Faculty

Joseph Dennis Alba
Associate Professor
Division of Economics

BS ;MBA Philippines;MA Wichita State;PhD Houston

Email: AJOALBA@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: 67906234
Fax: 6795 5797


HSS-04-79
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332


Teaching Areas


Research Interests

  • International Economics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Development Economics

Selected Publications

Wang, P, Alba, J. D., Park, (2012).  Corporate governance and FDI: Firm Level Evidence from Japanese FDI in the US.  International Review of Economics and Finance (forthcoming).

Alba, Joseph D., Su Zheng, Chia, Wai Mun (2011). Foreign output shocks during the 2008 Financial crisis under different exchange rate regimes. International Review of Economics and Finance 20, 71 – 81.

Hur, Jung, Alba, Joseph D., Park, Donghyun. (2010). Effects of Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Agreements on Trade:A Panel Data Analysis. World Development, 38, 1105 - 1113.

Alba, Joseph D., Park Donghyun, Wang Peiming. (2009). Corporate governance and merger and acquisition (M&A) FDI: firm-level evidence from Japanese FDI into the US. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 18(1), 1-11.

Ho Woon Yee, Wang Peiming, Alba, Joseph D.,. (2009). Acquisition and merger FDI, relative wealth and relative access to bank credit: Evidence from a bivariate zero-inflated count model. International Review of Economics and Finance, 18(1), 26-30.

Hur, Jung, Park Donghyun, Alba Joseph D. (2008). Economic geography in the presence of preferential trade agreements: An empirical analysis of OECD data. Applied Economics, 40(8), 1-11.

Alba, Joseph D., Park Donghyun. (2007). An Empirical Analysis of East Asia's Pre-crisis Daily Exchange Rates. ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 24, 357 ? 371.

Alba, Joseph D., Wang,Peiming, Ho, Woon-Yee . (2007). Relative access to credit, relative wealth and FDI: Firm-Level Evidence from Japanese FDI into the United States. Journal of Economic Integration, 22, 231-255.

Alba, Joseph D., Papell, David H., 2007, Purchasing Power Parity and Country Characteristics: Evidence from Panel Data Tests. Journal of Development Economics 83: 240 – 251.

Chia Wai Mun, Alba, Joseph D., 2006, Terms-of-trade shocks and exchange rate regimes in a smll open economy. Economic Record (Special Issue) 82, S41-S53.

Wang, Peiming, Alba, Joseph D., 2006, A Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Regression Model With Hidden Markov Chain. Economic Letters 92: 209-213.

Alba Joseph D., Park Donghyun, 2005, An Empirical Investigation of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for Turkey. Journal of Policy Modeling 27 (8): 989-1000.

Alba Joseph D., Park Donghyun, 2005, Non-Linear Mean Reversion of Real Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity: Some Evidence from Turkey. Applied Economics Letters 12 (11): 701 – 704.

Alba Joseph D., Park Donghyun, 2003, Purchasing power parity in developing countries: multi-period evidence under the current float, World Development 31 (12): 2049-2060.

Alba, Joseph D., 1999, Are there systematic relationships between China’s and Southeast Asia’s exchange rates? Evidence from daily data. Asian Economic Journal 13: 73 – 92.

Alba Joseph D., Papell, David, 1998, Exchange rate determination and inflation in Southeast Asian countries. Journal of Development Economics 55: 421 -437.

Alba, Joseph D. 1997, Are exchange rate expectations adaptive? Evidence from a structural open economy macro model, Journal of Macroeconomics 19: 555 – 569.

Alba, Joseph D., Papell, David., 1995, Trend breaks and the unit-root hypothesis for newly industrializing countries. Review of International Economics 3: 264 – 274.