BSc (Malaya), MSc (Putra Malaysia), PhD (Malaya), ACCA
Dr Gurcharan Singh is Programme Director for the MSc in Accounting & Finance and the MSc in Finance and Investment. He joined Buckingham in January 2011 from the University of Malaya, where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Financial Accounting and Audit for five years. Before that he worked in industry, as Group Financial Controller at Mangium Industries.
Gurcharan is an active researcher who received a number of research grants in Malaysia. The most recent, in 2008/9, was for a joint project with the University of Sheffield on Coupling and Decoupling Of Selected Asian Markets against Foreign Developed Markets. His areas of expertise are in finance (portfolio management, investment, corporate finance) and operational research (non-parametric data, wavelet decomposition). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting and Finance and was a reviewer for the Asian Journal of Business and Accounting.
Publications
Munisamy, S. & G. Singh, “Benchmarking the efficiency of Asian container ports”, African Journal of Business Management 5.4 (2011), 1397-1407. Read article.
Singh, G., E. Wong Sek Khin & Z. Fereidoon, “Total Quality Management in the stock exchange: A case study”, African Journal of Business Management 4.12 (2010), 2450-8. Read article.
Singh, G. & L. Lixia, “Wavelet perspective of time varying dynamic of Chinese, Indian and other major markets”, Investment Management and Financial Innovations 7.2 (2010).
Singh, G., “A review of optimal capital structure determinant of selected ASEAN countries”, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics 47 (Sep. 2010).
Singh, G., E.S.K. Wong & J.Y. Folk, “The subprime mortgage reforms: the case of the US market”, Research in Applied Economics 1.1 (2009). Read article.
Singh, G. & S. Munisamy, “A cross country comparison of banking efficiency: Asia Pacific Banks”, International Review of Business Research Papers 4.3 (2008), 73-95. Read article.
Singh, G. “Would its past reflect its future performance: Indian Banks?”, The Business Review, Cambridge 10.2 (2008), 229-36.
Singh, G., S. Munisamy & A.R. Ibrahim, “Technical efficiencies of Malaysian commercial banks: two stage approach”, Malaysian Journal of Science 26 (2007), 111-24.
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