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Malaysia
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
41
Citations
9250
World Ranking
2162
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Malaysia Leader Award

Overview

Chor Foon Tang is affiliated with Universiti Sains Malaysia in Malaysia and has contributed extensively to research in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans various subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Accounting, General Health Professions, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research addresses a range of topics with particular focus on diverse aspects of tourism research, Islamic finance and banking studies, energy, environment, economic growth, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, global health care issues, economic growth and development, as well as fiscal policy and economic growth.

Chor Foon Tang has published in multiple academic venues. The most frequent include:

  • Margin The Journal of Applied Economic Research
  • International Journal of Tourism Policy
  • Energy
  • International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
  • Current Issues in Tourism

Key recent publications by Chor Foon Tang include:

  • Does the quality of institutions and education strengthen the quality of the environment? Evidence from a global perspective, 2020, Energy
  • The Fatality Rate of COVID-19: How Does Education, Health Infrastructure and Institutional Quality Make a Change?, 2022, Margin The Journal of Applied Economic Research
  • Demand for inbound educational tourism: a note on relative differences and non-linear relationships, 2022, Current Issues in Tourism
  • Does Financial Development Moderate the Effects on Growth Volatility? The Experience of Malaysia, 2020, Margin The Journal of Applied Economic Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include Salah Abosedra, Karoon Suksonghong, Bee Wah Tan, Ali Fakih, and Paul Terhemba Iorember.

Best Publications

  • The impact of energy consumption, income and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam

    Chor Foon Tang;Bee Wah Tan

  • The impacts of transport energy consumption, foreign direct investment and income on CO2 emissions in ASEAN-5 economies

    V.G.R. Chandran;Chor Foon Tang

  • The dynamic links between CO2 emissions, economic growth and coal consumption in China and India

    V.G.R. Chandran Govindaraju;Chor Foon Tang

  • Investigating the validity of pollution haven hypothesis in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries

    Usama Al-mulali;Chor Foon Tang

  • Energy consumption and economic growth in Vietnam

    Chor Foon Tang;Bee Wah Tan;Ilhan Ozturk

  • Does tourism effectively stimulate Malaysia's economic growth?

    Chor Foon Tang;Eu Chye Tan

  • Exploring the nexus of electricity consumption, economic growth, energy prices and technology innovation in Malaysia

    Chor Foon Tang;Eu Chye Tan

  • A re-examination of the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Malaysia

    Chor Foon Tang

  • Electricity consumption and economic growth nexus in Portugal using cointegration and causality approaches

    Muhammad Shahbaz;Chor Foon Tang;Muhammad Shahbaz Shabbir

  • Does financial development reduce environmental degradation? Evidence from a panel study of 129 countries.

    Usama Al-mulali;Chor Foon Tang;Ilhan Ozturk

  • The linkages among energy consumption, economic growth, relative price, foreign direct investment, and financial development in Malaysia

    Chor Foon Tang;Bee Wah Tan

  • How stable is the tourism-led growth hypothesis in Malaysia? Evidence from disaggregated tourism markets

    Chor Foon Tang;Eu Chye Tan

  • The impacts of tourism, energy consumption and political instability on economic growth in the MENA countries.

    Chor Foon Tang;Salah Abosedra

  • Estimating the Environment Kuznets Curve hypothesis: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean countries

    Usama Al-mulali;Chor Foon Tang;Ilhan Ozturk

  • Is the energy-led growth hypothesis valid? New evidence from a sample of 85 countries

    Nicholas Apergis;Chor Foon Tang

  • Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis stable for Malaysia? A note

    Hooi Hooi Lean;Chor Foon Tang

  • Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for malaysia? a view from disaggregated tourism markets

    Chor Foon Tang

  • Electricity consumption, income, foreign direct investment, and population in Malaysia

    Chor Foon Tang

  • Small sample evidence on the tourism-led growth hypothesis in Lebanon.

    Chor Foon Tang;Salah Abosedra

  • Will Inflation Increase Crime Rate? New Evidence from Bounds and Modified Wald Tests

    Chor Foon Tang;Hooi Hooi Lean

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilhan Ozturk
Ilhan Ozturk Nişantaşı University
Muhammad Shahbaz
Muhammad Shahbaz Beijing Institute of Technology
Hooi Hooi Lean
Hooi Hooi Lean Universiti Sains Malaysia
Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Aviral Kumar Tiwari Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya
Nicholas Apergis
Nicholas Apergis University of Piraeus
Mohamed El Hedi Arouri
Mohamed El Hedi Arouri Université Côte d'Azur

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