Jing Lian Suah

Senior economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Research Papers

Economics

Debt Amplifies the Contractionary Effects of Uncertainty Shocks: Cross-Country and Firm-Level Empirics

Jing Lian Suah (2025)

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research Working Paper No. 08/2025

A pseudo-panel analysis of marginal propensity to consume from transfers along the income distribution in Malaysia

Jing Lian Suah (2024)

Bank Negara Malaysia Working Paper WP1/2024

The 'plucking' model of the unemployment rate floor: Cross-country estimates and empirics

Jing Lian Suah (2024)

Bank for International Settlements Working Paper 1159

An Empirical Take on the 'Plucking' Model

Jing Lian Suah (2023)

Bank Negara Malaysia Working Paper WP3/2023

Impact of 2021 Floods on Spending: An Event Study Using Daily State-Level Card Transactions and Mobility Data

Jing Lian Suah (2023)

Bank Negara Malaysia Working Paper WP2/2023

An Application of the Forecast-Based Interrupted Time Series Methodology to Evaluate Policy Impact Using Daily Data: The Impact of COVID-19 Cash Handouts on Daily Spending

Jing Lian Suah (2023)

Bank Negara Malaysia Working Paper WP1/2023

Lives and Livelihood, Not Quite a Trade-Off: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 Mortality on Real GDP

Jing Lian Suah (2023)

medRxiv

Impact of uncertainty and exchange rate shocks: Theory and global empirics

Jing Lian Suah (2022)

Journal of Asian Economics

Cash, and "Drops": Boosting Vaccine Registrations

Jing Lian Suah (2021)

MPRA Working Paper

Veiled Expectations: The Heterogeneous Impact of Exchange Rate Shocks at the Sectoral-Level

Jing Lian Suah (2020)

MPRA Working Paper

Crises and Policy: COVID-19 Truly is Different

Jing Lian Suah (2020)

Bank Negara Malaysia 1Q 2020 Quarterly Economic Bulletin

Public health and epidemiology

Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines among children 6-11 years against hospitalization during Omicron predominance in Malaysia

Jing Lian Suah, Vivek Jason Jayaraj, Masliyana Husin, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Azahadi Omar, Sanjay Rampal, Sheamini Sivasampu (2024)

Scientific Reports

How Important Are Study Designs? A Simulation Assessment of Vaccine Effectiveness Estimation Bias with Time-Varying Vaccine Coverage, and Heterogeneous Testing and Baseline Attack Rates

Jing Lian Suah, Naor Bar-Zeev, Maria Deloria Knoll (2022)

medRxiv

Real-world effectiveness of homologous and heterologous BNT162b2, CoronaVac, and AZD1222 booster vaccination against Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection

Jing Lian Suah, Boon Hwa Tng, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Masliyana Husin, Thevesh Thevananthan, Kalaiarasu M Peariasamy, Sheamini Sivasampu (2022)

Emerging microbes & infections

SARS-CoV-2 in Malaysia: A surge of reinfection during the predominantly Omicron period

Su Lan Yang, Jing Lian Suah, Hoon Shien Teh, Masliyana Husin, Wen Yea Hwong (2022)

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

Expert review on global real-world vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2

Sunate Chuenkitmongkol, Rontgene Solante, Erlina Burhan, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Nan-Chang Chiu, Dung Do-Van, Masliyana Husin, Kao-Pin Hwang, Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul, Prasad S. Kulkarni, Ping-Ing Lee, Rommel Crisenio Lobo, Cao Huu Nghia, Anna Ong-Lim, Sheamini Sivasampu, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Guy Thwaites, Jing Lian Suah, SEA Vaccine Effectiveness Expert Working Group (2022)

Expert Review of Vaccines

Real-world effectiveness of BNT162b2 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 infection among adolescents (12 to 17-year-olds) in Malaysia

Jing Lian Suah, Masliyana Husin, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Thevesh Thevananthan, Boon Hwa Tng, Kalaiarasu M Peariasamy, Sheamini Sivasampu (2022)

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Waning COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness for BNT162b2 and CoronaVac in Malaysia: an observational study

Jing Lian Suah, Masliyana Husin, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Boon Hwa Tng, Thevesh Thevananthan, Ee Vien Low, Maheshwara Rao Appannan, Faizah Muhamad Zin, Shahanizan Mohd Zin, Hazlina Yahaya, Kalaiarasu M Peariasamy, Sheamini Sivasampu (2022)

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

PICK-ing Malaysia's epidemic apart: effectiveness of a diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio

Jing Lian Suah, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Su Miin Ong, Masliyana Husin, Boon Hwa Tng, Sheamini Sivasampu, Thevesh Thevananthan, Maheshwara Rao Appannan, Faizah Muhamad Zin, Shahanizan Mohd Zin, Hazlina Yahaya, Norhayati Rusli, Mohd Fikri Ujang, Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim, Noor Hisham Abdullah, Kalaiarasu M Peariasamy (2021)

Vaccines

Assessment of Heterologous and Homologous Boosting With Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine at 3 Months Compared With Homologous Boosting of BNT162b2 at 6 Months

Ee Vien Low, Jing Lian Suah, Peter Seah Keng Tok, Masliyana Husin, Boon Hwa Tng, Thevesh Thevananthan, Maheshwara Rao Appannan, Hazlina Yahaya, Faizah Muhamad Zin, Shahanizan Mohd Zin, Sheamini Sivasampu, Kalaiarasu M Peariasamy (2022)

JAMA Network Open

Python Packages

paneleventstudy

Implements the panel (and single entity) event study models, covering the naive two-way fixed effects implementation, and the interaction-weighted implementation from Sun and Abraham (2021).

localprojections

Implements the local projections models for single entity time series, and panel / longitudinal data settings, due to Jorda (2005).