Venus Khim-Sen Liew Universiti Malaysia Sabah   Labuan School of International Business and Finance Universiti Malaysia Sabah Jalan Sungai Pagar, Labuan, 87000 Malaysia   venusliew@yahoo.com, venusliew@ums.edu.my   http://www.geocities.com/venusliewks/index.html   Biographical Sketch: Venus Khim-Sen Liew, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Courses taught: Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Financial Economics, Financial Modelling, Management Science and Quantitative Analysis, Advance Statistics and Mathematical Economics. Research areas: applications of modeling (linear and nonlinear), forecasting and bootstrapping procedures in the foreign and stock exchange markets. Published more than 40 articles in international journals such as Economics Bulletin, Applied Economics, Economics Letters, and Open Economic Review. Reviewed manuscripts for various international journals including Economic Modellig, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Quantitative Finance, Economics Letters and Physica A. Managing Editor of the Labuan Bulletin of International Business and Finance, and the English and Malay Editor of Munich Personal RePEc Archive. Author of the book entitled "Monetary Models of Exchange Rate: Nonlinearity Matters".   Primary Research Focus: Nonlinear, modeling, forecasting, bootstrapping, foreign and stock exchange markets.   JEL Areas: F3 : International Finance: General C5 : Econometric Modeling: General