Chor Foon Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 2034060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chor Foon Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chor Foon |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2242-9222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bibliometric review
Purpose The primary objective of this study is to provide insights into the current state of research on the economic impacts of natural disasters on development and growth. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a bibliometric analysis focusing on leading authors, journals, countries, the most frequently cited documents and keywords in the domain of the economic impacts of natural disasters on development and growth. Using the Scopus d…
Towards Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa continues to grapple with limited access to modern energy, environmental degradation, socio‐economic inequality, and weak institutional frameworks. These issues collectively pose a challenge to the continent's progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This study investigates the influence of clean energy adoption, natural endowments, and socio‐economic dynamics on sustainable development in …
Human capital agglomeration, urbanisation and housing prices in China
Purpose We examine how human capital agglomeration and urbanisation jointly shape housing price dynamics in China. We aim to disentangle their distinct mechanisms and assess whether the effects of human capital concentration are consistent across different market segments. Design/methodology/approach Using balanced panel data from 31 Chinese provinces between 2002 and 2021, this study applies quantile regression techniques to capture the heteroge…
Exploring the Role of National Leadership, Education, and Technology in Combating Corruption
Corruption remains a persistent structural impediment to economic performance, undermining growth, distorting resource allocation, and weakening institutional trust. Identifying its key determinants is therefore essential for formulating effective anti-corruption strategies. This study empirically examines the roles of national leadership quality, the rule of law, information and communication technology (ICT), and education in shaping corruption…
Exploring the influence of information and communication technology, national leadership and educational quality on educational tourism demand
This study explores the role of information and communication technology (ICT) development, educational quality, and national leadership in explaining the behaviour of inbound educational tourism in Malaysia. The panel data from 2002 to 2019 across 149 countries that supply educational tourists to Malaysia for higher education were employed, and the censored (Tobit) panel regression analysis was executed in the analysis to strengthen the robustne…
The effects of telecommunication technology and leadership quality on private consumption in Malaysia
We estimate the long-run impacts of telecommunication technologies, information and communication technology (ICT), and national leadership on private consumption in Malaysia. To accomplish this objective, the research employs the unit root and cointegration tests on a quarterly sample from 1995:Q1 to 2020:Q4. Our results show that private consumption, ICT, leadership quality and other determinants are cointegrated. In the long-run, we find that …
Demand for inbound educational tourism
We examine the demand for inbound educational tourism in Malaysia using non-stationary panel data methods. We find that educational tourism demand is influenced by income, costs of living, price of education, political stability and academic quality. However, the impact of income on demand is non-linear. Income has a significant positive impact on demand at the initial stage but this impact becomes negative after the threshold. Additionally, whil…
The threshold effects of educational tourism on economic growth
This study examines the effects of educational tourism and other variables on economic growth using a balanced panel dataset comprising 61 countries. We use the threshold regression model with three different threshold variables (i.e. educational tourism, research, and information and communication technology) to estimate non-monotonic mediating effects on economic growth. Our findings suggest that educational tourism has a significant positive i…
How Do Natural Disasters Influence the Rate of Poverty
This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between poverty, growth, financial development, and natural disasters in the Philippines from 1970 to 2014. The Toda-Yamamoto version of the Granger causality test was employed. We find that financial development, poverty, and economic growth were bidirectionally causal. However, we noted a unidirectional Granger causality from natural disasters to financial development and economic growth. I…
The impacts of governance and institutions on inbound tourism demand
This study explores the impact of governance and institutions on inbound tourism demand in Malaysia using a dynamic panel data approach for 45 tourism source countries over the period 2005–2015. The results show that institutions play a very important role in explaining the behaviour of inbound tourism demand. To obtain a better picture, we investigate the response of international tourists to disaggregated institutional quality. We find that int…
A note on the interaction between stock prices and exchange rates in Middle-East economies
Ample studies have been conducted to analyse the interaction between stock prices and exchange rates in developed and developing countries. However, studies on Middle-East economies are limited. Moreover, many existing studies test for Granger causality in a bi-variate setting which in turn leads to conflicting causality results. The goal of this study is to investigate the causal interaction between stock prices and exchange rates empirically in…
Low fertility in Malaysia
Educational tourism and its implications on economic growth in Malaysia
The effect of educational tourism on Malaysia’s economic growth is examined in this study by extending the Solow growth model. This study uses the sample from 2002:Q1 to 2014:Q4. The newly developed Bayer–Hanck combined tests for cointegration and the Granger causality test were employed to examine the long-run and causal relationships among the variables. The empirical findings suggest that economic growth, educational tourism, and other determi…
The impact of energy consumption, income and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam
Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis in Malaysia
