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| Qualification: | Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Malaya ( Applied Finance ) Master of Applied Statistics, Universiti Malaya Bachelor of Economics (Hons), Universiti Malaya ( Applied Statistics ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
You-How Go is an Associate Professor at the Teh Hong Piow Faculty of Business and Finance (THP FBF), Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He holds a doctoral degree in Applied Finance from Universiti Malaya, following his Master of Applied Statistics and Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the same university. He was the Cluster Head of Quantitative Studies for Department Curriculum Development Committee of FBF (2015-2018) and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology (2025-2026). He currently serves as the Head of Programme (Doctor of Philosophy (Economics)) of the THP FBFand Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology.. Apart from lecturing Quantitative Techniques, Econometrics, Times Series Analysis, Research Methods, and Malaysian Economy at THP FBF since 2008, he was invited to teach postgraduate students in Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods.
He has supervised students in economics and finance. To date, he has successfully supervised two master students to completion, whereas two students are progressing under Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. He actively serves as an internal examiner for postgraduate research and a mentor for teaching research methods, advancing excellence in education and impactful research. For example, he has extensively used statistical packages for the teaching of quantitative research method, quantitative techniques, econometrics, and time series analysis. In addition to teaching, he has been invited to conduct the guest lectures, presentations, and PhD seminars for postgraduate students on volatility analysis, quantitative research method, and survey literature in Universiti Malaya and Swinburne University of Technology.
His pioneering research work on palm oil sustainability provides a wide range of crude palm oil futures in terms of informational efficiency and hedging effectiveness. In particular, his paper “What do we know about informational efficiency? Three puzzles and the new direction forward” (Journal of Economic Surveys (SSCI-Q1, ABDC-A ranked), 2023) was the first survey paper on informational efficiency, introducing avenues to explore contentious issues in market efficiency from the perspective of price-volume and spot-futures relations. He has published journal articles in the context of crude palm oil trading that provide new insights into market efficiency and spot-futures relation. As recognized by ScholarGPS in 2024, his research work is ranked as the top 5% in Palm Oil area. Subsequently, his paper "Mapping palm oil research to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from a bibliometric analysis of the literature and future directions" published in the Journal of Economic Surveys (a leading international economics journal) in 2026, providing the standard reference in the field of palm oil sustainability.
While the prime focus of his research is on palm oil trading, he has also researched different aspects of environmental economics at both the global and regional levels. He has published extensively as a senior author in mainstream economics, finance, and environment journals, including Resources Policy (SSCI-Q1), Journal of Commodity Markets (SSCI-Q1, ABDC-A ranked), Agricultural Economics (SSCI-Q3), The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (SSCI-Q2), The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development (SSCI-Q3), Environmental Science and Pollution Research (SCI & SCIE-Q2), Energy & Environment (SSCI-Q3), Journal of Futures Markets (SSCI-Q2, ABDC-A ranked), Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (SSCI-Q3), and Environment, Development and Sustainability (SCIE-Q2).
For research grants, he has completed external grants from the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As one of collaborators, he has completed the project “New village master plan review: Categorizing new villages” under Prime Minister's Office of Malaysia in 2014 and the book project “Statistics in practice” under Universiti Malaya Research Grant (UMRG) Programme Phase in 2016. From 2018 to 2020, he has managed to complete internal grants from UTAR with the total amount of RM65,900.
Aside from his active research, he was the Chair of R&D Advisory Board of Asian Entrepreneurs Academy (November 2017- November 2020) and the Associate Editor of the Capital Markets Review (2025-2026). At present, he is the life member of Malaysian Finance Association and Malaysian Economic Association.