IDENTIFYING TRENDS, SPEARHEADING RESEARCH

ITI aims to be a leading centre for applied research into trends and developments in international trading with a distinctive Asian focus, by creating significant impact and practical application to the industry. ITI invites submissions of research proposals and awards research grants through two research funding cycles a year in April and October. Research proposals are evaluated by the ITI Research Sub-Committee and published results will be shared via various channels such as public forums and/or research reports. We also invite global firms to be our partners in commissioned projects or as participants in collaborated research for optimal research results and impact.

Invitations for submission of research proposals will be announced on our website.

Please contact us for more information regarding ITI research projects.

Past research

“Designing the Market Game for a Commodity Trading Simulation”

Assistant Professor Cheng Shih-Fen from SMU's School of Information Systems worked with the ITI on a trading simulation game to benefit students who attended the non-credit Oil Trading course. In this paper, Assistant Professor Cheng proposes to design a market game that can be used in modeling and studying commodity trading scenarios, as well as used in capturing human traders' behaviors.