This article examines the tourism-led growth (TLG) hypothesis in Malaysia based upon quarterly data from 1991:Q1 to 2014:Q1. The Johansen-Juselius cointegration and the regime shift cointegration tests consistently show evidence of cointegration. In addition, we find evidence of unidirectional causality from tourism to economic growth in Malaysia. Furthermore, the rolling Granger causality test confirms that the TLG hypothesis is generally valid …
Does tourism effectively stimulate Malaysia's economic growth
The effects of oil and non-oil exports on economic growth
This study attempts to re-investigate the role of oil and non-oil exports in economic growth in Iran using the multivariate cointegration and Granger causality methods. This study covers the annual data from 1970 to 2008. Throughout this study, our empirical results indicate that the variables are cointegrated and the Granger causality test reveals evidence of uni-directional causality from oil and non-oil exports to economic growth. Therefore, w…
The impacts of transport energy consumption, foreign direct investment and income on CO2 emissions in Asean-5 economies
The Linkage Between Stock Price and Economic Growth in Australia
This study attempts to re-investigate the linkage between stock prices and economic growth in Australia using the cointegration and Granger causality tests. The study covers the quarterly data from 1960:Q1 to 2008:Q4. The cointegration test exhibits that the variables are cointegrated, implying that stock prices and economic growth in Australia are moving together in the long-run. Nevertheless, the TYDL causality test suggests that there is only …
How stable is the tourism-led growth hypothesis in Malaysia? Evidence from disaggregated tourism markets
Old Wine in New Bottles
The primary objective of this study is to re-examine the convergence hypothesis for Malaysia's tourism markets for the period January 1995–December 2008. This study employs the recently developed Kapetanios (Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2005, 26(1), 123–133) m-breaks unit root test to assess the possibility of convergence of Malaysia's tourism markets. The results, however, suggest that Malaysia's tourism markets are not consistently convergi…
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…
Does tourism effectively stimulate Malaysia's economic growth
How stable is the tourism-led growth hypothesis in Malaysia? Evidence from disaggregated tourism markets
Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis in Malaysia
This article examines the tourism-led growth (TLG) hypothesis in Malaysia based upon quarterly data from 1991:Q1 to 2014:Q1. The Johansen-Juselius cointegration and the regime shift cointegration tests consistently show evidence of cointegration. In addition, we find evidence of unidirectional causality from tourism to economic growth in Malaysia. Furthermore, the rolling Granger causality test confirms that the TLG hypothesis is generally valid …
Old Wine in New Bottles
The primary objective of this study is to re-examine the convergence hypothesis for Malaysia's tourism markets for the period January 1995–December 2008. This study employs the recently developed Kapetanios (Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2005, 26(1), 123–133) m-breaks unit root test to assess the possibility of convergence of Malaysia's tourism markets. The results, however, suggest that Malaysia's tourism markets are not consistently convergi…
The impacts of governance and institutions on inbound tourism demand
This study explores the impact of governance and institutions on inbound tourism demand in Malaysia using a dynamic panel data approach for 45 tourism source countries over the period 2005–2015. The results show that institutions play a very important role in explaining the behaviour of inbound tourism demand. To obtain a better picture, we investigate the response of international tourists to disaggregated institutional quality. We find that int…
Educational tourism and its implications on economic growth in Malaysia
The effect of educational tourism on Malaysia’s economic growth is examined in this study by extending the Solow growth model. This study uses the sample from 2002:Q1 to 2014:Q4. The newly developed Bayer–Hanck combined tests for cointegration and the Granger causality test were employed to examine the long-run and causal relationships among the variables. The empirical findings suggest that economic growth, educational tourism, and other determi…
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…
Old Wine in New Bottles
The primary objective of this study is to re-examine the convergence hypothesis for Malaysia's tourism markets for the period January 1995–December 2008. This study employs the recently developed Kapetanios (Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2005, 26(1), 123–133) m-breaks unit root test to assess the possibility of convergence of Malaysia's tourism markets. The results, however, suggest that Malaysia's tourism markets are not consistently convergi…
The impacts of transport energy consumption, foreign direct investment and income on CO2 emissions in Asean-5 economies
The Linkage Between Stock Price and Economic Growth in Australia
This study attempts to re-investigate the linkage between stock prices and economic growth in Australia using the cointegration and Granger causality tests. The study covers the quarterly data from 1960:Q1 to 2008:Q4. The cointegration test exhibits that the variables are cointegrated, implying that stock prices and economic growth in Australia are moving together in the long-run. Nevertheless, the TYDL causality test suggests that there is only …
How stable is the tourism-led growth hypothesis in Malaysia? Evidence from disaggregated tourism markets
The effects of oil and non-oil exports on economic growth
This study attempts to re-investigate the role of oil and non-oil exports in economic growth in Iran using the multivariate cointegration and Granger causality methods. This study covers the annual data from 1970 to 2008. Throughout this study, our empirical results indicate that the variables are cointegrated and the Granger causality test reveals evidence of uni-directional causality from oil and non-oil exports to economic growth. Therefore, w…
The impact of energy consumption, income and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam
Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis in Malaysia
This article examines the tourism-led growth (TLG) hypothesis in Malaysia based upon quarterly data from 1991:Q1 to 2014:Q1. The Johansen-Juselius cointegration and the regime shift cointegration tests consistently show evidence of cointegration. In addition, we find evidence of unidirectional causality from tourism to economic growth in Malaysia. Furthermore, the rolling Granger causality test confirms that the TLG hypothesis is generally valid …
