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Michael Z.F.LI, Associate Professor
Division of Information Technology and Operatoins Management
Director, Nanyang Executive MBA Programme
Nanyang Business School, NTU

Ph.D. (Sauder School of Business - UBC) 1994
Ph.D. (Mathematics - University of Regina) 1989
B.Sc. (Mathematics, Beijing Normal University) 1983

Research Interests

I joined the Nanyang Business School in 1994 and specialize in applied microeconomics, operations research, management studies, and probability theory. Areas of my research interests include:

Applied Microeconomics:

Transport Economics Congestion pricing, airline economics, urban transport studies
Information Economics: Internet economics, e-economy, mechanism design & pricing
Environmental Economics: role of monitoring and self-enforcement
Housing Economics: hedonic pricing models of amenities
Input-Output (I-O) Analysis: industry-level impact studies by using I-O Table
Technology and Innovation: science parks, knowledge spillovers

Operations Research:

Airline Yield Management: seat allocation models, airline spill analysis
Optimal Pricing Models: optimal pricing with purchase restrictions
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): applications to Education and Banking sector

Management Studies:

Performance Evaluations: Tobin's q, DEA, EVA, and other conventional methods
Strategic Alliance: critical factors for sustainable alliances, financial implications of alliances
Data Mining: applications

Probability Theory:

Stability Theorems

My publications have appeared in Canadian Journal of Statistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Handbook of Transport Modelling, Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of Theoretical Probability, Transportation Research B, Transportation Research E, and Transportation Science.

Teaching

I have taught the following courses:

PhD Programme: Seminar in Microeconomics, Contemporary Issues in Economics
Master Programmes (Nanyang MBA, Nanyang EMBA, MSc(Managerial Econ)): Managreial Economics, Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology
Undergraduate: Principle of Economics, Business Statistics, Urban and Transport Economics

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Executive Programmes

Since 1997, through Asian Commerce & Economics Studies (ACES) Centre at Nanyang Business School, I have been involved in organizing/conducting executive programmes for government agenecies, corporations, and professional organizations, including:

Singapore-Shandong Business Council
Hubei Provincial Government
Dalian Municipal Government
China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Pte Ltd
The Chartered Institute of Transport (CIT) - Singapore
Others

Executive programmes and short courses organized in recent years have covered many different themes, such as, economic development and management, corporate management, human resource management, marketing management, tourism management, social security, urban planning, environmental management, and transport & logisitcs management.

Professional Memberships

American Economic Association (AEA)
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS)
Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) (Formerly ATRG)
World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTR Society)
The International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR - a new society)

Contact

S3-B1A-19, Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798

Tel: (65) 6790-4659 (Office)
Fax: 6792-4217 (local) & (65) 6791-3697 (Int'l)
Email: zfli@ntu.edu.sg
Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/zfli/


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