Euston QUAH
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Evaluation of Public Sector Projects, Infrastructure and Programmes, Environmental Economics, Policy and Management, Household Economics, and Law and Economics.

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Professor Euston Quah is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies. He is presently Head of Economics at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

Professor Quah has published widely in the fields of environmental economics, cost-benefit analysis, law and economics, and household economics. Among some of his 40 over peer-reviewed journal publications include Environment and Planning: Series A, and C; Journal of Environmental Management; World Development; Journal of Environmental Law; Journal of Public Economic Theory; American Journal of Economics and Sociology; Applied Economics; and in the International Review of Law and Economics. He has also published five books with major international publishers (such as McGraw-Hill, Edward Elgar, Longman,and Ashgate); the latest with Routledge, UK with a forthcoming title, Cost-Benefit Analysis (5th edition) with internationally renown LSE economist, Professor E.J. Mishan; and a book on Microeconomics: Asian Perspectives with Harvard Professor and former Chairman of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Gregory Mankiw (forthcoming in 2007), to be published by Thomson. One of his books was listed by the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics in 2004, and his works have been reviewed favourably in the Journal of Economic Literature, the Economic Journal, and in the Journal of Labour Economics.

Prof Quah is the Editor (since 2002) of the Singapore Economic Review which was founded 1956; Co-Editor of the journal, International Gambling Studies (since 2005); and former Associate Editor (1990-2000) of the Asian Economic Journal.

In 2005, he was invited as one of twelve eminent speakers in the Asia-Pacific by UNESCAP for the Eminent Environmental Economists Symposium held in conjunction with the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Seoul, Korea. Professor Quah is among the most highly cited university economists in Singapore by the media as well as among the more highly regarded academicians in terms of citation counts from the ISI Social Sciences Citation Index; Google Scholar; and Scopus (Elsevier) indices. In 2005, he received a Research Outcome Award and Recognition by NTU based on, among other select criteria, publication output, citation indices, and qualitative indicators.

Prof Quah was a former NUS Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; Deputy Director of the Public Policy Programme (now called the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy); Founding Director of the Singapore Centre for Policy and Applied Economics; and headed the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has also been an advisor to several Ministries and Statutory Boards in Singapore contributing to studies on cost-benefit analysis of major public projects and programmes in addition to being a consultant to international agencies. Professor Quah's study on air pollution(2003) had been acknowledged as the first of its kind for Singapore by the then Ministry of the Environment as well as the first study on the social cost of smoking in Singapore for the Ministry of Health(findings were published in the Singapore Medical Journal,2002) . He was instrumental in initiating the MSc (Environmental Management) Programme at NUS. In 2006, Prof Quah was the Invited Annual Speaker for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources Senior Management Retreat.

He has served on the Board of Trustees at ISEAS; presently, Vice-President of the Economic Society of Singapore; Council Member of SIIA; and Special Advisor to the Ministry of National Development

• Cost-Benefit Analysis (5th edition)
  Euston Quah and E J Mishan, United Kingdom: Routledge (forthcoming)
• Microeconomics: Asian Perspectives
  Euston Quah and Gregory Mankiw, United States: Thomson (forthcoming 2007)
• Effects of Smoking on Productivity:Estimating Aggregate Production Technology
  Euston Quah, J S Yong, S Saw, and K C Tan, Journal of Developing Areas, forthcoming 2005
• Optimal Bail Setting and Social Welfare
  Euston Quah, K C Tan and B T Lim, The International Review of Law and Economics, forthcoming 2005
• Mothers, Maids and Tutors: An Empirical Evaluation of their Effect on Children's Academic Grades in Singapore
  Euston Quah and Roland Cheo, Education Economics, 2004, Vol. 13 Issue 3
• Modelling Transboundary Air Pollution in Southeast Asia
  Euston Quah and A Siddiqui, Environment and Planning: A; 2004, Vol. 36 pp1411-1425
• Transboundary Pollution in Southeast Asia: The Indonesia Fires
  Euston Quah, World Development, March 2002, Vol. 30 No. 3, pp 429-441
• Economic Impact of Particulate Air Pollution on Health in Singapore
  Euston Quah and L B Tay, Journal of Asian Economics, 2003, Vol. 14, pp 73-90
• The Social Cost of Smoking in Singapore
  Euston Quah, K C Tan, L C Saw and J S Yong, The Singapore Medical Journal, 2002, Vol. 43 No. 7, pp 340-344
• The Price of A View: Some Findings from a Contingent Valuation Study
  Euston Quah and K C Tan, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, Dec 1999
• Cost-Benefit Analysis Under Uncertainty
  Euston Quah and K C Tan, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 1999 No. 3, pp 393-398
• Economics of NIMBY Syndrome: Siting Decisions
  Euston Quah and K C Tan, Environment and Planning: Series C, Vol. 16, 1998, pp 255-264
• Cost-benefit Analysis and the Problem of Nuisance Facilities
  Euston Quah, Journal of International Development, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1994, pp. 79-92
• Value of Children in Compensation for Wrongful Death"
  Euston Quah and W Rieber, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 9, 1989, pp. 165-179
• Country Studies and the Value of Household Production
  Euston Quah, Applied Economics, Vol. 21, No. 12, 1989, pp. 1631-1646.

• Professor, Division of Economics, Head, Economics & Associate Chair (Research), Nanyang Technological University.
• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies.