Hooi hooi Lean Universiti Sains Malaysia   School of Social Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia USM, Penang 11800 Malaysia   learnmy@gmail.com   https://hooilean.wordpress.com/   Biographical Sketch: Dr. Hooi Hooi Lean is currently a senior lecturer with the School of Social Sciences (Economics Program), Universiti Sains Malaysia. She obtained her Honors Bachelor Degree of Economics majoring in Statistics from University Malaya, Master of Science (Statistics) from Universiti Sains Malaysia and PhD (Economics) from the National University of Singapore. She served as a post-doctoral visiting scholar to the Department of Economics at Monash University, Australia. Dr. Lean is an active researcher. She has written extensively and published her research in many reputed international journals such as Economics Letters, Applied Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation and Tourism Economics. She has also provided consultancy work to the private sector, government agencies and associations.   Primary Research Focus: stochastics dominance   JEL Areas: G3 : Corporate Finance and Governance: General O5 : Economywide Country Studies: General