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 an annual research funding cycle. 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.

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Past research

"Supply Management in Multi-Product Firms with Fixed Proportions Technology"
(21 April 2011)
Onur Boyabatl,
Lee Kong Chian School of Business,
Singapore Management University,
This paper is supported by the International Trading Institute

"An Analysis of Extreme Price Shocks and Illiquidity Among Systematic Trend Followers"
(15 June 2010)
Annie Koh, Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Bernard Lee, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics
Shih-Fen Cheng, School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
This paper is supported by the International Trading Institute.

ITI Research Newsletter - May 2009

“Designing the Market Game for a Commodity Trading Simulation”
Assistant Professor Cheng Shih-Fen of School of Information Systems, SMU 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. This research is supported by the International Trading Institute and used to develop a trading simulation game for teaching purposes at SMU.