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Dr Ghialy Yap

Dr Ghialy Yap

Dr Ghialy Yap

Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5262  
Email: c.yap@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.342  

 

Current teaching:

  • ECF2380 - Business Economics II;
  • ECF4161/5116 – Econometrics V.

Background

Dr Ghialy is an economics lecturer with the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics. She obtained her PhD, with her thesis research examining the factors that influence domestic tourism demand in Australia. Her main research strengths include tourism demand modelling and forecasting, as well as economics empirical research using time-series and panel data econometrics.

Staff qualifications

  • PhD (ECU);
  • MEcon (UWA);
  • GradDip Econ (UWA);
  • BCom (UWA).

Research

Research interest:

  • Tourism Research;
  • Applied econometrics; and
  • Applied Economics.

Current research area:

  • Tourism Demand Modelling and Forecasting; and
  • Domestic Tourism Demand. 

Recent research grants: 

Recent publications

Refereed journal articles:

  • Yap, G. and Allen, D. (2010). Investigating other factors influencing Australian domestic tourism demand. (To be appeared in "Mathematics and Computers in Simulation)".
  • G. Yap (2009), “Modelling domestic tourism demand in Australia: A dynamic panel data approach”, Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, 1(1), 1-11.
  • Allen, D., Yap, G., and Shareef, R. (2009), “Modelling interstate tourism demand in Australia: A cointegration analysis”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 79(9), 2733- 2740.

Conference papers in proceeding:

  • Yap, G. (2010), “Examining the existence of long-run relationships between East Asian economic integration and ASEAN tourism exports”, Proceedings of the Globalization, Monetary Integration and Exchange Rate Regimes in East Asia Conference, Perth, 22-23 November 2010. 
  • Gerrans, P. and Yap, G. (2010), “Retirement savings investment strategy choices: Naive or Sophisticated?”, Proceedings of the 15th Australian Centre for Financial Studies – Finsia Banking and Finance Conference, Melbourne, 2010.
  • Allen, D. and Yap, G. (2009), “Modelling Australian domestic tourism demand: A panel data approach”, In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8.
  • Yap, G. (2008), “Intrastate and interstate tourism demand in Australia: An empirical analysis”, In CAUTHE, Proceedings of the 18th Annual CAUTHE Conference, Richardson, S., Fredline, L., Ternel, M., (Eds.) CD-ROM, Griffith University, Gold Coast. ISBN: 978-1-921291-33-3.
  • Yap, G. (2008), “Tourism forecasting using conditional volatility models”, In CAUTHE, Proceedings of the 18th Annual CAUTHE Conference, Richardson, S., Fredline, L., Ternel, M., (Eds.) CD-ROM, Griffith University, Gold Coast. ISBN: 978-1-921291-33-3.
  • Yap. G. (2007), “Uncertainty in the demand for Australian tourism”, Proceedings of the 17th Annual CAUTHE Conference, McDonnell, I., Grabowski, S., March, R., (Eds.) CD-ROM, University of Technology, Sydney. ISBN: 978-0-646-46998-0.