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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
  • Applied Economics

Current research area

  • Tourism Demand Modelling and Forecasting
  • Domestic Tourism Demand

Recent research grants

Recent publications

Refereed journal articles

  • Yap, G. (in press, 26 September 2012). The Impacts of exchange rates on Australia’s domestic and outbound travel markets, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.
  • Bahn, S., Barratt-Pugh, L. & Yap, G. (in press, June 2012). The employment of skilled migrants in temporray 457 visas in Australia: emerging issues, Labour and Industry.
  • Yap, G. (2011). A panel cointegration analysis of economic integration and tourism exports In ASEAN countries, International Journal of Business Studies, 19(4), 91-107. 
  • Yap, G. & Allen, D. (2011). Investigating other factors influencing Australian domestic tourism demand, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 81 (7), 1365-1374.  
  • Allen, D., Yap, G., & Shareef, R. (2009). Modelling interstate tourism demand in Australia: A cointegration approach, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 79(9), 2733- 2740. 
  • Yap, G. (2009). Modelling Australian domestic tourism demand: A dynamic panel data approach, Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, 1 (1), 1-11. 

Conference papers in proceeding

  • Bahn, S., Barratt-Pugh, L. & Yap, G. (2013). “Workers on temporary 457 visas: Challenges they face when working on Western Australian resources sector”, Proceedings of the AIRAANZ 2013 conference, accepted on 19 October 2012.
  • Yap, G. (2011). Examining the effects of exchange rates on Australian domestic tourism demand: A panel generalized least squares approach. Proceedings of the 19th IMACS World Congress – MODSIM11 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Perth, Australia: MODSIM.
  • Yap, G. (2011). Modelling the risk of banking system instability in Indonesia using a cross-sectional dependence panel data model. Proceedings of the 19th IMACS World Congress – MODSIM11 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Perth, Australia: MODSIM.
  • Cheung, Y. H. & Yap, G. (2011). Bootstrapping Australian inbound tourism. Proceedings of the 19th IMACS World Congress – MODSIM11 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Perth, Australia: MODSIM.
  • 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. & 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. & 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.

Reports