Have you ever wondered whether individuals born in the year of the Dragon are truly blessed? Or why you can't find a taxi when you need one? What about the effects of superstitious beliefs on housing prices? Kiasunomics© explores these issues and more in a series of stories through the lens of Teng, the protagonist of this book. Told in a conversational story-telling style yet grounded on rigorous research, the book explains the influences and outcomes of the decisions we make, using simpl...

Have you ever wondered whether the Build-To-Order scheme affects marriage and divorce? Do you think haze affects physical and intellectual characteristics of babies? Is there a relationship between foreign buyers and property transactions? Are women more strategic taxi drivers? These and more are discussed in Kiasunomics©3 in an easy-to-understand manner.Each chapter, written simply and light-heartedly, is self-contained and covers a different research topic conducted at the Nation...

Have you ever wondered how one can save from taxi rides during surge pricing? Why you would shop more under sunny weather? What effects does a bankrupt neighbour have on residents living in the estate? How do people perceive risks during the coronavirus pandemic? Kiasunomics©2 explores these issues and more in a light-hearted and easy-to-understand manner, by showing the economic ramifications of individual choices through the lens of Teng, the protagonist of this book, and his family and ...

This book is dedicated to showcasing the importance of household financial management through the lens of academic research, with the goal of enhancing the financial well-being of individuals.Through an exploration of households' financial choices over their lifecycle, the book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of households' financial decision-making processes, grounded in economic models, policies, and data.This holistic perspective encompasses an awareness of...

Household finance studies is a relatively recent field, exploring a growing understanding of how households make financial decisions relating to the functions of consumption, payment, risk management, borrowing and investing; how institutions provide goods and services to satisfy these financial functions of households; and how interventions by firms, governments and other parties affect the provision of financial services. This timely book analyses existing findings about household behavi...

On March 12th 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) declared the spreading of the new virus, 2019-nCoV, a pandemic. In Asia, the virus, more commonly referred to as COVID-19, has been spreading since the end of December. To contain the public health threat, almost all countries enforced a variety of measures, including lockdowns, to minimize face-to-face human interactions between the infected and the susceptible.While these vigilant measures save lives, they also generate a substantial ne...

Have you ever wondered how one can save from taxi rides during surge pricing? Why you would shop more under sunny weather? What effects does a bankrupt neighbour have on residents living in the estate? How do people perceive risks during the coronavirus pandemic? Kiasunomics©2 explores these issues and more in a light-hearted and easy-to-understand manner, by showing the economic ramifications of individual choices through the lens of Teng, the protagonist of this book, and his family and ...

Love Will Find Us Again follows the inner journey of Shyam, a middle-aged IT professional caught in the quiet despair of a joyless marriage. Despite a life that checks all the boxes—career, family, stability—he finds himself emotionally adrift and very lonely. That is, until Geetanjali enters his life: a colleague whose gentle presence brings comfort, laughter, and a sense of being seen and loved.Set within the high-pressure corridors of India’s information technology world, the st...