Siong Hook Law

Biographic Data

ID6278726
NAMESiong Hook Law
GIVEN NAMESSiong Hook
FAMILY NAMELaw
SIGNATURELAW S H
AFFILIATIONSUniversiti Putra Malaysia
ORCID0000-0002-6058-4883
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Digital Financial Literacy

    Open AccessJanani M Janani M, Janani M et al.ARTICLEPertanika Journal of Social…2026

    This study combines a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis to provide both qualitative and quantitative insights in the field of digital financial literacy (DFL), which integrates the concepts of financial literacy and digital literacy. With the increasing penetration of digital devices and internet usage, the need for digital financial literacy among individuals has become more noticeable. The study draws on data collected fro…

  • Green Power

    Open AccessLim Thye Goh, Siong Hook Law et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2025

    This study examined the impact of renewable energy adoption on the attractiveness of Asian emerging economies to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) amidst 2020s global economic upheavals. Utilising an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration bounds testing approach to analyse data from 1971 to 2020, the findings revealed a significant positive correlation between renewable energy use and long-term FDI inflows, particularly in Indonesia an…

  • Institutional quality, FDI inflows, human capital development and poverty

    Open AccessLim Thye Goh, Irwan Trinugroho et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2024

    Purpose The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of institutional quality, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and human capital development on Indonesia’s poverty rate. Design/methodology/approach The quantile regression on data ranging from 1984 to 2019 was used to capture the relationship between the impact of the independent variables (FDI inflows, institutional quality and human capital development) on Indonesia’s poverty…

  • Demand for inbound educational tourism

    Chor Foon Tang, Siong Hook Law et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2023

    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…

  • High Technology Trade and the Roles of Absorptive Capabilities in Malaysia

    Open AccessLeonard Fong Litt Lam, Siong Hook Law et al.ARTICLEMillennial Asia2022References: 11

    This article analyses the importance of high-technology trade as a channel of economic growth to ease Malaysia out of the middle-income trap. This study also wonders upon the missing absorptive capabilities that validate the likelihoods of dismal gross domestic product (GDP) growth since the 1990s. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach and fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) estimator as robustness checks, this study …

  • What Can We Learn from Global and Regional Rankings of Countries

    Open AccessHüseyin Aytuğ, Siong Hook Law et al.ARTICLEMillennial Asia2018References: 5

    We use principal component analysis (PCA) to extract the essential information contained in 10 different country rankings, measuring different country characteristics such as GDP per capita, human development, quality of governance, environmental quality and business environment. Globally, the first principal component accounts for about 82 per cent of the variation across countries, and the first three principal components account for over 92 pe…

  • Financial development and carbon dioxide emissions in Nigeria

    Open AccessHaji Suleman Ali, Hamisu Sadi Ali et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2018Cited by: 4

  • Tourism and CO2 emissions nexus in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessReza Sherafatian-Jahromi, Mohd Shahwahid Othman et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2017

  • Dynamic implication of biomass energy consumption on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessHaji Suleman Ali, Hamisu Sadi Ali et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2016

  • The impact of health financing and CO2 emission on health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAbdalla Sirag, Norashidah Mohamed Nor et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2016References: 5

  • Does too much finance harm economic growth?

    Siong Hook Law, Nirvikar SinghARTICLEJournal of Banking & Finance2014

  • House prices and bank credits in Malaysia

    Mansor H Ibrahim, Siong Hook LawARTICLEHabitat International2014Cited by: 3References: 22

  • Nonlinear dynamics of the finance-inequality nexus in developing countries

    Open AccessHui-Boon Tan, Siong Hook LawARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2011Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Private capital flows to developing countries

    Chee‐Keong Choong, Chee-Keong Choong et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Asia Pacific Economy2010References: 7

    The relationship between private capital flows and growth has been examined extensively in the literature, yet numerous controversies remain. This study examines the relationships among private capital flows (foreign direct investment and portfolio investment), financial development and economic performance in a panel of developing countries over the period 1983–2006, by employing generalized method of moments (GMM) panel data analysis. We find t…

  • Financial development and openness

    Open AccessBadi H Baltagi, Panicos O Demetriades et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2008Cited by: 26References: 5