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About Nick: i am an economist based in malaysia. I write about ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL ECONOMY, while sneaking in a pop culture reference or two.

Nicholas Khaw

Sep 30
Sep 30 Malaysia and Regression to the Mean

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Economic Growth

It may be cliché to say, but when you are at the top, the only way to go is down.

Aug 1
Aug 1 The Tortoise Won: The Need to Return to Fundamentals

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Economic Growth, Exports & Imports, Politics

have we – our leaders and ourselves – become complacent as we reaped the rewards of Malaysia’s remarkable development over the past 58 years?

Jul 6
Jul 6 The Incoherence of Blanket Policies in Malaysia

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Politics

The federal government should consider the issue of geographic differentiation of policies, particularly in cases where different geographic locations have vastly different attributes.

Jun 8
Jun 8 The Institutionalization of the Malaysian Mindset

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, culture & identity, Policy

Do we do certain things because we are a product of our environment, regardless of whether that thing we do leads us to optimal or suboptimal outcomes?

May 4
May 4 55, Not Out – Behavioral Finance and the EPF

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Policy

Hyperbolic discounting happens because we consider the future as far less salient than the present. Figuring out if we ourselves are hyperbolic discounters may change what we think about whether we should withdraw our money at 55 or at 60.

Apr 6
Apr 6 Comparing Things – The Counterfactual

Nicholas Khaw
Policy, Malaysia

The reason the counterfactual is important to know in any empirical research project, especially in the social sciences, is that it gives us a basis in which to compare outcomes of policy.

Mar 9
Mar 9 The Self Versus The Community: An Economics Perspective

Nicholas Khaw
Economics

Even pure, free market competition, sans oligopolies and monopolies, may lead to sub optimal outcomes from the perspective of the collective.

Feb 28
Feb 28 Towards Actual Fiscal Reform and Consolidation

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Policy

I have some issues with recent policies in Malaysia, particularly those that deal with government revenue and government expenditure.

Jan 5
Jan 5 Everyone Needs to Calm Down about PT3

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Education, Policy

In principle, I am all in favor of decentralization. I think far too much is centralized in Malaysia, and that includes examinations.

Dec 8
Dec 8 What do Malaysians Want? A (Brief) Investigation into the World Values Survey

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, culture & identity, Gender Inequality, Policy

Nov 3
Nov 3 Towards Logical Consistency: Uber and Immigration

Nicholas Khaw
Malaysia, Politics

if we are to be consistent in our principles behind supporting Uber, we must acknowledge as well that those same principles apply to illegal immigrants in Malaysia.

Oct 6
Oct 6 The Primacy of the Median Voter

Nicholas Khaw
Democracy, Economics, Politics, Malaysia

The reason that the election manifestos are so far apart is not because the Median Voter Theorem does not hold but rather, it is because there is incomplete information and different presumptions by both parties as to “who” exactly the Malaysian Median Voter is.

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Hi, I'm Nick. My research interests and intellectual passions are in the the political economy of economic development particularly related to the long term persistence of historical events and cultural/institutional co-evolutionary factors on economic and public policy outcomes today.

I serve as an economist in Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, where I am Head of Research and Co-Head of Private Markets, Investments. My work covers Investments research, private markets investing (direct and indirect), Dana Impak, Khazanah’s knowledge management and Khazanah’s public policy engagement. I am also a Trustee of the Khazanah Research Institute.

I also write a monthly column for The Edge Malaysia.

 

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