The Department’s faculty members are engaged in research addressing the following areas:
• Business, entrepreneurship and personal finance;
• Climate change;
• Energy sector;
• Gender, family changes, and migration
• Global and regional development;
• Public governance;
• Social and public policies;
• Urban, environment, and sustainability;
• Youth, employment, and social mobilities
The Department's faculty are widely published in distinguished international journals and with leading publishing houses.
The Department holds regular research seminars and hosts various research seminars provided by local and international visiting scholars.
| Year | Author / Editor | Title | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Zhu, A. Y. F., Chan, A. L. S.,& Chou, K. L | Creative social media use and political participation in young people: The moderation and mediation role of online political expression |  |
| 2019 | Woo, C.K., J. Zarnikau, C.H. Tsai and S. Zhu | Cost-effectiveness of a modest expansion of renewable capacity in Texas. The Electricity Journal, 33, Article 106696. | |
| 2019 | Zarnikau, J., S. Zhu, C.K. Woo and C.H. Tsai | Texas’s operating reserve demand curve’s generation investment incentive. (Forthcoming) | |
| 2019 | Lee, S.Y., & Chou, K.L. | Assessing the relative contribution of social exclusion, income-poverty, and financial strain on depressive symptoms among older people in Hong Kong | |
| 2019 | Chiu, M.M., C.K. Woo, A. Shiu and B. Luo | Reducing costly free-rider effects via OASIS | |
| 2019 | Woo, C.K., I. Milstein, A. Tishler and J. Zarnikau | A wholesale electricity market design sans missing money and price manipulation | |
| 2019 | Woo, C.K., & Zarnikau, J. | Renewable energy's vanishing premium in Texas's retail electricity pricing plans. | |
| 2019 | Fox Z.Y. H, George C.S. Lin, Anthony G.O. Yeh, Shenjinh He, Xingjian Liu | Reluctant policy innovation through profit concession and informality tolerance: A strategic relational view of policy entrepreneurship in China's urban redevelopment. | |
| 2019 | Xiao, H., Wang, X. & Liu, C. | Budgetary punctuations: A fiscal management perspective | |
| 2019 | Woo, C.K., & Zarnikau, J. | A nice electricity market design | |