Does tourism effectively stimulate Malaysia's economic growth
A note on the interaction between stock prices and exchange rates in Middle-East economies
Ample studies have been conducted to analyse the interaction between stock prices and exchange rates in developed and developing countries. However, studies on Middle-East economies are limited. Moreover, many existing studies test for Granger causality in a bi-variate setting which in turn leads to conflicting causality results. The goal of this study is to investigate the causal interaction between stock prices and exchange rates empirically in…
Low fertility in Malaysia
Educational tourism and its implications on economic growth in Malaysia
The effect of educational tourism on Malaysia’s economic growth is examined in this study by extending the Solow growth model. This study uses the sample from 2002:Q1 to 2014:Q4. The newly developed Bayer–Hanck combined tests for cointegration and the Granger causality test were employed to examine the long-run and causal relationships among the variables. The empirical findings suggest that economic growth, educational tourism, and other determi…
The impacts of governance and institutions on inbound tourism demand
This study explores the impact of governance and institutions on inbound tourism demand in Malaysia using a dynamic panel data approach for 45 tourism source countries over the period 2005–2015. The results show that institutions play a very important role in explaining the behaviour of inbound tourism demand. To obtain a better picture, we investigate the response of international tourists to disaggregated institutional quality. We find that int…
How Do Natural Disasters Influence the Rate of Poverty
This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between poverty, growth, financial development, and natural disasters in the Philippines from 1970 to 2014. The Toda-Yamamoto version of the Granger causality test was employed. We find that financial development, poverty, and economic growth were bidirectionally causal. However, we noted a unidirectional Granger causality from natural disasters to financial development and economic growth. I…
The threshold effects of educational tourism on economic growth
This study examines the effects of educational tourism and other variables on economic growth using a balanced panel dataset comprising 61 countries. We use the threshold regression model with three different threshold variables (i.e. educational tourism, research, and information and communication technology) to estimate non-monotonic mediating effects on economic growth. Our findings suggest that educational tourism has a significant positive i…
Demand for inbound educational tourism
We examine the demand for inbound educational tourism in Malaysia using non-stationary panel data methods. We find that educational tourism demand is influenced by income, costs of living, price of education, political stability and academic quality. However, the impact of income on demand is non-linear. Income has a significant positive impact on demand at the initial stage but this impact becomes negative after the threshold. Additionally, whil…
The effects of telecommunication technology and leadership quality on private consumption in Malaysia
We estimate the long-run impacts of telecommunication technologies, information and communication technology (ICT), and national leadership on private consumption in Malaysia. To accomplish this objective, the research employs the unit root and cointegration tests on a quarterly sample from 1995:Q1 to 2020:Q4. Our results show that private consumption, ICT, leadership quality and other determinants are cointegrated. In the long-run, we find that …
Exploring the influence of information and communication technology, national leadership and educational quality on educational tourism demand
This study explores the role of information and communication technology (ICT) development, educational quality, and national leadership in explaining the behaviour of inbound educational tourism in Malaysia. The panel data from 2002 to 2019 across 149 countries that supply educational tourists to Malaysia for higher education were employed, and the censored (Tobit) panel regression analysis was executed in the analysis to strengthen the robustne…
Bibliometric review
Purpose The primary objective of this study is to provide insights into the current state of research on the economic impacts of natural disasters on development and growth. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a bibliometric analysis focusing on leading authors, journals, countries, the most frequently cited documents and keywords in the domain of the economic impacts of natural disasters on development and growth. Using the Scopus d…
Towards Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa continues to grapple with limited access to modern energy, environmental degradation, socio‐economic inequality, and weak institutional frameworks. These issues collectively pose a challenge to the continent's progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This study investigates the influence of clean energy adoption, natural endowments, and socio‐economic dynamics on sustainable development in …
Human capital agglomeration, urbanisation and housing prices in China
Purpose We examine how human capital agglomeration and urbanisation jointly shape housing price dynamics in China. We aim to disentangle their distinct mechanisms and assess whether the effects of human capital concentration are consistent across different market segments. Design/methodology/approach Using balanced panel data from 31 Chinese provinces between 2002 and 2021, this study applies quantile regression techniques to capture the heteroge…
Exploring the Role of National Leadership, Education, and Technology in Combating Corruption
Corruption remains a persistent structural impediment to economic performance, undermining growth, distorting resource allocation, and weakening institutional trust. Identifying its key determinants is therefore essential for formulating effective anti-corruption strategies. This study empirically examines the roles of national leadership quality, the rule of law, information and communication technology (ICT), and education in shaping corruption…
Economics (17 works) · Econometrics (14 works) · Cointegration (12 works) · Granger causality (11 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (9 works) · Macroeconomics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Tourism (9 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (7 works) · Business (6 works)