five different housing price indices (aggregate housing, detached housing, semi-detached housing, terrace housing and high-rise housing) across 14 regional locations in Malaysia. Segmentation is restricted to a small group of states across most hou…
Does financial development increase energy consumption? The role of industrialization and urbanization in Tunisia
Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Pakistan
CO2 emissions, electricity consumption and output in Asean
Asian Financial Crisis, Avian Flu and Terrorist Threats
International visitor arrivals from Malaysia's 10 major source markets are examined using Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to ascertain whether shocks to the time path of tourist arrivals are permanent or transitory. The LM unit root test with one break is able to reject the unit root null for between 60% of source markets where the break is specified as in the intercept and 90% of source markets where t…
Will Inflation Increase Crime Rate? New Evidence from Bounds and Modified Wald Tests
This paper employs the modified Wald (MWALD) causality test to re-examine the relationship between crime and its determinants (inflation and unemployment) in the United States from 1960 to 2005. Bounds test approach is employed to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship. The empirical evidence suggests that inflation and crime rates are cointegrated with a positive relationship. Moreover, the causal link is from inflation and unemplo…
Regional House Prices and the Ripple Effect in Malaysia
This paper applies univariate and panel Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to the ratio of the regional to national house price to examine the ripple effect for five different housing price indices (aggregate housing, detached housing, semi-detached housing, terrace housing and high-rise housing) across 14 regional locations in Malaysia. Segmentation is restricted to a small group of states across most hou…
Environmental degradation, economic growth, and energy consumption
The growth‐energy‐environment relationship has been debated over the last decades. The devastating impacts of economic growth and energy consumption on the environment have concerned environmental stakeholders worldwide. Although education has been identified as an essential determinant of environmental degradation, its moderating role is overlooked in the literature. This study examines the direct and moderating roles of education in the growth‐…
Asian Financial Crisis, Avian Flu and Terrorist Threats
International visitor arrivals from Malaysia's 10 major source markets are examined using Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to ascertain whether shocks to the time path of tourist arrivals are permanent or transitory. The LM unit root test with one break is able to reject the unit root null for between 60% of source markets where the break is specified as in the intercept and 90% of source markets where t…
Analysis of the Impact of Economic Policies on Climate Change Mitigation
Climate change mitigation requires adequate insights into the underlying causes to ensure environmental sustainability. To attain macroeconomic goals, countries deploy economic policies such as fiscal policy tools (government expenditure and taxation), monetary policy tools (real interest rate and money supply), and external policy variables (foreign trade and foreign direct investment). Though these tools/variables have the capacity to enhance s…
Comparative Analysis of Technological Innovation in Chinese Cities
To better promote the transformation of the economic development mode and improve technological innovation, the Chinese central government adjusted the performance assessment criteria for local officials.This study explores whether the government green performance assessment can serve to promote technological innovation.Data from 288 Chinese cities from between 2009 and 2018 is taken as the sample and the fixed effects model is utilized as the me…
Asymmetric inflation hedge properties of housing in Malaysia
Will Inflation Increase Crime Rate? New Evidence from Bounds and Modified Wald Tests
This paper employs the modified Wald (MWALD) causality test to re-examine the relationship between crime and its determinants (inflation and unemployment) in the United States from 1960 to 2005. Bounds test approach is employed to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship. The empirical evidence suggests that inflation and crime rates are cointegrated with a positive relationship. Moreover, the causal link is from inflation and unemplo…
Will Inflation Increase Crime Rate? New Evidence from Bounds and Modified Wald Tests
This paper employs the modified Wald (MWALD) causality test to re-examine the relationship between crime and its determinants (inflation and unemployment) in the United States from 1960 to 2005. Bounds test approach is employed to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship. The empirical evidence suggests that inflation and crime rates are cointegrated with a positive relationship. Moreover, the causal link is from inflation and unemplo…
Asian Financial Crisis, Avian Flu and Terrorist Threats
International visitor arrivals from Malaysia's 10 major source markets are examined using Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to ascertain whether shocks to the time path of tourist arrivals are permanent or transitory. The LM unit root test with one break is able to reject the unit root null for between 60% of source markets where the break is specified as in the intercept and 90% of source markets where t…
CO2 emissions, electricity consumption and output in Asean
Does financial development increase energy consumption? The role of industrialization and urbanization in Tunisia
Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Pakistan
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Stock Market Development
Developing countries are witnessing changes in the composition of capital flows in their economies due to the expansion and integration of the world equity market. This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the stock market development in Pakistan. The key interest revolves around the complementary or substitution role of foreign direct investment to the development of stock market. ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegr…
Regional House Prices and the Ripple Effect in Malaysia
This paper applies univariate and panel Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to the ratio of the regional to national house price to examine the ripple effect for five different housing price indices (aggregate housing, detached housing, semi-detached housing, terrace housing and high-rise housing) across 14 regional locations in Malaysia. Segmentation is restricted to a small group of states across most hou…
