Naziruddin Abdullah

Professor, Department of Business Administration
Acting Assistant Provost of Administration & Finance Division

PhD	:	1997, Economics, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Masters	:	1987, M.Phil. University of Glasgow , UK
	:	1995, M.Sc. University of Tsukuba, Japan
Bachelor	:	1984, University of Malaya, Malaysia

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Research

Economic growth and productivity are the two major areas that I’m working on currently

Selected Publications

------------, Yoshimi Kuroda and Yuji Kubo, The Impact of a Price-Support Program on Farm Tenancy Patterns, Income Adjustments and Market Intervention: The Case of Malaysian Rice Farming, Asian Economic Journal, vol.11, no.4, 1997.

-------------, and M. Shabri Abd. Majid, Real Stock Prices and the Long-run Money Demand Function in Malaysia: Error Correction Approach, Gadjahmada International Journal of Business, vol.6, no.2, 2004.

----------------, A Further Note on the Mathematical Derivation of TFP Sources, IIUM Journal of Economics and Management, vol.12, no.2, 2004.

----------------, Measurement of Total Factor Productivity for the Malaysian Rice Sector, IIUM Journal of Economics and Management, vol.5, no.2, 1997.

----------------, The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty and Threat to Global Stability, (A Book Review Article), IIUM Journal of Economics and Management, vol.13, no.1, 2005.

Abdullah, N., et al., TFP as Asian Economies’ Source of Growth: Past Evidences, Measurement Controversies and Recent Findings, Jurnal Produktiviti, vol.21, no.1, 2005.

Abdullah, N., et al., Efficiency of Islamic Banking in Malaysia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach, The Journal of Economic Cooperation Among Islamic Countries, vol.27, no.2, (pp.37-70), 2006.

Hamim Syahrum Ahmad Mokhtar, Naziruddin Abdullah and Syed Musa Al-Habshi, Efficiency and Competition of Islamic Banking in Malaysia, Journal of Humanomics (Forthcoming, 2008)

Honors/Awards

Monbusho Scholarship (Ministry of Science and Education, Government of Japan), 1991-96

Tun Razak Award for Best Written Article on Malaysian Economy, 1993

Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 2002

Kuroda, Y., and Naziruddin Abdullah, Impacts of Set-Aside and R&E Policies on Agricultural Productivity in Japan, 1965-97, Japan Journal of Rural Economics, vol.5, pp.12-35, 2003.This paper has been awarded the “Best Paper of the Year 2003”

Contact Details

Address: Faculty of Business
                   Department of Business Administrtation
                   P.O. BOX: 38772
                   ALHOSN University,
                   Abu Dhabi, UAE