CALL FOR PAPERS Business services in financial globalisation Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018 (Cologne, Germany, 24-28 July 2018) Organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University), Karen Lai (National University of Singapore) Work on financial geography recognises the important ‘compact’ between financial services and advanced business services (ABS; such as accountancy, law and management consultancy). Put simply, financial globalization... Continue Reading →
First PhD student’s oral defence
A great moment last week as I attended the oral defence of my first PhD student, Yvonne Guo, at the NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (co-supervised with Professor Ramesh). She fielded the questions really well on various aspects of 'Midshore Financial Centres and the Emerging Tax Transparency Regime'. I very much enjoyed... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 