The influence of economic growth, urbanization, trade openness, financial development, and renewable energy on pollution in Europe
The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis
Asymmetric inflation hedge properties of housing in Malaysia
Entrepreneurial orientation of traditional and modern cultural organisations
George Town World Heritage Site in Penang, Malaysia is well-endowed with creative and cultural resources, and has recently witnessed a rise in relevant rise in creative and cultural activities. This study examines how 'innovation culture' is inculcated and embedded within two local organisations with distinct approaches to innovation. This examination adopts and adapts the concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation, using three constructs: i) innovat…
An innovative social enterprise
This research examines the roles of an arts hub in George Town, Malaysia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Operating largely as a social enterprise, it has fostered links between the local cultural sector, international arts actors, local communities, and tourists. But this innovative approach does encounter some challenges. This research employed a structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews with key persons, to understand the adopted manageme…
Role of Energy Consumption on the Environmental Impact of Sectoral Growth in Malaysia
Although some studies have posited that sectoral growth could influence environmental pollution through energy consumption, the issue has not been explicitly and empirically investigated in the carbon-neutrality literature. Hence, this analysis fills the gap in the extant literature by employing the interaction models to ascertain the moderating role of energy consumption on the environmental impacts of the industrial, agricultural, financial, an…
The threshold effect of energy intensity on the emission-growth nexus in Malaysia
Does tourism promote green growth? A panel data analysis
Environmental degradation, economic growth, and energy consumption
The growth‐energy‐environment relationship has been debated over the last decades. The devastating impacts of economic growth and energy consumption on the environment have concerned environmental stakeholders worldwide. Although education has been identified as an essential determinant of environmental degradation, its moderating role is overlooked in the literature. This study examines the direct and moderating roles of education in the growth‐…
Agricultural Digitization and Zhongyong Philosophy
The impact of energy poverty on the aggregate and disaggregate material footprints in BRICS
This study aims to examine the impact of energy poverty on the aggregate and disaggregate material footprint components such as biomass, fossil fuel, metal ores and non-metallic minerals while considering the economic growth and tourism development during 2000–2014 for the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). By applying econometric tools, the study confirms a positive and significant impact of energy poverty on aggre…
The Effects of Air Pollution on Tourism in Thailand
Air pollution not only affects people's health but also tourism especially in Thailand because it is the most important industry in Thailand. Therefore, this research aims to examine the effects of air pollution on the number of tourists using particulate matter (PM10) data as the proxy for air pollution and the number of tourists staying at accommodation establishments in the province as the agent of the number of tourists (Tourist). Furthermore…
Comparative Analysis of Technological Innovation in Chinese Cities
To better promote the transformation of the economic development mode and improve technological innovation, the Chinese central government adjusted the performance assessment criteria for local officials.This study explores whether the government green performance assessment can serve to promote technological innovation.Data from 288 Chinese cities from between 2009 and 2018 is taken as the sample and the fixed effects model is utilized as the me…
The Analysis of Relationships Among Tourism, Globalization, and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia
Sustainable development aims to balance current and future needs across economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This study explores the relationships among tourist numbers (Tr), sustainability (SDG), and globalization, divided into economic (GOE), social (GOS), and political (GOC) dimensions, with COVID-19 (CO) included as a short-term factor. Using annual panel data from ASEAN countries (2001–2022), panel unit root, cointegration, and au…
Achieving sustainable food security
Analysis of the Impact of Economic Policies on Climate Change Mitigation
Climate change mitigation requires adequate insights into the underlying causes to ensure environmental sustainability. To attain macroeconomic goals, countries deploy economic policies such as fiscal policy tools (government expenditure and taxation), monetary policy tools (real interest rate and money supply), and external policy variables (foreign trade and foreign direct investment). Though these tools/variables have the capacity to enhance s…
Where Informal Institutions Lead, Innovation Follows
This paper examines the impact of local creative culture on bank financial innovation within the framework of informal institutional theory. Using comprehensive panel data from 2017 to 2022, we reveal that banks located in highly creative environments exhibit greater financial innovation. This relationship holds true across various bank types, including market‐focused, geographically diversified, publicly listed, and private institutions. However…
Waste-to-energy and its asymmetric impact on ecological footprint
As global populations grow and economies expand, the surge in municipal solid waste presents a significant challenge to ecological sustainability. Waste management involves a critical trade-off between traditional methods, such as landfilling and combustion, and the alternative of waste-to-energy (WtE) systems, which convert waste into usable energy. However, the environmental impact of these methods is not uniform, demonstrating an asymmetric ef…
Economics (19 works) · Econometrics (12 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (12 works) · Business (7 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (7 works) · Macroeconomics (7 works) · Cointegration (6 works) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (6 works) · Natural resource economics (6 works) · Sustainability (6 works)